satellite imagery

Reach of a deadly wildfire in South Korea

Maps / Reuters, satellite imagery, South Korea, wildfire

South Korea experienced its largest and most deadly wildfire last month in Uiseong…
Palisades fire, seen from above

Maps / Palisades, satellite imagery, wildfire

Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades…
Drying of the Aral Sea and its source rivers

Maps / Aral Sea, climate change, NPR, satellite imagery

NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has…
Seen from space: Hurricane Milton approaches

Maps / hurricane, NOAA, satellite imagery

NOAA has a viewer for their GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) system, which…
Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts

Maps / basketball, Matt Daniels, OpenStreetMap, Pudding, satellite imagery

For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…
Spell your name with satellite imagery

Maps / Landsat, names, NASA, satellite imagery

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…
Access to nature where you live

Statistical Visualization / cities, nature, NatureQuant, satellite imagery, Washington Post

NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They…
Using satellite imagery to tell stories

Maps / Nightingale, Robert Simmon, satellite imagery, storytelling

Satellite imagery on its own can be limited in what it can say…
Mile-by-mile map along the path of totality

Maps / eclipse, satellite imagery, Washington Post

On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun…
Using satellite imagery to assess the damage in Ukraine

Maps / damage, Economist, satellite imagery, Ukraine, war

The Economist combined two satellite imagery sources, one that estimates fire events and…
$300b World Cup seen through satellite imagery

Maps / Bloomberg, Qatar, satellite imagery, World Cup

Qatar spent $300 billion with a ‘b’ over the past twelve years to…
Wildfires and floods, a geographic before and after

Maps / Gordon Logie, satellite imagery, wildfire

In 2021, a large portion of North America was stuck in a heat…
Scale of Ukrainian cities

Maps / satellite imagery, scale, Ukraine, Washington Post

When you look inside the cities around the world, you will often find…
Scale of the Tonga eruption

Maps / Reuters, satellite imagery, scale, Tonga, volcano

Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of…
Sand mining viewed from above

Infographics / mining, Poyang Lake, Reuters, satellite imagery

Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, but sand mining has changed its…
Average color of geographic areas

Maps / color, Erin Davis, R, satellite imagery

Based on satellite imagery, Erin Davis found the average color of places around…
Satellite imagery at a cute angle

Maps / Robert Simmon, satellite imagery

Maybe you remember the SimCity-like views through satellite imagery from a few of…
Red-blue electoral map and the green-gray in satellite imagery

Maps / electoral, Krishna Karra, machine learning, satellite imagery, Tim Wallace

For NYT’s The Upshot, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra looked at how the…
DIY satellite ground station to receive images from NOAA

Data Sharing / NOAA, satellite imagery

You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving…
Urban growth via satellite imagery

Maps / Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui, satellite imagery, Upshot

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…

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