3D Atlanta Heat Island

  • Released Monday, February 21, 2000
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Zoom in showing true color, then changing to daytime thermal, then nighttime thermal, using mountain top, Landsat, ATLAS thermal, land use, and clouds/convection data

A flyby of Atlanta showing visible imagery, daytime thermal data, and nighttime thermal data taken by an airborne ATLAS instrument on May 11 and 12, 1997. This imagery is surrounded by Landsat Thematic Mapper data taken on June 27, 1998. The flyby is followed by a timelapse of land use in the region from 1973 to 1997 from Landsat data and a sequence of GOES imagery showing cloud and thunderstorm formation over the Atlanta heat island.

Convection over Atlanta

Convection over Atlanta

Temperature scale for Atlanta Heat Island

Temperature scale for Atlanta Heat Island

Video slate image reads, "Atlanta, GeorgiaZooming down to downtown AtlantaLooking at a 3D Atlanta, then dissolving into the day thermal data set, and then into the night thermal, and then into land use data, and then into a GOES data set of the surrounding area."

Video slate image reads, "Atlanta, Georgia
Zooming down to downtown Atlanta
Looking at a 3D Atlanta, then dissolving into the day thermal data set, and then into the night thermal, and then into land use data, and then into a GOES data set of the surrounding area."

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This page was originally published on Monday, February 21, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

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