Beijing Flyby

  • Released Friday, April 9, 1999
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This Landsat scene shows the city of Beijing, looking northward. The main city airport is visible in the foreground. The Landsat data is shown with shortwave infrared (TM Band 5) displayed as red, near infrared (TM Band 4) as green, and visible green (TM Band 2) as blue. Reddish tone shows bare soil or recently cultivated land, greens shows vegetation, while dark gray tones correspond to concrete and asphalt. The overall dark pink/red tone of the city in this image is due to the data coming from the early winter when there is much less vegetation coverage.

A flyby of Beijing, from Landsat data

Beijing, China

Beijing, China

Video slate image reads, "Viewing Beijing, ChinaUsing the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue25 Dec. 1988".

Video slate image reads,
"Viewing Beijing, China
Using the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue
25 Dec. 1988".

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This page was originally published on Friday, April 9, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT.

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