April 30, 2022 - North Carolina

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On April 28, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of
coastal North Carolina.

Sitting halfway between Florida and New York States, North Carolina’s
landscape is divided into three regions: the Mountains in the west, the
Piedmont in the center, and the eastern Coastal Plain (also known as
coastal tidewater). The broad, flat tidewater region is rich
agricultural land. With farmland making up about 8.4 million acres of
North Carolina’s land, and agribusiness providing 17.5 percent of total
jobs in the state, the size and numbers of the state’s 46,000 farms are
the largest in the expansive of the tidewater. North Carolina is the
number 1 producer of sweet potatoes in the United States, the number
two producer of turkeys, the third-ranking producer of hogs and pigs,
and produces a wide variety of other crops, including cucumbers,
peanuts, upland cotton, bell peppers, and burley tobacco. In this
spring-time image, agricultural cropland and fields appear light tan.

At the far eastern edge of the tidewater lies the Outer Banks, a chain
of narrow barrier islands that glisten with sandy beaches. These
islands sweep southward along the Atlantic Coast from the border with
Virginia in three long arcs that are divided by two capes, Cape
Hatteras and Cape Lookout. Roanoke Island, sitting just behind the
Atlantic Outer Banks, is the site of the first English settlement in
the New World, which was founded in 1585 and subsequently failed. In
1587 a second colony was settled, but that, too, disappeared by 1590.

Behind the Outer Banks, North Carolina’s land is filled with vast
marshlands and several large rivers, making this section of the United
States one of the wettest areas in the nation. The large Pamlico Sound
fills most of the area between the mainland and the Outer Banks, and
three of the larger rivers cutting into the mainland, from north to
south, are the Albemarle Sound, the Pamlico River, and the Neuse River.

Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 4/28/2022
Resolutions: 1km (149.5 KB), 500m (378.5 KB), 250m (864.2
KB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-04-30

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