Earth ID: 857

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Flyby

Visualizations by Jesse Allen Released on April 9, 1999

These scenes show Miami and Fort Lauderdale 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.

For More Information

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

Visualization Credits

Jesse Allen (Raytheon): Lead Animator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:

Landsat-5/TM

1998/05/14

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This item is part of this series:
USCities

Goddard TV Tape:
G1999-021

Keywords:
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Miami
DLESE >> Physical geography
NASA Science >> Earth