Urban Landsat: Cities from Space
Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_URBAN_LANDSAT

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Summary
Abstract: The Urban Landsat: Cities from Space dataset contains images for 66 urban areas and the raw, unerlying 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 ... View entire text

Purpose: To serve a wide user community by providing composite Landsat images and raw data for urban areas that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of remote sensing and the environment.
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 90.0   S: -55.0   E: 180.0   W: -180.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Small, C.
Dataset Title: Urban Landsat: Cities from Space
Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY
Dataset Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
Version: 1.00
Data Presentation Form: raster, map
Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ulandsat-cities-from-space
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1999-01-01
Stop Date: 2003-01-01
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
Data Center
Data Coordination Center, United States Antarctic Program Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://www.usap-data.org/
Dataset ID: NSF-ANT03-38342

Data Center Personnel
Name: ROBERT A. ARKO
Email: info at usap-data.org
Contact Address:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W
City: Palisades
Province or State: NY
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
Personnel
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: cforeman at montana.edu
Contact Address:
Montana State University
City: Bozeman
Province or State: MT
Postal Code: 59717
Country: US
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2009-04-02
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-04-03

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