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Nasa chronicles Dubai’s progress
DUBAI — A dramatic video of Dubai’s exponential growth viewed from space over the past 11 years has once again put the emirate in the spotlight.
The video, which is a compilation of images collected by Nasa’s space satellite from 2000-2011, shows Dubai’s rapid urbanisation and the rapid sprouting of the islands of Palm Jumeirah and The World. Massive on-ground projects showing new Dubai areas can also been seen taking shape.
Images of Dubai’s Urbanisation are on Nasa’s list titled World of Change. Other projects on this list Nasa chronicles Dubai’s progress include Antarctic Ozone Hole, Drought in Australia, Shrinking Aral Sea among several others.
Also posted on technology weblog Gizmodo on January 24, the video has already been viewed and commented upon by over 110,000 people.
Nasa’s website, that first posted the images obtained using the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Terra satellite said: “To expand possibilities for beachfront tourist development, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands.”
It adds: “Built from sand dredged from the sea floor and protected from erosion by rock breakwaters, the islands were shaped into recognizable forms, including two large palm trees.”
Describing the development the website adds: “The first Palm Island constructed was Palm Jumeirah, and in these false-colour images, bare ground appears brown, vegetation appears red, water appears dark blue, and buildings and paved surfaces appear light blue or gray.”
The first image, acquired in November of 2000, shows the area prior to the island’s construction. The image from February 2002 shows the barest beginnings of the artificial archipelago. By October 2002, substantial progress had been made on Palm Jumeirah with many sandy “palm fronds” inside a circular breakwater.
By November 2003, the palm tree had been constructed, and buildings and vegetation populate Palm Jumeirah in the images from November 2004, October 2005, September 2006, March 2007 and November 2008. The final image, acquired in February 2011, shows vegetation on most of the palm fronds, and numerous buildings on the tree trunk.
Inland, changes are just as dramatic between November 2000 and February 2011. In the earliest image, empty desert fills the lower right quadrant of the image, as cityscape primarily hugs the coast. As the years pass, urbanisation spreads, and the final image shows the area almost entirely filled by roads, buildings and irrigated land, it adds.
The video and images can be accessed on:
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/dubai.php>http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/dubai.php
<http://gizmodo.com/5878930/eleven-years-of-dubais-insane-growth-seen-from-space>http://gizmodo.com/5878930/eleven-years-of-dubais-insane-growth-seen-from-space
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