Braided River in Tibet Redraws Its Channels
This Landsat time series shows the channels of Tibet’s Yarlung Zangbo river shifting substantially from year to year due to high sediment discharge from nearby steep mountains. Flooding events frequently remobilize the steady accumulation of loose, coarse sediment, preventing vegetation from becoming established on the sandbars.
A natural-color Landsat time series of the Yarlung Zangbo River from 1988 to 2025 revealing the shapeshifting nature of the river as it flows across the Tibetan Plateau.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Visualizer
- Ross K. Walter (SSAI)
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[Landsat]
ID: 47
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This page was originally published on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM EDT.