August 24, 2015
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Some might have noticed that in spring i skipped my usual report on the OpenStreetMap coastline data quality. I have now prepared a whole year update on that as well as a similar report on the glacier data (where my … Continue reading
August 22, 2015
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Here a recent Landsat image showing the return of the sun to the Antarctic after the southern hemisphere winter. The location is near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula at Seymour Island with the eastern end of James Ross Island … Continue reading
August 19, 2015
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After producing the Franz Josef Land map and the Severnaya Zemlya map i have now completed another similar map of the third large group of islands in the Russian Arctic: Novaya Zemlya. Novaya Zemlya is located south of Franz Josef … Continue reading
August 3, 2015
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Last week we had a few days of extraordinarily sunny weather in large parts of the Eurasian Arctic – see here for an overall view. So i created a new Summer mosaic of Franz Josef Land complementing the winter view … Continue reading
May 25, 2015
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Here is a particularly interesting spring Landsat image from the Arctic showing October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya. The area shown is located here: and shows two fairly spectactular phenomemena. The first is the streak of wind blown dust at the … Continue reading
May 18, 2015
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This image is based on a Landsat scene already two months old but none the less seems interesting enough to feature here. It shows the Bay of Whales at the Antarctic coast which is the southmost point of open ocean … Continue reading
February 5, 2015
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After the recent waterbody data reprocessing i also updated the glacier data in my maps. This now includes complete mapping of the glaciers of the Russian Arctic which is also available as a separate data set. The Russian glaciers are … Continue reading
September 29, 2014
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Meanwhile more than a year ago i imported extensive data in OpenStreetMap for Antarctica much of which is showing the delineation of ice and ice free areas. Still none of the widely used OpenStreetMap based maps is showing this data. … Continue reading
September 1, 2014
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While summer is coming to an end here in the north light is coming back to Antarctica these days. Currently we are approaching the maximum sea ice extent until the raising sun will start melting the ice in October. Here … 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