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Flooded Rice Fields in Louisiana

The low-lying alluvial plain of the Mississippi River Valley is home to much of the nation’s rice farms.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and cropland data from USDA NASS. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published March 10, 2023
Data acquired February 3, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Sentinel-2
Collection:
Food and Agriculture