Meanders of the Little Patuxent River
This is a relative elevation model of the Little Patuxent River, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where the river flows through the Patuxent Research Refuge. A REM takes digital elevation data and adjusts it so that it displays heights relative to the water’s surface as a river flows downstream, emphasizing abandoned channels and side channels that are hidden under trees in aerial photos.
A marsh just south of the river.
A log jam on a bend of the river, in a 2023 aerial and in the relative elevation model.
The Little Patuxent River, seen from the Northeast Corridor tracks.
Detail of the area just upstream of the railroad tracks.
Data sources: Anne Arundel County–State of Maryland 0.3m DEM, 2023, and Maryland Six Inch Imagery, 2023.