Earth ID: 10184

Urban Growth in Las Vegas

Released on January 30, 2008

In May 1973, less than a year after the first of NASA's Landsat satellites was launched, Las Vegas, Nevada had a population of only 358,000. By 2006 the population had ballooned to over 2 million. Still one of America's fastest growing urban areas, this series of Landsat scenes from four different years shows just how dramamtic the growth of Las Vegas has been.

Credits

Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC): Producer

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US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:

Landsat

May 1973, June 1991, May 2000, February 2006

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This item is part of this series:
Urban Growth

Goddard TV Tape:
G2008-041HD -- NASAs Landsat in HD 2008 Resource Tape

Keywords:
DLESE >> Environmental science
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Landsat
SVS >> Las Vegas
SVS >> Population growth
SVS >> Urban Growth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Population
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Terrestrial Ecosystems >> Urban Lands
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Environmental Impacts >> Urbanization
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0