File:Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado.jpg
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English: This natural-colour image of the lower reaches of Big Thompson Canyon illustrates two of the three natural factors that contributed to the flood’s severity: steep terrain and sparse vegetation. Evergreen forests of Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine manage to grip some of the steep slopes, but in many places—most of the northern wall of the canyon, for example—there is little soil or vegetation to absorb or slow the flow of water. The steepness of the terrain is emphasized by the deep shadows that darken north- and north-west-facing slopes. Winter snow still dusts the mountainous landscape. |
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Source | NASA Earth Obseravatory |
Author | Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon |
This image was captured by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.
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Gauging Station
Cedar Cove
Big Thompson Canyon
Drake
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Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 1 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 1 dpi |
Data arrangement | planar format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 10:31, 19 April 2010 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |