Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest — North/South Tour
- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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In these false color images, the colors represent types of land; for example, blue areas are forests; orange/yellow areas are agriculture; and, purple areas are urban. Each 'stack' is representative of a Landsat scene. There are 22 stacks stitched together to cover most of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This processed data is used for science, natural resource management, and education.
We move in to the southwest corner of the data set near Redwood National Park and proceed on a slow tour through a portion of the data set. Time loops from 1984 through 2011 as we move. We move over to Mount Shasta, then up the Cascade Range, passing Crater Lake National Park, the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson, Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, and the North Cascades National Park. Next we move west over Seattle and pass over Olympic National Park, then we head back south down the Willamette Valley back to Redwood National Park.
Don't miss this related narrated visualization
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio and the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology at Oregon State University
Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (GST)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ)
Scientists
- Justin Braaten (Oregon State University)
- Robert Kennedy (Boston University)
- Zhiqiang Yang (Oregon State University)
Producer
- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
LandTrendr
The Landsat satellites have witnessed decades of change on the Earth's surface. Algorithms in LandTrendr
Dataset can be found at: http://landtrendr.forestry.oregonstate.edu
See more visualizations using this data setTerra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
See more visualizations using this data setSRTM DEM (Collected with the SIR-C sensor)
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Related pages
Life Histories from Landsat: 25 Years in the Pacific Northwest Forest
Dec. 6, 2012, 7 p.m.
Read moreNarrated video of LandTrendr analysis of the Pacific Northwest, using data from Robert Kennedy (Boston University) using Landsat satellites. Visualized by Greg Shirah of NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio.For complete transcript, click here.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || This visualization shows a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated algorithm called LandTrendr. LandTrendr analyzes t miss this related tour of the region. || LandTrendr analysis of the Pacific Northwest. No audio. || LandTrendr analysis of the Pacific Northwest. No audio and no graphs. || Frames for 5x3 or 3x3 hyperwall || Print resolution still over Portland || Print resolution still showing shrub regrowth after a clear cut || Print resolution still showing a bark beetle infestation near the Three Sisters || Print resolution still showing shrub regorwth after a budworm infestation near Mount Hood || Print resolution still showing shrub regrowth after a budworm infestation east of Mount Rainier || Print resolution still comparing clear cutting on private land versus protected park land || Print resolution still showing the exent of the data set used in these visualizations covering about 2/3 of Washington and Oregon || Print resolution still of North America with LandTrendr data || Print resolution still of North America without LandTrendr data || Color legend