Phoenix With Terrain, x 3 Exaggeration

  • Released Friday, April 9, 1999
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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.

A flyby of Phoenix, Arizona, using Landsat imagery from June 25, 1998 draped over elevation data

Phoenix, AZ (June 25, 1998)

Phoenix, AZ (June 25, 1998)

Region around Phoenix, AZ (June 25, 1998)

Region around Phoenix, AZ (June 25, 1998)

Video slate image reads, "LandSat ImagesPhoenix with terrainx3 exag."

Video slate image reads, "LandSat Images
Phoenix with terrain
x3 exag."

For More Information

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

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Friday, April 9, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT.

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