Land cover change in Nevada

Figure 2.13

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program

This figure appears in chapter 2 of the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2016 report.

http://climate.nasa.gov/state_of_flux#Western_Las_Vegas_930x370.jpg.

Land cover change, such as the rapid urban expansion of Las Vegas shown above (left: 1992; right: 2013), interacts with climate change in complex ways. Scenarios can be used to understand and plan for the plausible permutations of these and other interacting processes in the Earth system. (Source: USGS Landsat)

When citing this figure, please reference Images collected by Landsat satellite on September 10, 1992 (left panel) and October 6, 2013 (right panel). Retrieved as a single image (panels not separated) in March 2015 from NASA Images of Change.

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