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Black Belt Prairie - related image preview

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Black Belt Prairie

The crescent-shaped area of fertile, cultivated land stretches through parts of Mississippi and Alabama.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Black Belt Prairie.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Level 1 and Atmospheres Active Distribution System (LAADS) and Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE), and land cover data from the National Land Cover Database. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by JoVonn Hill/Mississippi State University.

Published June 21, 2018
Data acquired 2011 - 2018

Sources:: Landsat 5 > TM; Landsat 7 > ETM+; Terra > MODIS