August 28, 2014
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I just saw that the NASA has recently started fairly prominent use of of OpenStreetMap data in their Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS). This is a neat service offering various near real time satellite data products for use in web … Continue reading
August 24, 2014
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This year’s summer weather in Northern Greenland has been quite good, much better than 2013 so a lot of good quality Landsat images are available to assemble a mosaic of the Northeast Greenland coast – one of the most remarkable … Continue reading
August 17, 2014
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As a byproduct of producing the Green Marble mosaic a global vegetation data set was generated as well. I now processed this further for use in maps and also designed a new map style focussed on vegetation for showing this: … Continue reading
August 13, 2014
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In its newest issue National Geographic Magazine has published a map of Franz Josef Land partly based on my map data: The map is made in the typical National Geographic style and is shown on the website with three different … Continue reading
August 12, 2014
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Here a recent view of the South Sandwich Islands assembled from Landsat images from a few days ago. The image mosaic shows most of the islands except the northmost ones which are hidden under clouds. Generally winter is the time … Continue reading
August 11, 2014
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Earlier this year i showed some examples how shading information in satellite images can be used to improve elevation data with additional details. Since then i have occasionally been looking into how such techniques can be also used outside polar … Continue reading
August 6, 2014
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I have produced a new generalized coastline data set you can download and also put together a new update of my coastline data quality analysis. The main news is: The generalized coastlines are now – at least for the moment … Continue reading
August 3, 2014
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With all the recent winter images from the southern hemisphere here for balance also a view from the north of the west coast of Greenland. It shows the Ilulissat Fjord at the bottom, one of the most remarkable features of … Continue reading