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| The gallery is comprised of images of Mesoamerica from space. Click on the images for more information.
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| Mountain Pine Ridge Burned Areas |
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This LandSat 7 data, acquired for central Belize on Friday May 11, 2007, is extremely clear. (These four images are all in false color to emphasize the various vegetation types – band 5-4-3 combination.) |
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Differencing the May 11 image with an earlier March 21, 2006 image, the assessment indicates that just over 18,000 acres were severely burned. The scars match up well with the detected hotspots data from MODIS. |
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In comparison with the May 2007 imagery, the image above depicts what the landscape looked like a year earlier on March 21, 2006. Note that not all of the purple areas in the sets of imagery are actually burn scars. The green is broadleaf, and the purple areas are low/sparse vegetation (e.g. savannas), while the bright pink areas are road surfaces and exposed soil. |
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Interestingly enough, in the year 2000 around the emergence of the bark beetle infestation, there were also huge fires in the Pine Ridge, with the imagery showing the sources of plumes which stretched miles and miles northward. |
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IKONOS image of a Guatemalan bajos, lowland areas, where rainwater accumulates, which archaeologists suspect ancient Mayans used for irrigating their crops. Earth Observatory
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Eye of Hurricane Wilma approaches the northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. Image from NASA's QuikScat satellite.
Planetary Photojournal
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Tropical storm Gamma floods Central America unleashing heavy rain on Honduras. Image collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring
Mission (TRMM) satellite. Earth Observatory
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El Salvador's San Miguel volcano ISS006-E-51437. Image courtesy of Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
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The Mosquito Coast, a rounded point of land that juts out into the Caribbean Sea from the Central American isthmus. Earth Observatory
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Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico from MODIS.
Visible Earth |
Landsat images show the widespread conversion of natural mangrove swamps to shrimp farms along the Pacific coast of Honduras. Earth Observatory
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Nicaragua channels and coastal agriculture ISS005-E-17177. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
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Chetumal Bay lies on the border between Mexico and Belize, SS001-ESC-5317. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Visible Earth |
In this oblique westward-looking SeaWiFS image, Honduras and Nicaragua are in the foreground
and El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico are in the background. Visible Earth
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True-color image of Popocatepetl acquired on January 4, 1999, by the Enhanced Thematic
Mapper Plus (ETM+) aboard NASA's Landsat 7 satellite. Visible Earth
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Honduras Rio Lempa, Pt. San Juan STS069-718-86. Image courtesy of Image Science & Analysis
Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth |
Tropical Storm Larry October 2, 2003, by the
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS).
Earth
Observatory |
Anaglyph of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico from
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
Planetary
Photojournal |
Effect of the Tehuano winds on the ocean’s
plant life on December 9, 2003 from SeaWiFS.
Earth Observatory |
Cancun from ASTER September 2000.
Our
Earth as Art |
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East Composites/Climatology for Central
America from GOES. CIRA |
Tropical Cyclone ALMA, May 29, 2002 from
TRMM. Visible
Earth |
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Campeche comprises much of the western
half of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula from ASTER. Our
Earth as Art |
Hurricane Mitch approaching Honduras on
1998 October 26, 13:15 UT. VRSD |
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Eruption of San Cristobal in Nicaragua
from MODIS. Visible
Earth |
Perspective View with Landsat Overlay,
Lakes Managua and Nicaragua from Landsat/Space Shuttle. Planetary
Photojournal |
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Honduras and Nicaragua, February 26, 2000
from MISR. Atmospheric
Sciences Data Center |
Mexico and Guatemala from MISR. Atmospheric
Sciences Data Center |
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Panama: Isthmus that Changed the World
from SRTM. Earth
Observatory |
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Perspective View with Landsat Overlay,
Costa Rica from Landsat/SRTM. Planetary
Photojournal |
Pollution from Fires in Central America
from Terra. Earth
Observatory |
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Nicaraguan volcanoes, February 26, 2000.
San Cristobal volcano erupted the previous day. From MISR.
Atmospheric
Sciences Data Center |
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Rainforests of Panama
from Landsat 7. Earth
Observatory |
Space Radar Image of the Yucatan Impact
Crater Site from the Space Shuttle. Planetary
Photojournal |
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Perspective View with Color-Coded Shaded
Relief, Central Panama from SRTM. Planetary
Photojournal |
Smoke in Central America
from SeaWiFS. Visible
Earth |
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Smoke Billows from Fires in the Yucatan
from MODIS. Earth
Observatory |
Perspective View with Landsat Overlay,
San Jose, Costa Rica from SRTM. Planetary
Photojournal |
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Yucatan Peninsula and Gulf of Honduras
from MODIS. Visible
Earth |
Space Radar Image of Ruiz Volcano, Colombia
from the Space Shuttle. Planetary
Photojournal |
Central America
from NASA/GSFC and ORBIMAGE. GSFC |
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