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English: Natural-colour image of the Morganza Floodway. The image was acquired at 11:20 a.m. Central Daylight Time, one day after the spillway was partially opened. The white pixels near the spillway are whitewater churned up by the flow through the gates. Square and quadrilateral shapes on the landscape show areas that were cleared for farming or perhaps shaped for flood control earthworks. Water ranges in colors of olive, tan, black, and gray, reflecting the different loads of muddy sediment churned up from the bottom; darker areas might also reflect deeper water. Past the spillway, water is more readily apparent along the levee on the south and east side of the floodway, suggesting that there are fewer trees and perhaps lower elevations in those areas.
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Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon
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Image captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.

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