Earth  ID: 3116

Mount St. Helens Before, During, and After (WMS)

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on March 2, 2005
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, devastating more than 150 square miles of forest in southwestern Washington state. This animation shows Landsat images of the Mount St. Helens area in 1973, 1983, and 2000, illustrating the destruction and regrowth of the forest. The 1983 image clearly shows the new crater on the northern slope where the eruption occurred, the rivers and lakes covered with ash, and the regions of deforestation. The 2000 image, taken twenty years after the eruption, still shows the changed crater, but much of the devastated area is covered by new vegetation growth.
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Landsat imagery of Mount St. Helens before, during, and after the devastation from the eruption in 1980.

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A Landsat-1 image of the Mount St. Helens area taken September 15, 1973
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A Landsat-4 image of the Mount St. Helens area taken May 22, 1983
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A Landsat-7 image of the Mount St. Helens area taken September 25, 2000

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Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:
Landsat-1/MSS
1973/09/15
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Landsat-4/MSS
1983/05/22
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Landsat-7/ETM+
2000/09/25
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WMS

Keywords:
DLESE >> Forestry
DLESE >> Geology
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Natural hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Terrestrial Ecosystems >> Forests
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Habitat Conversion/Fragmentation >> Deforestation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Solid Earth >> Volcanoes >> Volcanic Ash/Dust
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