These pictures should help you to visualize the environment in the file alaska86_subset2.img. Refer to the TM overview map for approximate areas in the pictures.
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 Terminus of the Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska. Note the bare rock that was recently covered by ice and different types (and ages) of vegetation in the background. You should be able to see the dirt streaks in the image data. |
 Avalanche scar on the mountain slope. Note the variation in the vegetation at different altitudes. |
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RGB = 321 (True Color) Image of the Juneau Icefield, Alaska Sept. 1986 Detail of the Lemon Creek Glacier (see below for an oblique aerial photograph)  |
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Looking up the Lemon Creek Glacier from a helicopter. The glacier on the right is the Ptarmigan Glacier. The boundary between the gray blue ice and the white snow is the snow line. The terminus is visible in the bottom right part of the image. Photo by J. Ramage. |
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