Look from the above at the shapes and geometry we use for cities,…
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Shapes we make, seen from the sky
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SimCity-like views using satellite imagery
Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…
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A daily high-resolution image of Earth
Planet monitors Earth with hundreds of satellites, and after six years, they’ve built…
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Landsat satellite imagery browser
Downloading and viewing satellite imagery is a bit of a process. There are…
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California looks green again
In case you didn’t hear, California had a bit of a drought problem…
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Detailed time-lapse of everywhere on Earth
A few years back, Google released a time-lapse feature in Google Earth that…
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Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border
There’s been a lot of talk about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican…
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Finding the wet princes of Bel Air
In case you didn’t know, there’s a drought here in California so there…
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Oil fires in Iraq seen from above
Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…
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Piecing together satellite images
You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
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Visual search tool for satellite imagery
Terrapattern is a fun prototype that lets you search satellite imagery simply by…
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Changing river path seen through satellite images
Sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester downloaded Landsat data using Earth Explorer and strung together…
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Practical guide for color correction of satellite images
Robert Simmon provides a hands-on guide to get true color from satellite imagery.…
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Satellite time-lapse of Earth
Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…
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Earth time-lapse from 22,000 miles out
Japan has a new weather satellite in stationary orbit, Himawari-8, that takes a…
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Satellite time-lapse shows changes on the ground
Since the 1970s, NASA has used satellites to take pictures of the Earth’s…
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The first photo of the United States by NASA satellite
In 1974, NASA published their first satellite photo of the contiguous United States…
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Earth as Art book from NASA
The Earth as Art is a compilation of NASA satellite imagery that shows…
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Income inequality seen in satellite images from Google Earth
Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the…
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Geography of incarceration
New York University graduate student Josh Begley grabbed 4,916 satellite images of prisons…