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Data acquired August 31, 1984 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired August 31, 1984 4000 x 3000 4 MB - JPEG
Data acquired August 31, 1984 4500 x 4500 49 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired August 4, 2009 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired August 4, 2009 4000 x 3000 5 MB - JPEG
Data acquired August 4, 2009 4500 x 4500 48 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired August 31, 1984 - August 4, 2009 127 KB - KML/KMZ
This pair of images shows explosively growing suburbs—“boomburbs”—north of Dallas, Texas.
NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey.
Published February 7, 2010 Data acquired August 31, 1984 - August 4, 2009