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Rice fields

Detailed Description

For more than 500 years, rice fields have been flooded routinely in the Po Valley in Italy. In the larger map, darker blue tones indicate where water covered the surface longest in 2018; the lighter tones of the rice fields show shorter times that water was present.

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.

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