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Oct 30, 2009
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To implement the conservation plan for the Northern spotted owl, wildlife and land managers need to locate the birds. Mapping their habitat would be prohibitively expensive over the 25-million acres of affected land if carried out by the traditional means of ground-based surveys. Instead, scientists at the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management are using satellites -- Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 -- to determine where spotted owls are likely to nest. Dark green areas in this 1996...
Topic: What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=131
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Mar 19, 2009
03/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video on Landsat 5's anniversary.
Topic: What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/landsat_bday.html
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Images by Barbara Summey, NASA GSFC Visualization Analysis Lab, based on Landsat 5 data provided by the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
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In 1999, an American Museum of Natural History expedition used Landsat images like this one to locate a new site of dinosaur and early mammal fossils in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. With Landsat 5 and 7 data the scientists can identify areas comprised of sedimentary rocks where vegetation is sparse, requirements for good fossil sites. The high-resolution images also improve upon the poor previously-existing maps of the area.At the top is a true color Landsat 5 image of the Gobi desert covering the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Landsat
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=15424
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Jul 22, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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In southwestern Oregon, the Florence Fire (north) and the Sour Biscuit Fire (south) continued to burn virtually out of control on July 21, 2002. Numerous evacuation notices have been issued for residents in the area as the fires remain difficult to control due to the steep, rugged terrain of the Klamath Mountains. This image is from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper. Image provided by the edc.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch.
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=9938
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Jul 9, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov Landsat Project Science Office at NASA GSFC.
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Dense plumes of blue-white smoke billowed from the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia on April 19, 2007, when the Landsat 5 satellite captured this detailed image. The fire started on April 16, when a tree fell on a power line and, fanned by strong winds, quickly exploded into a major fire. By April 19, the fire had forced officials to close several roads, including U.S. Highway 1, and to evacuate hundreds of people from the perimeter of the city of Waycross, the silver cluster along the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Georgia
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7648
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Jul 1, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- Image provided by the edc.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
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This image of the Picnic Rock Fire near Ft. Collins, Colorado was taken mid-morning on April 1, 2004 when the fire covered approximately 5,500 acres. Data from the shortwave, near-infrared, and visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum reveal actively burning areas (yellow and pink pixels). The burn scar appears brown, while fields cleared for planting are tan and emerging crops and grasslands are light green. Developed areas, including Fort Collins in the lower right corner of the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Colorado
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4376
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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This image of the Picnic Rock Fire near Ft. Collins, Colorado was taken mid-morning on April 1, 2004 when the fire covered approximately 5,500 acres. Data from the shortwave, near-infrared, and visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum reveal actively burning areas (yellow and pink pixels). The burn scar appears brown, while fields cleared for planting are tan and emerging crops and grasslands are light green. Developed areas, including Fort Collins in the lower right corner of the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Colorado
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=19203
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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In southwestern Oregon, the Florence Fire (north) and the Sour Biscuit Fire (south) continue to burn virtually out of control. Numerous evacuation notices have been issued for residents in the area as the fires remain difficult to control due to the steep, rugged terrain of the Klamath Mountains.This false-color image from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper was acquired on July 21, 2002. In the image, vegetation is green, burned areas are deep magenta, active fire is bright pink, and smoke is light...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3464
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Jun 30, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Image by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland.
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In mid-December of 2003, a series of landslides buried over 100 people in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte. Heavy rains saturated the soil on the region's steep hillsides, which then collapsed, partially burying several towns. The majority of the victims were near Liloan and San Francisco. Local officials disagree on whether the slides were caused by illegal logging, rapid runoff from nearby coconut plantations, or solely the rain. This image was acquired on June 29, 1992, by the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Philippines
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4079
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Jul 22, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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In southwestern Oregon, the Florence Fire (north) and the Sour Biscuit Fire (south) continue to burn virtually out of control. Numerous evacuation notices have been issued for residents in the area as the fires remain difficult to control due to the steep, rugged terrain of the Klamath Mountains. This false-color image from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper was acquired on July 21, 2002. In the image, vegetation is green, burned areas are deep magenta, active fire is bright pink, and smoke is light...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=9940
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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In southwestern Oregon, the Florence Fire (north) and the Sour Biscuit Fire (south) continued to burn virtually out of control on July 21, 2002. Numerous evacuation notices have been issued for residents in the area as the fires remain difficult to control due to the steep, rugged terrain of the Klamath Mountains.This image is from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper. Sensor: Landsat 5/TM.
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3463
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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In southwestern Oregon, the Florence Fire (north) and the Sour Biscuit Fire (south) continued to burn virtually out of control on July 21, 2002. Numerous evacuation notices have been issued for residents in the area as the fires remain difficult to control due to the steep, rugged terrain of the Klamath Mountains.This image is from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper. Sensor: ADEOS/ADEOS.
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17905
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Jun 22, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Images by Barbara Summey, NASA GSFC Visualization Analysis Lab, based on Landsat 5 data provided by the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
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In 1999, an American Museum of Natural History expedition used Landsat images like this one to locate a new site of dinosaur and early mammal fossils in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. With Landsat 5 and 7 data the scientists can identify areas comprised of sedimentary rocks where vegetation is sparse, requirements for good fossil sites. The high-resolution images also improve upon the poor previously-existing maps of the area. At the top is a true color Landsat 5 image of the Gobi desert covering the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Landsat
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=602
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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In southwestern Oregon, the Florence Fire (north) and the Sour Biscuit Fire (south) continue to burn virtually out of control. Numerous evacuation notices have been issued for residents in the area as the fires remain difficult to control due to the steep, rugged terrain of the Klamath Mountains.This false-color image from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper was acquired on July 21, 2002. In the image, vegetation is green, burned areas are deep magenta, active fire is bright pink, and smoke is light...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17906
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the University of Maryland.
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In mid-December of 2003, a series of landslides buried over 100 people in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte. Heavy rains saturated the soil on the region’s steep hillsides, which then collapsed, partially burying several towns. The majority of the victims were near Liloan and San Francisco. Local officials disagree on whether the slides were caused by illegal logging, rapid runoff from nearby coconut plantations, or solely the rain.This image was acquired on June 29, 1992, by the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Philippines
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16673
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Images courtesy the Landsat Project Science Office at NASA GSFC, Landsat 5 data courtesy USGS EDC
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The Atlantic’s powerful waters gouged a new inlet across Hatteras Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks on September 18, 2003 when Hurricane Isabel came ashore. The top image, taken by the Landsat 5 satellite on September 26, 2003, shows how the storm split Hatteras Island into two. The bottom image, taken on October 25, 1999, shows the southern tip of Hatteras Island before Isabel wrought her damage. The inlet cut across Highway 12 near a section of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Park,...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- North Carolina
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18901
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Jun 30, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Images provided courtesy of the edc.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS Data Center and the Landsat Project Science Office at NASA/GSFC
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The Atlantic's powerful waters gouged a new inlet across Hatteras Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks on September 18, 2003, when Hurricane Isabel came ashore. The top image, taken by the Landsat 5 satellite on September 26, 2003, shows how the storm split Hatteras Island in two. The bottom image, taken on October 25, 1999, shows the southern tip of Hatteras Island before Isabel wrought her damage. The inlet cut across Highway 12 near a section of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Park, to the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- North Carolina
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3863
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Images provided courtesy of the and the Landsat Project Science Office at NASA/GSFC
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The Atlantic’s powerful waters gouged a new inlet across Hatteras Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks on September 18, 2003, when Hurricane Isabel came ashore. The top image, taken by the Landsat 5 satellite on September 26, 2003, shows how the storm split Hatteras Island in two. The bottom image, taken on October 25, 1999, shows the southern tip of Hatteras Island before Isabel wrought her damage. The inlet cut across Highway 12 near a section of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Park, to...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- North Carolina
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16601
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Dec 10, 2010
12/10
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NASA
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Landsat 5 captured this natural-color image of Quebec just after the Great Blizzard of March 1993, a nor'easter also called the ''white hurricane.'' The storm brought heavy precipitation, severe winds, and freezing temperatures to an area stretching from Northern Florida to Eastern Canada. Credit: NASA/USGS
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Florida, Where -- Canada
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/315177main_1993_Blizzard_946x710_full.jpg
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Jul 25, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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The tip of Mount St. Helens glowed red when the Landsat 5 satellite passed overhead on October 14, 2004. At the time, the volcano was at alert level 2 in a three level warning system; level two indicates that the volcano is restless and may erupt at any time, but an eruption is not imminent. By this time, hot lava had broken to the surface of the growing lava dome inside the crater. The red dot seen here actually represents pixels that were saturated in Landsat's thermal bands and corresponds...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Crater, What -- Spirit
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=14042
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Jul 1, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- Image courtesy the glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility and the wcs.org/ Wildlife Conservation Society
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One of the richest mountain primate communities in Africa became a national park on March 3, 2004. Home to chimpanzees, Angolan black-and-white colobus monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, and other primates, the albertinerift.org/arift-home/arift-protectedareas/Nyungwe/'' target=''_blank Nyungwe National Park covers 970 square kilometers of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs in the mountains of Rwanda. In all, the new park boasts 13 different primate species, 260 bird species, and...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Rwanda, Where -- Burundi
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4314
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Dec 10, 2010
12/10
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The abandoned city of Pripyat, home to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, lies on the Pripyat River in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus boarder. Three days after the April 26, 1986, nuclear accident, Landsat 5 acquired this image of the region. The power plant explosion and ensuing fire released highly radioactive nuclear fallout into the atmosphere, affecting region tens to hundreds of miles from the plant. This natural color Landsat 5 image uses TM bands 3,2,1. Credit: NASA/USGS
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Ukraine, Where -- Belarus
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/315107main_1986_Chernobyl_HI_full.jpg
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the University of Maryland’s .
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Due west of the city of Pasto, Colombia, layer upon layer of ash, lava, cinders, and other volcanic debris pile up to form the Galeras Volcano. On May 24, 2005, Colombian officials ordered 9,000 people living near the flanks of the volcano to evacuate, as seismic activity increased and the threat of eruption loomed. According to reports (in Spanish) from Colombia’s Institute of Geology and Mining published on June 1, 2005, the volcano is likely to erupt in coming days or weeks.This image...
Topics: What -- Crater, What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Colombia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17205
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Nov 11, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Note: A flyby of the Grand Canyon, using a Landsat image draped over terrain data. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM, DTED Level 1 (3 arc second).
Topics: Grand Canyon, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?908
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Oct 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Note: Flying along the Susquehanna River, using Landsat imagery draped over elevation data. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM, DTED Level 1 (3 arc second).
Topics: Human geography, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?323
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Nov 11, 2009
11/09
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Note: A flyby of the Grand Canyon from Landsat data. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Grand Canyon, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?905
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Jul 6, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Laura Rocchio, landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat Project Science Office.
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A deep red burn scar stretched across a remote section of Yellowstone's Central Plateau on August 9, 2006, when the Landsat 5 satellite captured this image. The land was freshly charred by the Magpie Fire, which was still burning when the image was acquired. The fire was burning about seven miles east of Madison Junction (just beyond the left edge of the image) near the center of Yellowstone National Park. The fire burned through lodgepole-pine forest, the type of forest that covers 80 percent...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Madison, Where -- Douglas
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6960
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy the and the
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One of the richest mountain primate communities in Africa became a national park on March 3, 2004. Home to chimpanzees, Angolan black-and-white colobus monkeys, grey-cheeked mangabeys, and other primates, the <a href="http://albertinerift.org/arift-home/arift-protectedareas/Nyungwe/" target="_blank">Nyungwe National Park</a> covers 970 square kilometers of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs in the mountains of Rwanda. In all, the new...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Rwanda, Where -- Burundi
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16758
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Jul 11, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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Although Santa Catalina Island is only about 33 kilometers (20.5 miles) from the Southern California mainland, naturally occurring fire is far less frequent there than in the chaparral and coniferous forests on the mainland. According to the Catalina Island Conservancy (steward for more than 42,000 acres on the 48,000-acre island) only 6 of the 229 fires that have occurred in natural areas on the island in the last century were triggered by lightning. The remainder were caused by people. On...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Earth, Where -- California
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8207
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Oct 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Note: A flyby of the Grand Canyon, from Landsat imagery draped over elevation data. Both the lighting and the vertical elevation scale are accurate in this animation. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM, DTED Level 1 (3 arc second).
Topics: Grand Canyon, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?1348
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image by Pat Scaramuzza provided by Ron Beck, USGS
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The tip of Mount St. Helens glowed red when the Landsat 5 satellite passed overhead on October 14, 2004. At the time, the volcano was at alert level 2 in a three level warning system; level two indicates that the volcano is restless and may erupt at any time, but an eruption is not imminent. By this time, hot lava had broken to the surface of the growing lava dome inside the crater. The red dot seen here actually represents pixels that were saturated in Landsat’s thermal bands and corresponds...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Crater, What -- Spirit
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=19671
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Image by Janine Savage, Global Change Master Directory, based on data from the Interagency Vegetation Mapping Project
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To implement the conservation plan for the Northern spotted owl, wildlife and land managers need to locate the birds. Mapping their habitat would be prohibitively expensive over the 25-million acres of affected land if carried out by the traditional means of ground-based surveys. Instead, scientists at the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management are using satellites ? Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 ? to determine where spotted owls are likely to nest. Dark green areas in this 1996...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=15354
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Jun 30, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Data obtained from the glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility
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Nestled between the large Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra is the Krakatau Volcano National Park. In the fourth century, a single marine volcano stood at this site, but in 416 A.D., the caldera of the volcano collapsed. The remnants formed a new caldera around 7 km (4 miles) in diameter, with the peak's remnants becoming the three islands of Verlaten, Lang, and Krakatau (formerly known as Krakatoa). This volcano remnant was not dormant, however, and in August 1883 the volcano on Krakatau...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Indian Ocean
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3844
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Oct 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Note: A flyby of the Seattle region, using Landsat imagery draped over elevation data. Lighting is accurate and the vertical scale is exaggerated by a factor of 2. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Human geography, Physical geography, Seattle, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?1349
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Image courtesy Marc Steininger, NASA GSFC
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This false-color image shows the gradual conversion of forest lands for agricultural use in the Tierras Bajas region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, as observed by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) flying aboard Landsat 5.Forest and woodland are represented as grey tones from Channel 5 in this ETM+ scene, collected in 1998. Other colors indicate the first year in which a site was developed for agriculture (see color scale in the image, which corresponds to years of development).In this scene,...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Santa Cruz, Where -- Bolivia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=15625
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Jun 25, 2011
06/11
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NASA -- Image courtesy Marc Steininger, NASA GSFC
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This false-color image shows the gradual conversion of forest lands for agricultural use in the Tierras Bajas region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, as observed by the Thematic Mapper (TM) flying aboard Landsat 5. Forest and woodland are represented as grey tones from Channel 5 in this TM scene, collected in 1998. Other colors indicate the first year in which a site was developed for agriculture (see color scale in the image, which corresponds to years of development). In this scene, land use types are...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Santa Cruz, Where -- Bolivia
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1147
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Nov 10, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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This Landsat image was created from data collected on 6 May 1992. Bands 5, 4, and 2 were used from the Thematic Mapper. A x3 vertical exaggeration was applied to the elevation data. Note: A flyby of Mt. St. Helens on May 6, 1992, from Landsat data. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Mt. St. Helens, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?964
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Data obtained from the
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Nestled between the large Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra is the Krakatau Volcano National Park. In the fourth century, a single marine volcano stood at this site, but in 416 A.D., the caldera of the volcano collapsed. The remnants formed a new caldera around 7 km (4 miles) in diameter, with the peak’s remnants becoming the three islands of Verlaten, Lang, and Krakatau (formerly known as Krakatoa). This volcano remnant was not dormant, however, and in August 1883 the volcano on...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Indian Ocean
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16594
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Oct 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Note: A flyby of the Seattle region ending at Mt. Rainier, using Landsat imagery draped over elevation data. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Mt. Rainier, Physical geography, Seattle, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?1355
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Nov 11, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Note: A flyby of Mt. St. Helens from Landsat data, with the terrain elevation growing to three times exaggeration. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Mt. St. Helens, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?965
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Jul 6, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Laura Rocchio, landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat Project Science Office.
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At the northern tip of Northern Territory, Australia, the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park spans the entire Cobourg Peninsula. The park also includes the surrounding waters of the Van Diemen Gulf and the Arafura Sea. Nearly the whole peninsula is Aboriginal land, and the park is managed as a sanctuary under the direction of traditional Aboriginal landowners. Diverse habitats -- from coral reefs, to rainforests, to wetlands -- are scattered across the park, which protects six different kinds of...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Australia, Where -- Arafura Sea
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6854
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Oct 29, 2009
10/09
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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These scenes show Miami and Fort Lauderdale 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. Note: A flyby of the Miami-Fort...
Topics: Human geography, Miami, Physical geography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?857
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The vast metropolis of Mexico City is located in Mexico's tectonically active high plateaus, about 500 miles south of the Texas border. The sprawling city, featured here on Jan. 31, 1985, experienced a massive earthquake in September 1985 that killed 10,000 residents. Today Mexico City is home to nearly 9 million people. This natural color Landsat 5 image of Mexico City was created using Thematic Mapper bands 3,2,1. Credit: NASA/USGS
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Mexico City, Where -- Texas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/315097main_1985_Mexico_City_946x710_full.jpg
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In the 25 years that Landsat 5 has been in orbit, the desert city of Las Vegas has gone through a massive growth spurt. The outward expansion of the city is shown here with a series of false-color images. The dark purple grid of city streets and the green of irrigated vegetation grow out in every direction into the surrounding desert. These images were created using reflected light from the shortwave infrared, near-infrared, and green portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (Landsat 5 TM bands...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Launch Abort System (LAS)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/315085main_1984_2009Las_Vegas_946x710_full.jpg
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Images by Barbara Summey, NASA GSFC Visualization Analysis Lab, based on Landsat 5 data provided by the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
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In 1999, an American Museum of Natural History expedition used Landsat images like this one to locate a new site of dinosaur and early mammal fossils in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. With Landsat 5 and 7 data the scientists can identify areas comprised of sedimentary rocks where vegetation is sparse, requirements for good fossil sites. The high-resolution images also improve upon the poor previously-existing maps of the area.At the top is a true color Landsat 5 image of the Gobi desert covering the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=188
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Oct 29, 2009
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This animation shows the power of computer graphics to explore data in the sense of virtual reality. In this scene, standard tools are applied to fly around the Galapagos Islands and the ocean floor surrounding the islands. Note: A flyby of the Galapagos Islands, both above and below the ocean surface. Data Collected: Various. Animator: Dave Pape (NASA). Scientist: Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM, 1-Degree DEM, ETOPO5.
Topics: Galapagos, Physical geography, Physical oceanography, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?65
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Nov 11, 2009
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Note: A flyby of Portland, from Landsat data. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Human geography, Physical geography, Portland, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?870
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Images provided by the (TRFIC) through the (BSRSI) based at Michigan State University, and the at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Indonesia is rapidly losing its lowland forests to logging, much of it illegal. At present, logging is claiming the forests at a rate of nearly two million hectares (slightly less than 5 million acres: roughly the same area as the state of Massachusetts) each year. At this rate, the island of Sumatra will have no more lowland forests by 2005, a fate already befallen the island of Sulawesi. Indonesia’s lowland forests are home to a wide variety of wildlife and are considered among the richest...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Indonesia, Where -- Massachusetts
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16089
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This scene shows Landsat Thematic Mapper data from the shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green (TM band 2) channels of St. Louis. The TM data was collected by Landsat 5 on the 18th of November, 1997. Note: A flyby of St. Louis, from Landsat imagery taken November 18, 1997. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM.
Topics: Human geography, Physical geography, St. Louis, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?861
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Note: San Francisco Bay flyby, using Landsat imagery from September 27, 1997. Animator: Jesse Allen (Raytheon). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Landsat-5/TM, DTED Level 1 (3 arc second).
Topics: Human geography, Physical geography, San Francisco, What -- Landsat 5
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?877
