|
Home »
Satellite Images »
Beginner's Guide to Landsat Images » Forests, Mountains and Burned Areas
Beginner's Guide to Forests, Mountains and Burned Areas on
Landsat GeoCover Satellite Images
Forests typically appear as a lush green.
Mountains are easy to identify because of their irregular topography and shaded relief. Shown below are portions of the rugged Sawatch Mountain Range of Colorado on the left and the folded Appalachian Mountain Range on the right.
Forest Fire Areas are areas that have been burned by recent forest fires and not yet revegetated are generally shown in shades of bright red.
|
|
|
Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming, U.S.A. |
|
Forested area in western North Carolina / northern Georgia, U.S.A. |
|
The pink "fish bone" pattern shows deforestation of the Amazon in Rondonia, Brazil. |
|
Forest fire area in southwestern Colorado, U.S.A. |
|
Forest fire area in South Dakota, U.S.A. |
|
San Juan Mountains in Colorado, U.S.A. |
|
The folded Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
|
Caucasus Mountains, along the border of Russia and Georgia. |
| Copyright information: Data used to produce the image above was provided by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Scientific Data Purchase Program and produced, under NASA contract, by Earth Satellite Corporation. Thank you to those agencies for use of the data. The Landsat image was composed by Angela King and is property of geology.com. Use of any geology.com image without written permission is prohibited. |
|
|
|
| 
