Landsat 7 20 Year Urbanization West of Shenzhen, China
The long operational history of the Landsat satellite allows a detailed study of urban growth around the world, as illustrated by this animation of urbanization around Shenzen, China.
This annimation zooms down to Shenzhen, China and dissolves between images of city from 1973 to 2001.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)
- Karen Seto (Stanford University)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, June 23, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
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Datasets used
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[Landsat-1: MSS]
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[Landsat-2: MSS]
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[Landsat-3: MSS]
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[Landsat-4: TM]
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[Landsat-5: TM]
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[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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Blue Marble [Terra: MODIS]
ID: 492Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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