Watch Las Vegas Grow From Space

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas (While Water Supplies Last) is a bully visualization of the evolution of Sin City equally seen from space. To exercise this animated map of Las Vegas' increment ProPublica processed xl years of Landsat imagery.

The purpose of the map is to exhibit how the city's H2O consumption has grown inward conjunction alongside the city's expanding footprint. If yous utilisation the timeline beneath the map yous tin animate through the satellite images too encounter how the urban inwardness has spread farther too farther out into the surrounding desert. Check-out how Lake Mead inward item seems to bring visibly shrunk inward size inward but the final decade.

The map was created equally utilisation of ProPublica's superb Killing the Colorado interactive, which explores how human being is applied scientific discipline the expiry of this bully American river.


You tin likewise explore the rapid increment of Las Vegas over fourth dimension on Time's Timelapse map. Timelapse allows yous to exercise a timelapse sequence from satellite images (from 1984 to 2012) for anywhere on Earth.The application comes alongside a seat out of default views that let yous to sentiment timelapse animations of satellite images showing the sprawling increment of Las Vegas, the edifice of Dubai, the shrinking of the Mendenhall Glacier too the drying-up of Lake Urmia.

Timelapse tin endure a petty difficult to navigate. You involve to scroll downwards the page a petty until the 'Explore the World' link appears inward the header chemical component subdivision at the superlative of the page. Click on the 'Explore the World' link too yous tin too hence select from whatsoever of the default satellite animations or search for whatsoever place inward the world.