Earth ID: 868

New York City Flyby

Visualizations by Jesse Allen Released on April 9, 1999

These scenes show Long Island, Long Island Sound, and Manhattan Island with the metropolitan area of New York City 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.

Video slate image reads,
"Viewing New York City
Using the Thematic Mapper (TM) data sets with shortwave IR, IR, and Visible bands mapped to red, green, and blue
30 August 1996".

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

1996/08/30

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This item is part of this series:
USCities

Goddard TV Tapes:
G1999-021
G2003-046

Keywords:
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> New York City
DLESE >> Physical geography
NASA Science >> Earth