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Tehran Satellite Images: 1985-2009
November 21, 2009 | NASA Earth Observatory

Tehran is one of the world’s fastest growing cities with a population surging from about 3 million in 1985 to over 10 million today. NASA’s Earth Observatory has a Landsat image pair that shows land use change from 1985 to 2009.


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