Earth  ID: 3509

Las Vegas Growth from Landsat

Visualizations by Horace Mitchell Released on April 16, 2008
This sequence of images from the earliest Landsat satellite to the present captures the dramatic growth of Las Vegas, Nevada. From 1973 to 2006, the population of Las Vegas grew from 358,000 to over 2 million.
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Landsat urban growth sequence for Las Vegas

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Visualization Credits

Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Andrew Freeberg (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:
Landsat-1/MSS
May 1973
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Landsat-5/TM
June 1991, May 2000
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Landsat-7/ETM+
May 2000, February 2006
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Keywords:
DLESE >> Environmental science
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Urban Growth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Terrestrial Ecosystems >> Urban Lands
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Environmental Impacts >> Urbanization
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Population >> Population Distribution
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