Las Vegas Growth from Landsat
This sequence of images from the earliest Landsat satellite to the present captures the dramatic growth of Las Vegas, Nevada. From 1973 to 2006, the population of Las Vegas grew from 358,000 to over 2 million.
Landsat urban growth sequence for Las Vegas
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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[Landsat-1: MSS]
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[Landsat-5: TM]
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[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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