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Building Up the Yellow River Delta

As sea level rises and the amount of sediment carried by the Yellow River declines, one of the world’s fastest changing deltas has seen rapid development.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Building Up the Yellow River Delta.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published April 6, 2021
Data acquired February 13, 1989 - October 24, 2020

Sources:: Landsat 4 > TM; Landsat 8 > OLI