October 10, 2021
by chris
0 comments
Together with the two Landsat image visualizations i showed for the Landsat 9 launch featuring northern hemisphere autumn impressions i have added two more Sentinel-2 images to the catalog on services.imagico.de as well. The first is a fairly clear early … Continue reading
September 27, 2021
by chris
0 comments
Today Landsat 9 was launched. As i mentioned before i typically do not discuss Earth observation satellite launches here because the more interesting and practically meaningful date is when the data starts becoming available. But i make an exception for … Continue reading
September 25, 2021
by chris
0 comments
Satellite images and their use have become much more popular in recent years. There was already an earlier wave of broader popularization of satellite imagery with image layers being widely introduced in popular map services on the internet between about … Continue reading
September 13, 2021
by chris
0 comments
The title of this section should be interpreted loosely this time – i have not discussed new developments in the domain in general for some time now so some of the news are more than a year old already. There … Continue reading
September 3, 2021
by chris
1 Comment
I am pleased to announce an update to my global satellite image product Green Marble. The Green Marble is a medium resolution whole earth image offering an unsurpassed uniformity in quality across the whole planet surface on both water and … Continue reading
January 28, 2021
by chris
0 comments
Compared to the previous years this winter seems to turn out to be relatively snow rich in many parts of Europe. On this occasion here a few satellite image impressions of that. First a view of snow in the lower … Continue reading
December 16, 2020
by chris
0 comments
The large iceberg that has broken off the Antarctic peninsula in 2017 and that has slowly drifted across the Drake Passage during the past year – i showed some pictures from the beginning of that journey already – has now … Continue reading
October 12, 2020
by chris
0 comments
After more than a year without changes i added a number of new images for mapping in OpenStreetMap to my collection. The reason for the gap was that i needed to make some changes to allow the setup to scale … Continue reading
October 2, 2020
by chris
0 comments
Some impressions from this year’s autumn from a satellite perspective. The first one is a glimpse of eastern Franz Josef Land (most prominently featuring Graham Bell Island and Wilczek Land) with a mixture of the last traces of summer thaw … Continue reading
August 28, 2020
by chris
0 comments
I have shown both summer and winter images of the South Sandwich Islands here before but a recent good weather window offered an opportunity for a much better winter view based on Sentinel-2 data. Sea ice extent is pretty far … Continue reading