Milan Expo 2015
Expo 2015 is the current Universal Exposition being hosted by Milan, Italy. The opening took place on 1 May 2015 at 10:00 am and the expo will close on 31 October 2015. This is the second time Milan has hosted the exposition, the first being the Milan International of 1906. On 23 November 2010, the event was officially announced by the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE). The BIE General Assembly in Paris decided in favour of the Milanese candidature on 31 March 2008. The theme chosen for the 2015 Milan Universal Exposition is Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. This embraces technology, innovation, culture, traditions and creativity and how they relate to food and diet. Expo 2015 will further develop themes introduced in earlier Expos (e.g., water at Expo 2008 in Zaragoza) in the light of new global scenarios and emerging issues, with a principal focus on the right to healthy, secure and sufficient food for all the world's inhabitants. The concerns of many futurologists about the quality of food in the years to come are compounded by forecasts of increasing uncertainties regarding the quantities of food that will be available globally. These concerns, expressed early on in studies by MIT for the Club of Rome, were largely ignored at a time when it appeared that increases in resource availability would outstrip increases in consumption. However, the rapid depletion of agricultural surpluses has clearly manifested the urgency of the problem of how to Feed the Planet and prevent hunger (from Wikipedia). More information on the exposition is available on the Expo 2015 website.
Today we feature Milan (ancient Mediolanum). The city is located in northern Italy, and it is also the capital of Milan Province and of Lombardy Region. It is the second largest Italian city in population (after Rome), and also a leading commercial, financial, and manufacturing city and a major centre of intellectual and artistic life. These two images captured by the Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 satellites with a time window (before / after) of 29 years, aim to show changes around the urban area where the Expo 2015 (see the images acquired in 2015) is located. The large white cluster visible to the northeast of the city shows the area where the expo is taking place, and is pictured one month before the exhibition opened. Another aim of these images is to promote the opportunity to download Landsat data through the ESA portals, where images captured every day are made available in near real time to the users and the scientific community. Landsat full resolution data products are freely available for immediate download at: 
View Landsat 8 OLI high resolution image (JPG 415 KB) View Landsat 8 OLI high resolution image Pan + Multi (JPG 1.3 MB)
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