Earth ID: 883

Phoenix With Terrain, x 3 Exaggeration

Visualizations by Jesse Allen Released on April 9, 1999

These scenes show Phoenix, Arizona 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.

The Landsat image has been combined with digital elevation model data to show terrain. The terrain has been vertically exaggerated by a factor of three to emphasize elevation information.

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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

1998/06/25

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DTED Level 1 (3 arc second)

Model - USGS

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USCities

Keywords:
DLESE >> Ecology
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Phoenix
DLESE >> Physical geography
GCMD >> Location >> Arizona
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