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3D Atlanta Heat Island
Zoom in showing true color, then changing to daytime thermal, then nighttime thermal, using mountain top, Landsat, ATLAS thermal, land use, and clouds/convection data

A flyby of Atlanta showing visible imagery, daytime thermal data, and nighttime thermal data taken by an airborne ATLAS instrument on May 11 and 12, 1997. This imagery is surrounded by Landsat Thematic Mapper data taken on June 27, 1998. The flyby is followed by a timelapse of land use in the region from 1973 to 1997 from Landsat data and a sequence of GOES imagery showing cloud and thunderstorm formation over the Atlanta heat island.    A flyby of Atlanta showing visible imagery, daytime thermal data, and nighttime thermal data taken by an airborne ATLAS instrument on May 11 and 12, 1997. This imagery is surrounded by Landsat Thematic Mapper data taken on June 27, 1998. The flyby is followed by a timelapse of land use in the region from 1973 to 1997 from Landsat data and a sequence of GOES imagery showing cloud and thunderstorm formation over the Atlanta heat island.
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Convection over Atlanta    Convection over Atlanta

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Temperature scale for Atlanta Heat Island 		   Temperature scale for Atlanta Heat Island

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Animation Number:1049
Animators:Greg Shirah (Lead)
 Tom Bridgman
Studio:NASA
Completed:2000-02-21
Scientist:Dale Quattrochi (NASA/MSFC)
Instruments:ATLAS
 GOES
 Landsat
 Landsat-5/TM
Data Collected:ATLAS: 1997/05/11-1997/05/12, Landsat: 1973, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997, 1998/06/27
Series:AAAS
Video:SVS2000-0002 *
Goddard TV Tape:G2000-015
Keywords:
SVS >> Atlanta
SVS >> Heat Island
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Sprawl
SVS >> Urban
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