California Breathing, 2017 in Two Counties

Imperial County (left) & Sutter County (right), California over 2017. Natural color time-lapses created from Landsat-8 data courtesy of US Geological Survey.

Time-lapse satellite imagery of two agricultural Californian counties over 2017 in natural color.

Left: Imperial County in southeastern California next to the Salton Sea.

Right: Sutter County in northern California’s Sacramento Valley.

A contrast of landscape, geography, and childhood asthma rates:

ED Visits due to Asthma per 10,000 Children and Adolescents by county, 2016 (most recent data available). Map & data courtesy of Let’s Get Healthy California

License, Sources, and Technical Notes:

• First two animated GIFs licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
• Landsat-8 bands combination: 4 (red), 3 (green), 2 (blue)
• Source GeoTiff files from Google Cloud Public Datasets:
  Imperial:
  ‘LC08_L1TP_039037_20170118_20170218_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_039037_20170307_20170317_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_039037_20170526_20170615_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_039037_20170729_20170811_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_039037_20170915_20170928_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_039037_20171118_20171205_01_T1’,
  Sutter:
  ‘LC08_L1TP_044033_20170121_20170218_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_044033_20170427_20170515_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_044033_20170614_20170628_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_044033_20170817_20170826_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_044033_20171004_20171014_01_T1’,
  ‘LC08_L1TP_044033_20171207_20171223_01_T1’,
• Made in Python with Jupyter notebooks, geojson.io, rasterio, ezgif.com