West of Shenzhen China Urbanization

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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.

1977

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    2762

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins, Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/05/29

  • Scientist

    Karen Seto (Stanford University), Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Blue Marble 8K Context Texture

  • Keywords

    Urbanization, Sprawl, Shenzhen, GCMD--Location--China, Reclamation, GCMD--Location--Hong Kong

  • DLESE Subject

    Human geography

  • Data Date

    1973,1975,1977,1978, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001

  • Animation Type

    Regular