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Portland. Correct lighting, x2 vertical exaggeration w-Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams. These scenes show Portland, Oregon and the countryside around it as seen by
the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument. Portland sits on the
Willamette River south of its confluence with the Columbia River. The city
sits very close to several mountains in the Cascade Range, including Mt. Hood,
Mt. Adams, and Mt. St. Helens. The terrain of the area is also shown
exaggerated by a factor of two to emphasis terrain features such as the
mountains and the Columbia Gorge just north of Mt. Hood and south of Mt.
Adams.
The shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green
(TM band 2) channels are displayed in the images as red, green, and blue
respectively. In this combination, barren and-or recently cultivated land
appears red to pink, vegetation appears green, water is dark blue, and artificial
structures of concrete and asphalt appear dark grey or black. The natural color
images combine TM bands 3, 2, and 1 and map them to red, green, and blue
respectively.
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DLESE Catalog ID:
NASA-SVS-001350
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Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Author:
Jesse Allen NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio
Principal Investigator:
Darrel Williams NASA/GSFC |