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Description

The Urban Landsat: Cities from Space data set contains images for 66 urban areas and the raw, underlying data for 28 of these places. Each image shows a Landsat false color composite in UTM projection. The R/G/B layers correspond to TM/ETM+ bands 7/4/2. Each pixel is 30x30 meters in area and most images are 30x30 km in area. A 2% linear stretch has been applied to the images. The Landsat data files contain six reflected bands of calibrated exoatmospheric reflectance stored in ENVI band sequential (BSQ) format. Geographic coordinates are included in the header files. The data files contain 1000x1000x6 4 byte floating point numbers as indicated in the header files.

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-5,
LANDSAT-7
Instruments
ETM+,
TM
Spatial Extent
N: 90 S: -55 E: 180 W: -180
Geographic Region
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,
HAITI,
AFGHANISTAN,
AUSTRIA,
BRAZIL,
CANADA,
CHINA,
ECUADOR,
EGYPT,
EL SALVADOR,
GEORGIA,
HUNGARY,
INDIA,
LEBANON,
NEPAL,
NIGERIA,
NORTH KOREA,
RUSSIAN FEDERATION,
TAIWAN,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
VIETNAM
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1999-01-01 to 2003-12-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
c3540929138-esdis
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Small, C. (2006). Urban Landsat: Cities from Space (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SQ8XB1 Date Accessed: 2025-07-04

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