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Khushab - Vegetation Anomaly

In the late 1990s the fact of the existence of a reactor near Khushab was public knowledge, but not the precise location of the facility. The team of John Pike, Tim Brown and Charles Vick were the first open source analysts to locate this reactor, based on the prominent vegetation anomaly. The entire complex is surrounded by a security fence, and over time the area inside the fence became covered in vegetation, while vegetation in the area outside the fence was overgrazed by local livestock.

Khushab Complex Location

Khushab Complex Overview

VEGETATION ANOMALY	The Khushab facility is characterized by a rather profound vegetation anomaly, that is visible even in the low resolution browse chips of medium resolution imagery from SPOT and LANDSAT-7. This vegetation anomaly is the result of differential grazing, a product of the security perimeter around the facility.
SPOTIMAGE	SPOT-4
Data Center	Data Set
ECS-EDC	LANDSAT-7 LEVEL-0R WRS-SCENE V002
Data Granule	Path	Row	Cloud Cover	Geo. Center	Date	Geo. Coverage
SC:L70RWRS.002:2000162502	150	38	1	31.74° Lat, 72.47° Lon	14 Jul 1999, 05:35:34	POLYGON: 32.6968° Lat, 71.6839° Lon; 32.4042° Lat, 73.6885° Lon; 30.7836° Lat, 73.2355° Lon; 31.0711° Lat, 71.2653° Lon;
SC:L70RWRS.002:2000538262	150	38	0	31.74° Lat, 72.46° Lon	05 Dec 1999, 05:35:38	POLYGON: 32.6970° Lat, 71.6704° Lon; 32.4045° Lat, 73.6756° Lon; 30.7841° Lat, 73.2234° Lon; 31.0715° Lat, 71.2525° Lon;
SC:L70RWRS.002:2000743676	150	38	2	31.74° Lat, 72.46° Lon	07 Feb 2000, 05:35:31	POLYGON: 32.6971° Lat, 71.6735° Lon; 32.4051° Lat, 73.6783° Lon; 30.7835° Lat, 73.2263° Lon; 31.0704° Lat, 71.2560° Lon;