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  1. 35

    The Lake That Filled Back in Two Wet Weeks

    Floods

    A city lake, shrunken in the dry months, tracked day by day through October.

  2. 34

    Twelve Days of Cloud Over One Field

    Method

    What to do when the monsoon hides your field from every pass of the satellite.

  3. 33

    Reading a Flood Map on a Bus Seat

    Floods

    What survives when a flood picture is shrunk to a phone screen.

  4. 32

    What a Vegetation Index Is Really Counting

    Method

    A plain walk through one number that turns leaves into colour, and where it misleads.

  5. 31

    Printing Forty Fields and Cutting Them Out

    Fields

    How a floor of paper squares taught me to see crop patches by eye.

  6. 30

    Black Water in Radar: Flood or Shadow?

    Floods

    Radar shows water as dark, but so do smooth roads, and so do shadows.

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