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Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States: Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This report discusses land use and landscape changes in the southwestern United States. Themes that are explored are the importance of climatic variability in driving ecological processes and ...
Urban Growth in American Cities: Glimpses of U.S. Urbanization part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This circular from the USGS contains paired satellite images (one from the 1970s and one from the 1990s) of 16 American cities, showing changes in urban land use during this period. Each image pair ...
More Nitrogen Upstream, Fewer Filters Downstream part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This USGS-sponsored site provides an explanation for the low oxygen conditions of the "dead zone" stemming from the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico watersheds. The factors that ...
The Chesapeake Bay's Dead Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Chesapeake Bay Foundation fact sheet provides information regarding the cause and growth of the Chesapeake Bay dead zone. The site also addresses possible solutions to the hypoxia and includes a ...
Demographia: Selected Current and Historic City, Ward and Neighborhood Densities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides a table of urban population, land area and density data for hundreds of cities, wards and neighborhoods worldwide. Data includes population per square mile, population per ...
State of the Land part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (part of the US Department of Agriculture) developed this site to provide data and analysis on land use, soil erosion and quality, water quality, wetlands, ...
How can we grow smarter? Investigating Urban Sprawl and Land Cover Change in the Classroom part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource consists of an interdisciplinary unit using remote-sensing techniques and data (Landsat, aerial photos, and MultiSpec image processing software) to investigate urban sprawl and its ...
Growth of Washington D.C. Metro Area: Gray Scheme part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This short quicktime video from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show the growth in urban Washington DC between 1973 and 1996.
Shanghai, dissolve from 1986 to Feb 1998 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This short video from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows how the city of Shanghai grew of the decade between 1986 and 1998.
Growth of Washington D.C. Metro Area: Roadways Labeled part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This short quicktime video from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show the growth in urban Washington DC between 1973 and 1996. In this version of the video, the major roadways in the area are ...
