Earth  ID: 11028

Rebuilding Poplar Island

Released on June 28, 2012
Poplar Island is being rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using dredged mud from the Baltimore Harbor which lies about 30 miles (about 48 kilometers) north of the island.

Reconstruction of the island began in 1998 with the erection of dikes to contain the mud.

The growing island is a wildlife sanctuary, a hatchery for hundreds of diamondback terrapins and home to about 170 different species of birds including terns and bald eagles.

NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat. The USGS preserves the archive of Landsat images and distributes all of the 40-years of Landsat data free over the Internet.

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Starting in 1998, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began to rebuild Poplar Island, using dredged mud from the Baltimore Harbor which lies about 30 miles (about 48 kilometers) north of the island.

The growing island is a wildlife sanctuary, a hatchery for hundreds of diamondback terrapins and home to about 170 different species of birds including terns and bald eagles.

Landsat is a joint program of the USGS and NASA.

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Landsat's view of Poplar Island, MD, in 1997, before the reconstruction began.
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Landsat's view of Poplar Island, MD, in 2011, after 13 years of rebuilding the island using material dredged from Baltimore Harbor.

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Keywords:
SVS >> Chesapeake Bay
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Landsat
DLESE >> Physical oceanography
SVS >> Water
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans >> Coastal Processes >> Sea Level Rise
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0