Earth  ID: 2179

Impervious Surface Cover: Close Up of DC

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on June 12, 2001
Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998. For over 26 years, Landsat images have been used to help urban planners understand where growth is taking place and help geographers evaluate how different urban planning programs effect population growth and land use.
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Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.
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Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.
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Here we see an image of the DC area taken with the Landsat satellite on March 27, 1998.

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http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/landsat/sprawl.htm

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Andrew Smith (University of Maryland): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:
Landsat-7/ETM+
1998/03/27
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This item is part of this series:
Urban Surface Cover

Keywords:
DLESE >> Ecology
DLESE >> Environmental science
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Impervious
SVS >> Washington DC
NASA Science >> Earth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Habitat Conversion/fragmentation >> Urbanization/urban Sprawl

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