World Cities Seen by Satellite

Follow these links to see satellite images of a number of world cities.
Draw a box in the window and click the Process Image button to zoom in for greater detail.
Click on the Show Details button to see the image in full size.
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Asia

Europe

World Data

The Earth by Night (as seen by satellite)

With the exception of the World Data, these images are from the ASTER Satellite instrument and are obtained from the United States Geological Survey's EROS Data Center.
They have a pixel size of approximately 15 metre and include data from the visible spectrum and near infra-red wavelengths. This relatively small pixel size makes these images well suited to detailed studies of the Earth's surface and the broader aspects of the urban environment.
The original data were collected by the Japanese ASTER instrument on NASA's TERRA satellite.

These are false-colour images constructed from two bands in the visible wavelength range and one near-infrared band. The images have been constructed with the near-infrared band drawn in green colours. This mostly represents green vegetation.
In these images, human intervention in the environment such as roads, buildings and bare ground usually show in purple tones.

To see other images available on Earthinsite, set the Zoom To: chooser in the bottom left corner of the Geoselection Tool to Australia or World.
Draw a box in the image window over an area of interest, and
Click on the Select Data button.

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