Earth ID: 848

Boston Flyby

Visualizations by Jesse Allen Released on April 9, 1999

This scene shows Landsat Thematic Mapper data from the shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green (TM band 2) channels of Boston. Logan Airport is visible in the foreground, while high resolution images show the highway network running around the city.

Video slate image reads,
"Viewing Boston
Using the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue
23 June 1997".

For More Information

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/Landsat_USCities/index.html

Visualization Credits

Jesse Allen (Raytheon): Lead Animator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:

Landsat-5/TM

1997/06/23

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Goddard TV Tapes:
G1999-021
G2003-046

Keywords:
SVS >> Boston
DLESE >> Human geography
DLESE >> Hydrology
DLESE >> Physical geography
GCMD >> Location >> Massachusetts
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0