Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas (While Water Supplies Last) is a non bad visualization of the evolution of Sin City every bit seen from space. To exercise this animated map of Las Vegas' increment ProPublica processed forty years of Landsat imagery.
The move of the map is to demo how the city's H2O consumption has grown inwards conjunction amongst the city's expanding footprint. If you lot exercise the timeline beneath the map you lot tin animate through the satellite images too meet how the urban inwardness has spread farther too farther out into the surrounding desert. Check-out how Lake Mead inwards item seems to convey visibly shrunk inwards size inwards only the terminal decade.
The map was created every bit role of ProPublica's superb Killing the Colorado interactive, which explores how homo is applied scientific discipline the expiry of this non bad American river.
You tin every bit good explore the rapid increment of Las Vegas over fourth dimension on Time's Timelapse map. Timelapse allows you lot to exercise a timelapse sequence from satellite images (from 1984 to 2012) for anywhere on Earth.The application comes amongst a break of default views that let you lot to thought 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 live on a lilliputian difficult to navigate. You need to scroll downwards the page a lilliputian until the 'Explore the World' link appears inwards the header chemical ingredient at the altitude of the page. Click on the 'Explore the World' link too you lot tin too thus direct from whatever of the default satellite animations or search for whatever place inwards the world.
