Bear Lake Satellite Image

Document Type

Map

Publication Date

11-1-2023

Abstract

As a contribution to the Utah as Art collection created by UtahView, a member of the AmericaView consortium (https://americaview.org/), this image of Bear Lake, Utah is intended to act as an educational resource to increase interest in the contributions of remote sensing satellites as an aid to Earth resource management. Located in the Bear Lake valley and sitting astride the Utah-Idaho border, Bear Lake is a natural freshwater lake with a turquoise-blue color covering approximately 110 square miles. The striking blue color of the lake is due to suspended calcium carbonate particles derived from local limestone deposits that reflect and intensify the natural blue color of water. Historically, the lake was a resource for Indigenous people of the Shoshone, Bannock, and Ute tribes. In 1827 and 1828 the area hosted the “Rocky Mountain Man Rendezvous”. Today the lake is a popular destination for tourists which has fueled much of the economic growth in the area. This is a mosaic of two images captured between October 12th and 17th of 2022, by the Multispectral Imager onboard the European Space Agency Sentinel-2A satellite. The image date coincides with the height of Fall colors with maples a crimson red and aspen turning a bright yellow. The image is overlain onto a shaded relief map to enhance the topographic diversity of the area.

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