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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

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7
Landsat 7 > ETM+