✅ SOLVED What am I seeing in this satellite image?

[Mud Hut]

Any ideas?

 

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[GoDeep]

Appears to be a clear cut area growing back in.

Do you have the coordinates?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

The effects of raster layering multiple images to create a single image/display of a manipulated composite aerial image.

Or a fresh-growth over a prior cleared field or patch of land.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It could be a hunting area that is growing back in, are any hunting clubs or leases in the area? there might be deer stands around the edges of cleared area.

 

[Mud Hut]

Appears to be a clear cut area growing back in.

Do you have the coordinates?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/G...5e545d87dfe637!8m2!3d38.9581686!4d-76.2102288

 

[jeff of pa]

Do you know the Area ?? Is it Game Land ?
Could it be a Food Plot for Wildlife ?

 

[RTR]

Any ideas?

Take a look at it with LIDAR here https://gisgeography.com/top-6-free-lidar-data-sources/

 

[DCMatt]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/G...5e545d87dfe637!8m2!3d38.9581686!4d-76.2102288

My thought was new growth on old farm land. I see a lot of that in Loudoun County. Here's a compare with the 1905 topo map. I expected to see a house there. Nada...

 

[pepperj]

Looks like it was cleared and the new growth is coming back in.
Sometimes if there's a parcel of trees acreage it will harvested of the standing wood.

 

[DCMatt]

Here it is in 1973:

 

[Anduril]

It's just clear-cut land.

Go to Google Earth, and search coordinates 38.94186, -76.19821
Then, in the menu bar, click the little clock with the left-facing arrow (to go back in time to view prior Google Earth images).
A scroll bar will appear at the upper left of the map. Scroll forward to Sept 2005 ("9/2005") and you can clearly see a clear-cut field of the same basic dimensions as shown in your map.
And especially so if you fast-forward to September 2007.

Now, what it might have been before that? Or, why this particular field is clear-cut is anybody's guess.
But probably just for logging? I don't see any evidence of structures of any kind.

 

[Mud Hut]

Thanks Guys! I appreciate your help and pointers.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

What is interesting is the upper left area, Not a clear cut or food plot area, but rock or some mining has disturbed area, the coloration is greyish like a mineral deposit or rock.