San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking

Groundwater pumping in California has been causing land subsidence.

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NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel SAR data (2016) courtesy of Tom Farr and Cathleen Jones, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Alan Buis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Ted Thomas, California Department of Water Resources; edited by Mike Carlowicz.

Published March 5, 2017
Data acquired May 7, 2015 - September 10, 2016

Source:

Sentinel-1A