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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.


Northwest Region
Green River from the Howard Hanson Dam to Auburn, WA - 2009-09-20

This Landsat 5 TM image shows the Green River and lake extents near the Howard Hanson Dam, east of Auburn, WA.

Green River from the Howard Hanson Dam to Auburn, WA - 2009-09-20
Green River and surrounding area near Auburn, WA - 2009-10-04

This image shows the Green River from the Howard Dam to Auburn, WA. The southern edge of Seattle can be seen in the upper left corner.

The larger Landsat 7 TM image is slightly over 3 MB.

Green River and surrounding area near Auburn, WA - 2009-10-04
Seattle and Tacoma, WA and surrounding area - 2009-10-04

This is the original high-resolution Landsat 7 TM image used for a closer look at the Howard Hanson Dam east of Auburn, WA. Mount Rainier can be seen amongst the clouds towards the bottom of the picture.

A larger georegistered Landsat TM image suitable for importing into a GIS can be found here (34 MB).

Seattle and Tacoma, WA and surrounding area - 2009-10-04


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