Color satellite image of the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia in 1984 and 2022, showing how agricultural activity has developed in the midst of a barren desert. The fields are irrigated by water pumped from underground aquifers. That water is distributed in rotation about a center point within a circular field—a technique known as center-pivot agriculture.

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Location: Saudi Arabia
Photo credit: © Planet Observer / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: aerial, agriculture, arabia, border, cartography, color, desert, east, geography, image, irrigation, map, middle, outdoors, overview, people, photography, satellite, saudi, view