Bluest states of the USA

What are the most blue states of the United States? This video identifies and explores the bluest states of the United States. NOTE: Referring to the actual color blue - not political!
Keywords: Geography Viz, United States, Blueness, Remote Sensing, Landsat 8, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Verginia, Surface Water
Methodology:
-Used Google Earth Engine to create an image collection
-Landsat 8 Surface Reflectance data (LANDSAT/LC08/C02/T1_TOA)
-Five year date filter (get enough data for month and cloud filtering)
-June to August filter (avoid snow/ice cover, leaf-on period)
-Applied cloud mask
-Created median image RGB composite from the image collection
-Calculated 'blueness' index = Blue / (0.5 Red + 0.5 Green)
-Reduced mean blueness for State polygons (scale = 3000 m)
-Polygons included District of Columbia, so ranks ranged 1 to 51
Photo Credit:
Gfp-florida-everglades-national-park-clear-pond-with-lillies.jpg; 8 January 2013; www.goodfreephotos.com (gallery, image); Yinan Chen
Sources:
wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/environ... [accessed 6/1/2022]
The Clean Water Act at 50: Promises Half Kept at the Half-Century Mark by Keene Kelderman, Ari Phillips, Tom Pelton, Eric Schaeffer, Paul MacGillis-Falcon, and Courtney Bernhardt of the Environmental Integrity Project with maps by Louisa Markow of EIP and cover and infographic by Elizabeth Gething (2022)
Han, L. (1997). Spectral reflectance with varying suspended sediment concentrations in clear and algae-laden waters. Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing, 63(6), 701-705.

[@mauriciogonzalez3334]

Came across your channel. It’s great, keep it up!

[@J.D.E]

This is great! Love your channel! I’m up in New Brunswick, think you could do the red/blue/green map videos by Canadian province?

[@georgeheld1901]

this vid led me down a rabbit hole of if states had borders on the great lakes (answer: they do) that would easily put Michigan in spot no1

[@closmasmas9080]

What were the rankings of Alaska and Hawaii. I’m assuming one of them (probably Alaska) were ranked 11

[@georgeheld1901]

one is 11, one is 35

[@CODsauceify]

Going to guess Alaska being more Blue at rank 11 while Hawaii being 35.

[@48nation]

Arizona gotta be last or first lmao

[@aidanteall7186]

Best troll video ever. Though it's actually an interesting question in and of itself

[@thescience9844]

I live in Vermont! Representation!

[@Fusako8]

As someone who spent a significant amount of my life in Alaska. . .

[@venomlink2033]

He literally said “of the lower 48 states” in the beginning of the video

[@Fusako8]

@@venomlink2033 And? Still a choice to exclude it.

[@michaelweiske702]

Wouldn't Alaska be more... white?

[@blafonovision4342]

Kind of leaving out the water, heh?

[@blafonovision4342]

Kind of leaving out all the water, heh?

[@stickstories2750]

Oh no

[@naval-rn96]

Oh Michigan