Mississippi Flooding 2011
The extent of the 2011 flooding is compared with the same locations in April 2010.
Satellite imagery of the 2011 flooding along the Mississippi River compared with imagery from 2010. Shows high resolution images from Landsat 5 of Cairo, Illinois, and Memphis, Tennessee.
To prevent flooding in Cairo, Illinois, the US Army Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile hole in the levee to let the waters flow into the New Madrid Floodway.
Near Memphis Tennessee, flood waters crested at 48 feet, only inches below the record high level of the 1937 floods.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Individual Landsat scenes were combined by Jesse Allen of the NASA Earth Observatory.
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
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- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
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