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Palm islands, Dubai 10/2002
auteur: Nasa/GSFC/Novapix
référence: t-aseau-00005
Image Size 300 DPI: 32 * 23 cm
This image, acquired in October 2002 by Terra satellite, shows the early stages of Palm Jumeirah, also known as “The Palm†in Dubai. The circular outline of the archipelago is largely completed, and the palm fronds are beginning to take shape. Inland, cityscape begins to push eastward into the desert, with a combination of roads and buildings. The conspicuously vegetated area southeast of Palm Jumeirah is a golf course. East of this course, however, the land is mostly undeveloped desert. In this false-color image, bare ground appears light brown, vegetation appears red, water appears dark blue, and buildings and paved surfaces appear light blue or gray. The United Arab Emirates falls within the Empty Quarter—the world’s largest sand sea, which stretches across the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. As a result, little native vegetation thrives in this region, and most of the natural land surface is beige or tan. The bright red vegetated areas are almost certainly irrigated land.
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