Urban Growth in Las Vegas
In May 1973, less than a year after the first of NASA's Landsat satellites was launched, Las Vegas, Nevada had a population of only 358,000. By 2006 the population had ballooned to over 2 million. Still one of America's fastest growing urban areas, this series of Landsat scenes from four different years shows just how dramamtic the growth of Las Vegas has been.
This edited movie combines four different years of Landsat imagery to show how the city of Las Vegas grew between the years 1972 and 2006.
Las Vegas, Nevada May, 1973 Population 358,400
Las Vegas, Nevada June, 1991 Population 937,261
Las Vegas, Nevada May, 2000 Population 1,563,282
Las Vegas, Nevada February, 2006 Population 2,013,267
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, January 30, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
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[Landsat]
ID: 47
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