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DEA Land Cover - USGS Landsat - 1988-2020 - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

Published:15 May 2023

DEA Land Cover shows how Canberra has grown over more than three decades where each pixel represents a 25x25-metre square. See how the suburbs in the north in what is now Gungahlin seem to appear out of nowhere in the 1990s.

DEA Land Cover shows how Canberra has grown over more than three decades where each pixel represents a 25x25-metre square. See how the suburbs in the north in what is now Gungahlin seem to appear out of nowhere in the 1990s.

 

Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021. Input data from Landsat 5, 7 and 8, courtesy of the US Geological Survey.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/data4040143

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