Earth ID: 1049

3D Atlanta Heat Island

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on February 21, 2000

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.

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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Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Dale Quattrochi (NASA/MSFC): Scientist

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:

ATLAS

1997/05/11-1997/05/12

http://www.earth.nasa.gov/history/atlas/atlas.html

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GOES

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Landsat

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Landsat-5/TM

1973, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997, 1998/06/27

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This item is part of this series:
AAAS

Goddard TV Tape:
G2000-015

Keywords:
SVS >> Atlanta
SVS >> Heat Island
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Sprawl
SVS >> Urban
SVS >> GOES
NASA Science >> Earth