Green greenery in the wetlands around Little Lake turned to open water.Potter discovered that following Ida, more than 680 square kilometers of wetlands in Barataria Basin and Terrebonne Basin (west of Barataria Bay) changed into open water. The map below shows where wetlands in southern Louisiana disappeared after Ida, as computed by Potter comparing Landsat information from June 2021 to September 2021. Land loss occurred along most of the southern-facing shorelines of the Barataria Basin.Map showing where wetlands in southern Louisiana vanished after Ida, as calculated by comparing Landsat data from June 2021 to September 2021.
“Wetlands in southern Louisiana have taken a real whipping from cyclones in current years,” said Chris Potter, an ecologist at NASAs Ames Research. Green greenery in the wetlands around Little Lake turned to open water.Potter discovered that following Ida, more than 680 square kilometers of wetlands in Barataria Basin and Terrebonne Basin (west of Barataria Bay) changed into open water. The map listed below shows where wetlands in southern Louisiana disappeared after Ida, as calculated by Potter comparing Landsat information from June 2021 to September 2021. Land loss took place along most of the southern-facing shorelines of the Barataria Basin.Map revealing where wetlands in southern Louisiana disappeared after Ida, as determined by comparing Landsat information from June 2021 to September 2021. Potter found that, in addition to tropical storms, oil pollution left behind from the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 contributed to wetland deterioration in Barataria Basin.
