[OC] Irrigation Expansion into the New Mexico Desert (1986 - 2021)Submitted by granger327 t3_xzuioy in dataisbeautiful
granger327 OP t1_irob53l wrote
This is derived from 30m resolution rasters of annual irrigated status as detected by IrrMapper, a system to automatically detect irrigation from Landsat satellite images. I read annual Irrmapper GeoTIFF of this area and accumulated them using rasterio and numpy, and wrote the cumulative images to a .gif with PIL.
mwebster745 t1_irpt4do wrote
Based on the map I'm guessing it's up north near where the animas and San Juan Rivera merge near Farmington NM. That would make that huge irritated area NAPI (Navajo Agricultural Products Inc) basically a massive farm owned by the Navajo nation. Just drove through there last week, very impressive.
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