Amazing satellite images - Urban edition

Images of Earth from space - Urban edition! Ten image scenes:

0:00 Intro
0:10 (1) Urban heat punches holes in fog, New Delhi, India
0:47 (2) Explosive urban growth, Shanghai, China
1:33 (3) Urban heat island, Atlanta, Georgia
2:18 (4) Urban lights (or lack of), southeast Asia
3:18 (5) Patterns in light and snow, central China
4:14 (6) Holiday lights signature, eastern US
5:11 (7) Urban layout change, Cleveland, Ohio
5:54 (8) Lawns in desert and throughout the US
6:57 (9) Global pollution monitoring (NO2)
7:37 (10) Building-scale urban applications
8:12 Thumbnails

Keywords: Geography Viz, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Urban Images, Landsat, VIIRS-DNB, Astronaut Photography, Ozone Monitoring Instrument, WorldView3

Imagery and other data sources:

NASA Earth Observatory (Feb 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

Gautam, R. and Singh, M.K. (2018) Urban Heat Island Over Delhi Punches Holes in Widespread Fog in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (2), 1114–1121. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076794

NASA Earth Observatory https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/wor...

Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Statistics https://www.shanghai.gov.cn/

NASA Earth Observatory (Dec 2006) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

NASA Earth Observatory (Dec 2012) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/fea...

NASA Earth Observatory (Jan 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

NASA Earth Observatory (Dec 2014) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

Román, M.O. and Stokes, E.C. (2015) Holidays in lights: Tracking cultural patterns in demand for energy services. Earth’s Future, 3 (6) 182-205. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...

NASA Earth Observatory (Jan 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

NASA Earth Observatory (Nov 2005) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/fea...

Landsat 9 false color imagery exported from USGS LandsatLook https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/explore

Milesi, C., S.W. Running, C.D. Elvidge, J.B. Dietz, B.T. Tuttle, R.R. Nemani. (2005) Mapping and modeling the biogeochemical cycling of turf grasses in the United States. Environmental Management 36(3), 426-438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-004-03...

NASA Earth Observatory (Mar 2022) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

Anenberg, S.C., et al. (2022) Long-term trends in urban NO2 concentrations and associated paediatric asthma incidence: estimates from global datasets The Lancet Planetary Health, 6: e49–e58. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21...

Very high resolution sample imagery from https://explore.maxar.com/HD-Technolo...