Landsat 7 20 Year Urbanization West of Shenzhen, China
The long operational history of the Landsat satellite allows a detailed study of urban growth around the world, as illustrated by this animation of urbanization around Shenzen, China.
This annimation zooms down to Shenzhen, China and dissolves between images of city from 1973 to 2001.
![1973 1973](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1973
![1975 1975](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1975
![1977 1977](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1977
![1978 1978](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1978
![1979 1979](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1979
![1980 1980](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1980
![1988 1988](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1988
![1989 1989](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1989
![1992 1992](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1992
![1993 1993](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1993
![1994 1994](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1994
![1995 1995](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1995
![1996 1996](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1996
![1999 1999](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
1999
![2000 2000](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
2000
![2001 2001](/static/svs/images/no_preview_web_black.png)
2001
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
- Karen Seto (Stanford University)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, June 23, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Papers used in this visualization
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http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=ruk29vgger44xvve
Datasets used in this visualization
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[Landsat-1: MSS]
ID: 48 -
[Landsat-2: MSS]
ID: 49 -
[Landsat-3: MSS]
ID: 50 -
[Landsat-4: TM]
ID: 52 -
[Landsat-5: TM]
ID: 53 -
[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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Blue Marble [Terra: MODIS]
ID: 492Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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