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Tehran Urbanization

Explosive urban growth is documented in this pair of images of Tehran from 1985 and 2009.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Tehran Urbanization.

NASA image created by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey.

Published November 20, 2009
Data acquired August 2, 1985 - July 19, 2009

Source:: Landsat 5 > TM