Sterling, Virginia, USA

August 27, 1984

October 2, 1997

Conversion of forests and agriculture areas to residential land uses west of Washington, DC Agricultural and wooded areas are brown and yellow in color while residential and industrial areas are cyan. (Total area: 11 square km.)

Global Land Cover Change

· Binga, Congo

· British Columbia,
Canada

· Global Change Map

· MODIS Vegetation

· Paraguay, South
America

· Santa Cruz, Bolivia

· Sakhalin Island, Russia

· Sterling, Virginia, USA

Quick Links

· Large Scale
Biosphere-Atmosphere
Experiment in Amazonia

· NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change Program

· NASA's Terra Satellite

· Terra's MODIS

University of Maryland Department of Geography