August 20, 2020
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Last week there were a few days of exceptionally good weather in parts of the Russian arctic and this allowed me to assemble a cloud free satellite image mosaic of Severnaya Zemlya – an archipelago i have featured here on … Continue reading
July 15, 2019
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Someone at some point in the last few weeks seemed to have managed to put the idea into the mind of journalists that there are wildfires burning in the Arctic and this being a exceptionally newsworthy story somehow. These reports … Continue reading
September 19, 2018
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This year’s northern hemisphere summer – while bringing a lot of dry and sunny weather in Europe – was a fairly moderate summer in the Arctic with relatively limited good satellite image recording possibilities in particular at very high latitudes. … Continue reading
June 8, 2018
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In the previous post i showed an example for the extended high latitude ascending orbit coverage recorded this year by Landsat 8. Here another example of the Island of Jan Mayen with the unusual late evening sun position and a … Continue reading
October 5, 2017
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It’s autumn and the leaves are starting to change colors – matching that here a few impressions from the autumn in the north from satellite perspective. The first is from the Yukon River at the Alaska-Yukon border: Here two magnified … Continue reading
September 6, 2017
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I wrote about the problem of positional accuracy of satellite images before on several occasions. Working with images from the Arctic for the update of the Franz Josef Land map again i realized a few things i wanted to share … Continue reading
September 2, 2017
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I have updated the Franz Josef Land map with new data based on mostly 2016 Sentinel-2 imagery and also using a relief rendering primarily based on ArcticDEM data as a test case for the new data set. Franz Josef Land … Continue reading
September 1, 2017
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Some readers have already been waiting for this – i have now completed my initial review of the ArcticDEM elevation data set which is being produced and published in several stages during this year by the University of Minnesota and … Continue reading
August 22, 2017
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Thanks to pretty good weather in large parts of Greenland during July and early August there is some good satellite image material available for Greenland from this year. I took this opportunity to assemble two evening images, both of them … Continue reading
June 3, 2017
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A few more satellite images from spring in the Arctic – this time featuring the northmost settlements on Earth. The northmost permanent settlement on the planet is and has been for a long time the weather station and military base … Continue reading