March 6, 2019
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Last year i mentioned that the USGS had recently extended recording of nighttime images with Landsat at high latitudes in summer and also showed some examples from the northern summer for this. For the southern summer we also get more … Continue reading
March 3, 2019
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I have not shown a lot of satellite images recently – for those who start missing them here a few winter impressions from the northern hemisphere from January and February this year. The first one is an early morning image … Continue reading
January 14, 2019
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It took me somewhat longer this time but i have prepared my traditional yearly report on open data satellite image acquisition numbers – for Sentinel2 and Landsat – for the October 2017 to October 2018 time frame. See last year’s … Continue reading
October 18, 2018
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Back in July 2017 when the first Sentinel-3 Level-2 data was released i did not write a detailed report like i did for the Level-1 data because i wanted to wait for the rest of the products – which are … 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
July 9, 2018
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Continuing on the late evening Landsat images recorded this year in larger number by the USGS here a few more if these featuring various areas in northern Europe and Asia from late June and early July: In the northern Ural … Continue reading
June 29, 2018
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It is midsummer here and i have for the occasion two satellite image mosaics made from Sentinel-2 data. The first one is from the north showing spring thawing in northeastern Russia at the Arctic Ocean coast. Contrast between the southern … 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
June 5, 2018
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Quite a few things have happened in the world of open data satellite images since i last reported on satellite image news. The most significant change is that Sentinel-2 is now recording significantly more images in most parts of the … Continue reading
May 8, 2018
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Kind of balancing the recently shown imagery of the northern polar region i here introduce a number of new satellite image mosaics from the south of all the Subantarctic Islands. These islands – similar to some parts of the Arctic … Continue reading
April 25, 2018
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Continuing from the previous post here as promised more examples for application of pixel statistics methods to Landsat and Sentinel-2 data and how this can help to produce more accurate colors. I have mentioned before that based on the spectral … Continue reading
April 21, 2018
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As regular readers of this blog know i have produced quite a few satellite image mosaic products over the past years and reviewed the work of others in that field as well. New products of this type have been introduced … Continue reading