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Special Purpose Imagery Archive

The following are ad hoc-generated images for special projects, grouped by geographic region. Note: some of the linked images are large georeferenced JPG or TIFF files that have been compressed using the tar and gzip utilities.

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Full resolution Landsat imagery is available from USGS.
MODIS imagery is available from NASA.
Flood information is from NWS AHPS.


Midwest Region
Wabash River near Terre Haute, IN - 2013-04-30

This Landsat 7 image shows moderate flooding along the Wabash River from Terre Haute, IN down to Mt Carmel, IL. This is a false color composite that uses bands 5-4-3 as Red-Green-Blue. The LandsatLook scene is from path 22, rows 33 and 34. Additional XML data for GIS can be found here.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Wabash River near Terre Haute, IN - 2013-04-30
Wabash and Ohio Rivers near Mt Vernon, IN - 2013-04-30

This Landsat 7 image shows the moderate flooding along the Wabash River (flowing from the top) as it meets the Ohio River (flowing from the the upper right). This is a false color composite that uses bands 5-4-3 as Red-Green-Blue. The LandsatLook scene is from path 22, rows 33 and 34. Additional XML data for GIS can be found here.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Wabash and Ohio Rivers near Mt Vernon, IN - 2013-04-30
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at Cairo, MO - 2011-05-03

This Landsat 5 image shows the flooding around the confluence of the Ohio River (flowing from the upper right) and the Mississippi River (flowing from the left). This is a false color composite that uses bands 5-4-3 as Red-Green-Blue. The scene used was L5022034_03420110503.

Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at Cairo, MO - 2011-05-03
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Madrid, MO - 2011-05-03

This Landsat 5 image shows the flooding around the confluence of the Ohio River (flowing from the upper right) and the Mississippi River (flowing from the upper left), continuing on down the Mississippi River past New Madrid, MO. This is a false color composite that uses bands 5-4-3 as Red-Green-Blue. The scenes used were L5022034_03420110503 and L5022035_03520110503.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Madrid, MO - 2011-05-03
Ohio and Wabash Rivers near Mt Vernon, IN - 2011-05-03

This Landsat 5 image shows the flooding around the confluence of the Wabash River (flowing from the top) and the Ohio River (flowing from the right). This is a false color composite that uses bands 5-4-3 as Red-Green-Blue. The scene used was L5022034_03420110503.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Ohio and Wabash Rivers near Mt Vernon, IN - 2011-05-03
Wabash River at Terre Haute, IN - 2010-05-24

This Landsat 5 image is a false color composite using TM bands 7-5-3 as Red-Green-Blue.

The latest river stage at Terre Haute is 16.41 ft at 2:00 PM on 5/24. Flood stage is 14.0 ft.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Wabash River at Terre Haute, IN - 2010-05-24
Red River at Stanton, KY - 2010-05-03

This Landsat 7 image is a false color composite using TM bands 4-5-1 as Red-Green-Blue. This is displayed at 15 meter resolution, double the usual. The coloring derived from the 30 meter band combination has been applied to the panchromatic TM band 8. Mechanical problems onboard LandSAT-7 leaves gaps in the data, but the increased spatial resolution makes the image worthwhile.


In comparison, below is an image of a more normal river extent via Google Maps.


Stanton, KY

There is more serious flooding not visible just to the west of this satellite image, in Frankfort, Boston, and Lockport.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Red River at Stanton, KY - 2010-05-03
Kentucky River at Ravenna, KY - 2010-05-03

This Landsat 7 image is a false color composite using TM bands 3-2-1 as Red-Green-Blue. The river overlay is part of the NHD (National Hydrography Database), obtained online from the Ketucky Geologic Survey.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Kentucky River at Ravenna, KY - 2010-05-03
Outline of Nashville, TN flooding - 2010-05-04

This is a rough outline of the flooding in Nashville, TN derived from the MODIS TERRA image from 05/03/2010. The outline is superimposed over the NAIP orthophoto.

The yellow outline is flooding on 5/3, while the blue outline is flooding on 5/4.

Orthophoto images are available from Tennessee Spatial Data Server

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Outline of Nashville, TN flooding - 2010-05-04
Terra image of Nashville, TN flooding - 2010-05-04

This is a rough outline of the flooding in Nashville, TN derived from the MODIS TERRA image from 05/03/2010.

The yellow outline is flooding on 5/3, while the blue outline is flooding on 5/4.

This scene is GIS-ready with the additional .jgw file.

Terra image of Nashville, TN flooding - 2010-05-04

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