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Blooming Lake Okeechobee

Nearly half of the lake was covered with blue-green algae in early July 2022.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and cyanobacteria data from the Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN). Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published July 15, 2022
Data acquired July 3, 2022

Sources:
Envisat
Landsat 8 > OLI
Sentinel-3
Collection:
Applied Sciences