Urban growth of Las Vegas from Landsat, 2000 to 2024
Twenty-five years of annual Landsat true-colour composites showing the expansion of the Las Vegas Valley into the surrounding desert.
About this output
One least-cloudy Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 scene per year for the Las Vegas Valley, at 120 m resolution. Successive frames show new suburbs and road grids extending south-west, north-west and south-east into the desert.
No usable scene was available for 1 of 25 periods (2012); these are shown as grey gaps.
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Landsat imagery courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
See the output terms and the dataset licence: Public domain (U.S. Geological Survey).
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