New York City Flyby

  • Released Friday, April 9, 1999
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These scenes show Long Island, Long Island Sound, and Manhattan Island with the metropolitan area of New York City as seen by the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument. The shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green (TM band 2) channels are displayed in the images as red, green, and blue respectively. In this combination, barren and/or recently cultivated land appears red to pink, vegetation appears green, water is dark blue, and artificial structures of concrete and asphalt appear dark gray or black.

A flyby of New York City, from Landsat imagery taken August 30, 1996

Long Island, NY (August 30, 1996)

Long Island, NY (August 30, 1996)

Manhattan (August 30, 1996)

Manhattan (August 30, 1996)

Video slate image reads, "Viewing New York CityUsing the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue30 August 1996".

Video slate image reads,
"Viewing New York City
Using the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue
30 August 1996".

For More Information

See http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/Landsat_USCities/index.html

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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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