Earth ID: 1053

Zoom and Spin Around Atlanta: Nighttime Thermal View of the Heat Island

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on February 21, 2000

A flyby of Atlanta showing thermal imagery taken during the night 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.

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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

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Landsat-5/TM

1998/06/27

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AAAS

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