Atlanta Heat Island: Slower Flyover, Yellow TIR Data

  • Released Friday, April 9, 1999
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A animation showing the correlation between thermal and visible Landsat data of the Atlanta Heat Island

Correlated thermal and land use data of the region around Atlanta as measured by LAndsat, where the top image is thermal data and the bottom is land use.

Correlated thermal and land use data of the region around Atlanta as measured by LAndsat, where the top image is thermal data and the bottom is land use.

Thermal data of the region around Atlanta as measured by Landsat, where red represents the hottest regions.

Thermal data of the region around Atlanta as measured by Landsat, where red represents the hottest regions.

For More Information

See http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/Landsat/atlanta_heat.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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