September 22, 2022
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Autumn 2022 is starting on the northern hemisphere so here two impressions of early fall colors, the first from Kamchatka: The second from Canada, from the lower end of the Great Slave lake near Fort Providence where the Yellowknife Highway … Continue reading
January 2, 2022
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The volcanic eruption that strongly reshaped the island of La Palma since it began in September 2021 seems to have ended during the last days of the last year. Here is a before-after comparison based on Sentinel-2 image data comparing … Continue reading
December 24, 2021
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Extensive snowfall is pretty common on the plateaus of the North American West in Winter. The white of the snow, the reddish colors of the rocks in the region and the gray-green of the winterly coniferous forests make for a … Continue reading
December 14, 2021
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The Antarctic satellite image observation season has already started a few months ago meanwhile. Here are – somewhat late – two impressions from the beginning of the 2021/2022 Antarctic season. The first is a rare sunrise glimpse of the McMurdo … Continue reading
October 10, 2021
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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
March 22, 2021
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I am a bit late this year but i wanted to continue with my tradition to publish a yearly analysis of the recordings of the two currently operating high resolution open data producing earth observation satellites recording in images in … Continue reading
January 28, 2021
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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
August 28, 2020
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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
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
June 10, 2020
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When i announced the Green Marble mosaic version 2 mosaic recently i mentioned that the land coloring is based on MODIS data while the water color is created from Sentinel-3 data. There are multiple reasons for this choice of data … Continue reading