Urban Growth in Las Vegas
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Visualizer
- Marit Jentoft-Nilsen (None)
Writer
- Heather Hanson (GST)
Producer
- Marit Jentoft-Nilsen (None)
Project support
- Mark Malanoski (GST)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
Landsat-1 (Collected with the MSS sensor)
Landsat-2 (Collected with the MSS sensor)
Landsat-3 (Collected with the MSS sensor)
Landsat-4 (Collected with the MSS sensor)
Landsat-5 (Collected with the TM sensor)
Landsat-7 (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
Dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
See more visualizations using this data setLandsat-8 Band Combination 5, 4, 3 (Collected with the OLI sensor)
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Related pages
50 years of Landsat: Las Vegas
Oct. 17th, 2022
Read moreThe city of Las Vegas—meaning the meadows—was established in 1905. Its grassy meadows and artesian springs attracted settlers traveling across the arid Desert Southwest in the early 1800s. In the 1930s, gambling became legalized and construction of the Hoover Dam began, resulting in the city's first growth spurt. Since then, Las Vegas has not stopped growing. Population has reached nearly two million over the past decade, becoming one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the world. These false-color images show the rapid urbanization of Las Vegas between 1972 and 2022. The city streets and other impervious surfaces appear gray, while irrigated vegetation appears red. Over the years, the expansion of irrigated vegetation (e.g., lawns and golf courses) has stretched the city’s desert bounds. Timeseries animation of Las Vegas from 1972 to 2022. Mosaic of 9 years from 1972-2022 of the Las Vegas and Lake Mead Landsat time series Related pages