Impervious Surface Cover: Close Up of DC

  • Released Tuesday, June 12, 2001
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Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998. For over 26 years, Landsat images have been used to help urban planners understand where growth is taking place and help geographers evaluate how different urban planning programs effect population growth and land use.

Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.

Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.

Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.

Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.

Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.

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See http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/landsat/sprawl.htm

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 12, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

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