The Chinese city has reclaimed land from shallow coastal waters at a rapid rate.
Published Dec 11, 2019
Acquired in 2006, 2009, and 2010, these natural-color images show the progress of land reclamation aimed at increasing the port capacity at Rotterdam.
Published Nov 28, 2010
Maps of land surface type and temperature for Baltimore, Maryland, reveal the tight relationship between development and the urban heat island effect. Land temperatures in the densely developed city center are as much as 10 degrees Celsius higher than the surrounding forested landscape.
Published Dec 20, 2008
An island with an unusual shape has been growing in shallow coastal waters near China’s Hainan Island.
Published Aug 18, 2020
After a catastrophic earthquake left Port-au-Prince in a shambles, many people flocked to the new city of Canaan in search of a better life.
Published Jun 1, 2020
Satellites help land managers and city planners track city growth and ecosystem health around Portland, Oregon.
Published Aug 2, 2012
The bright lights of Shanghai’s city center and the distinctive new skyscrapers that form the skyline along the Pudong district make for spectacular night viewing from space.
Published Apr 16, 2012
People often say that borders are not visible from space. But the line between Kazakhstan and China couldn't be clearer if it were drawn on the sand.
Published Aug 16, 2014
The Mongolian capital is spreading outward as migrants from the countryside fill neighborhoods on the fringes of the city.
Published Jun 4, 2019
It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.
Published Jul 4, 2017
Unlike the vegetated tundra of its neighboring islands, Bunge Land is a barren sandy plain that also serves as a land bridge.
Published Oct 5, 2020
Farms in the historic Oltenia province display a compelling array of shapes and sizes.
Published Oct 14, 2020
A series of maps showing land use in 1850 and 1920.
Published Feb 9, 2008
There were few Indian rulers as passionate about architecture as Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the founder of Jaipur.
Published Aug 24, 2019
The world’s northernmost capital city, Reykjavik, Iceland, resides on geologically young land. The island’s location on the mid-Atlantic ridge where the American and Eurasian continental plates are pulling apart means that it experiences frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, but the same geothermal activity meets the inhabitants&rsquoe; energy needs by providing them with hot-water-powered home heating.
Published May 6, 2007
Ambitious tree-planting programs and intensified agriculture have led to more land area covered in vegetation.
Published Feb 12, 2019
Acquired August 17, 2011, this natural-color image shows Franz Josef Land, a 191-island archipelago in the northeastern Barents Sea.
Published Aug 28, 2011
