Philadelphia Flyby
These scenes show the city of Philadelphia as seen by the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument. The river running through the city is the Delaware which defines the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In the larger city area image, north is approximately up. The river runs south. Just near the top of the image, upstream of the city and where the Delaware River turns west is the New Jersey city of Trenton. The shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green (TM band 2) channels are displayed in the images as red, green, and blue respectively. In this combination, barren and or recently cultivated land appears red to pink, vegetation appears green, water is dark blue, and artificial structures of concrete and asphalt appear dark gray or black.
A flyby of Philadelphia, from Landsat imagery taken October 11, 1997
Downtown Philadelphia, PA (October 11, 1997)
Philadelphia, PA (October 11, 1997)
Video slate image reads,
"Viewing Philadelphia
Using the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue
11 Oct. 1997".
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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
- Jesse Allen (Raytheon)
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Scientist
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, April 9, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT.
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[Landsat-5: TM]
ID: 53
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