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Alaska in Flux: Slumping Coastlines

Erosion is one of the major changes to the state’s landscape in recent decades.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NDVI and NDWI annual trend data courtesy of Neal Pastick. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 11, 2019
Data acquired January 1, 1984 - December 31, 2015

Sources:
Landsat 4
Landsat 5
Landsat 7
Landsat 8