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Over the last 25 years, Chandler, Arizona has traded its grid of fields for a grid of streets.

  • Founded in 1912 on cotton, grains, alfalfa, and ostrich farms, brown and green irrigated fields still dominate the region southeast of Phoenix in this 1985 natural color image taken by Landsat 5.
  • By 2011, the blue gray city streets of urban sprawl have taken over in this Landsat 5 image .
  • Chandler's economy has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and electronics, and its population boomed from 30,000 people in 1980 to 236,000 in 2010.

Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available over the Internet. The next Landsat satellite, now known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) and later to be called Landsat 8, is scheduled for launch in 2013.

In honor of Landsat’s 40th anniversary in July 2012, the USGS released the LandsatLook viewer – a quick, simple way to go forward and backward in time, pulling images of anywhere in the world out of the Landsat archive.

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Date and 2011
Source Landsat View: Chandler, Arizona
Author NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA

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