Austin Texas Zoom In

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Zoom into Austin, Texas, using Landsat Imagery (WMS)

The WMS Global Mosaic dataset was developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This global mosaic was produced from visual and near infrared bands taken by the Landsat-7 satellite. Using the panchromatic band to sharpen the final image, a final resolution of 0.5 arc seconds (about 15 meters) can be achieved. This mosaic is available through the Web Mapping Services (WMS) protocol at JPL. This series of images was obtained using a software program called the Digital Earth PC which can use the WMS protocol to obtain images covering an arbitrary region of the earth. These images can be arranged in such a way with the Digital Earth PC software that a nearly continuous zoom effect can be achieved.

Landsat view of Austin, including Town Lake.

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    3029

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Eric Sokolowsky

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/10/21

  • Scientist

    Lucian Plesea (NASA/JPL)

  • Datasets

    WMS Global Mosaic

  • Keywords

    Zoom, Landsat

  • DLESE Subject

    Physical geography

  • Animation Type

    Stills