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
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
March 2, 2014
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Spring is coming with the flowers and first trees starting to blossom here – at the same time light is returning to the Arctic after the winter. Calling this spring is an exaggeration but here is one of the first … Continue reading
February 11, 2014
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Since showing the greener planet vegetation maximum mosaic i extended processing to cover the whole Arctic. You can see the results below in a zoomable map together with layers showing the vegetation data used during processing. Compared to the Europe … Continue reading
September 9, 2013
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One interesting feature of the new Landsat 8 satellite launched earlier this year is the capability to record off-nadir images. Normally earth observation satellites look straight down at the earth surface. The capability to tilt the view sidewards allows recording … Continue reading
March 12, 2013
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With a bit of delay my sea ice coverage images are now again using higher resolution sea ice data. After a satellite instrument failure i had to resort to lower resolution data but thanks to a new Japanese satellite carrying … Continue reading
December 5, 2012
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As a followup to the redesigned ice coverage images i also looked again into earth views with cloud cover. I showed clouds in previous Images but displaying clouds in a 3d earth render is difficult for two reasons: first clouds … Continue reading
December 1, 2012
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I worked a bit on the renderings of the sea ice coverage at the Views of the Earth and i think the results give a more pleasant impression. See for yourself on the Views of the Earth sea ice coverage … Continue reading