January 15, 2024
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Back in July i introduced the Musaicum EU-plus – a 10m resolution satellite image mosaic of Europe. I have now finalized two additional variants of this image that i would like to introduce here. Both of them are fairly specialized … Continue reading
September 12, 2019
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I have been working during the past few months on a number of technical improvements for better quality in 3d views. These i want to introduce here together with a number of images from the Kashmir/Karakoram/Pamir region which is well … Continue reading
August 2, 2019
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Some time ago i introduced a new technique for producing accurate color mosaics from Landsat and Sentinel-2 data using pixel statistics methods. Here now some larger area 3d views of Europe produced using this imagery allowing for a more accurate … Continue reading
July 30, 2019
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I have a bit of a backlog of 3d views i have not yet introduced here on the blog and which i am trying to work through in the next few posts. The first is a set of globe views … Continue reading
January 21, 2018
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Many on my readers probably have heard about the company Mapzen closing down. In that context the Mapzen CEO Randy Meech has published (or more precisely: re-published) a piece on volatileness and permanence in tech business which reminded me of … Continue reading
March 3, 2016
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After the Landsat mosaic of Scandinavia i also produced a shading compensated version of this image to use for creating new 3d views of the area. Here are a few examples from the coast of northern Norway produced based on … Continue reading
September 22, 2015
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Supplemental to the Svalbard mosaic here some 3d views of the area created using this and elevation data from the Norwegian Polar Institute (CC-BY-4.0 license). The NPI data is detailed but quite outdated in large parts – here a map … Continue reading
August 13, 2015
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I put up a number of new 3d views of the Alps on the services.imagico.de catalog that were – like the previous images – created based on the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps. In addition you can … Continue reading
June 20, 2015
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Digital elevation data is an important basis of map production and geodata processing these days. I have written about elevation data sources and use of such data previously on several occasions. SRTM data is the most widely used elevation data … Continue reading
May 21, 2015
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After introducing the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps i also produced a shading compensated version. Here are a few new 3d renderings created using that image. In contrast to my earlier views of the Alps these show more … Continue reading