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Data acquired September 8, 1980 2000 x 2000 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired September 8, 1980 1263 x 1264 6 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired May 23, 1989 4000 x 4000 4 MB - JPEG
Data acquired May 23, 1989 2526 x 2526 15 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired July 1, 2006 4000 x 4000 4 MB - JPEG
Data acquired July 1, 2006 2400 x 2400 15 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired September 8, 1980 - July 1, 2006 171 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired September 8, 1980 - July 1, 2006 JPEG
Data acquired September 8, 1980 - July 1, 2006 540 x 1059 JPEG
Beginning in 1932, Dutch engineers completed a dike across the Zuiderzee to create a freshwater lake. Engineers later used pumps to drain water from the area, creating expanses of usable land known as polders. These images show changes in the land cover in one such polder between 1980 and 2007.
NASA images created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.
Published August 3, 2008 Data acquired September 8, 1980 - July 1, 2006