Image:ShrimpFarming Honduras L7 1987-99.jpg

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Summary

Description

Two false-colour Landsat images showing the growth of the w:shrimp farming industry in Honduras from 1987 to 1999 and the corresponding removal of mangrove swamps.
Source

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17204
Date

1987, 1999
Author

Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the University of Maryland's Global Land Cover Facility.
Permission

US government, public domain
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