Earth  ID: 1052

Zoom and Spin Around Atlanta: Daytime Thermal View of the Heat Island

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on February 21, 2000
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A flyby of Atlanta showing thermal imagery taken during the day by an airborne ATLAS instrument on May 11 and 12, 1997. This imagery is surrounded by Landsat Thematic Mapper data taken on June 27, 1998.
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Suburban Atlanta daytime thermal
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Urban Atlanta daytime thermal
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Atlanta Daytime thermal
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Atlanta temperature color bar
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Video slate image reads, "Atlanta, Georgia

Zooming down and spinning around Atlanta in thermal day".

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Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Dale Quattrochi (NASA/MSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:
ATLAS
1997/05/11-1997/05/12
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Landsat-5/TM
1998/06/27
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AAAS

Keywords:
SVS >> Atlanta
SVS >> Heat Island
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Sprawl
SVS >> Urban
SVS >> Copenhagen
NASA Science >> Earth

Places you might have seen this:
Wikipedia: Urban Heat Island