The Thermal Infrared Sensor on the newest Landsat provides insight into something invisible to human eyes: the temperature of the land surface.
Published Apr 18, 2013Image of the Day Heat Drought Human Presence Temperature Extremes
Several new farms, parks, gardens, and tree-planting projects have made Al Ain one of the greenest cities in the Middle East.
Published Sep 6, 2015
The fast-growing city has polluted waterways and a growing demand for clean tap water.
Published Apr 11, 2017
Tucson lies between the forested Catalina Mountains and the Tucson Mountains (dark reddish brown at the left image margin).The typical western North American cityscape is a pattern of regular north-south aligned rectangles outlined by major streets set one mile apart.
Published Jul 19, 2004
Las Vegas experienced rapid growth between 1984 and 2009, and the growth was recorded by NASA’s long-lived Landsat 5 satellite.
Published Mar 1, 2009
A new study found that the abundance of these floating plants has increased due to urbanization.
Published Sep 2, 2020
Astronauts learn to sense the way sunlight brings out different features in the water and around coastal cities.
Published Apr 27, 2015
New maps show the fluctuating river and lake levels in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Published Jul 16, 2016
Underground channels have supplied towns in southeastern Morocco for centuries.
Published Nov 19, 2016
Thermal infrared imagery of the Southern California desert picks up the invisible water in the farmland around the Salton Sea.
Published Apr 23, 2013Image of the Day Heat Land Water Drought Temperature Extremes
Acquired October 19, 2011, and November 12, 2008, these false-color images compare conditions around Bangkok, where flooding loomed in late October 2011.
Published Oct 20, 2011
Natural vegetation and irrigated farmland along the Snake River Plain in Idaho use dramatically different amounts of water during the growing season.
Published Jan 26, 2010
A multi-year drought, a growing population, and management choices have put the city’s water supply in a precarious position.
Published Jan 29, 2018
An arid region grew even drier between 2003 and 2009 due to human consumption of water for drinking and agriculture.
Published Mar 13, 2013
Water shortages in the Middle East lead to sanitation issues in schools, resulting in periodic school closures. NASA is working to change that.
Published Jul 27, 2018
Though governed by separate countries, the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, merge into an apparently seamless metropolis in this satellite image, but vegetation is confined mostly to the United States' side of the border.
Published Mar 15, 2009
