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
April 20, 2018
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Today ten years ago the USGS started opening the full Landsat image archive as open data. Although this was not the first release of satellite imagery as open data – a selection of Landsat images was already opened before and … Continue reading
February 28, 2018
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Here two Winter impressions from Northern Europe – the first is from Northern Russia showing the city of Archangelsk: You can see the frozen Northern Dvina River and the likewise mostly frozen White Sea. Well visible in the low sun … Continue reading
February 23, 2018
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Some news on open data satellite images: I updated the satellite image coverage visualizations. Here is the matching coverage volume plot over time: There are several important things you can see in that: With Landsat 8 the USGS has for … Continue reading
February 12, 2018
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I produced a new cloud free satellite image mosaic of Crete in Winter: The image is based on Landsat data from 2016 to 2018. You can find it on services.imagico.de if you are interested in a license or print.
January 27, 2018
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Over the last days i added a number of images to the OSM images for mapping produced from Sentinel-2 and Landsat data. There are three new images for the Antarctic: McMurdo Bay area This image covers the McMurdo Sound, McMurdo … Continue reading
January 1, 2018
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A happy 2018 to all readers – with two recent images from the last year. From the southern hemisphere a Sentinel-3 OLCI image of the Falkland Islands And from the north a Landsat winter image of southern Iceland
November 15, 2017
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I have a somewhat different satellite image than usual here: This is a strip of nine Landsat scenes recording parts of Alaska in early Winter from a few days back. I rotated this to align roughly with the satellite recording … Continue reading