2012-10-15
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SpaceDaily, April 2008:
SpaceDaily has now learned that a plan to salvage AMC-14 was abandoned a week ago when SES gave up in the face of patent issues relating to the lunar flyby process used to bring wayward GEO birds back to GEO Earth orbit.
2012-09-25
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An average of the last 303 days of Modis Terra’s arctic mosaics by Charlie Loyd.
This is a fascinating piece of work. Charlie Loyd is also working on automatic cloud removal, as described on this Flickr photo (from this sequence):
For a long time I’ve been interested in blind* cloud removal from true-color satellite images.
To make this sequence, I took this series of raw satellite images, stacked them, and sorted each z-axis column (so pixel 0,0 of all images, pixel 0,1 of all images, …) according to the quality function below. Then I sliced each horizontal (x,y) plane off the volume and got these images.
This ends up being a reasonable approximation, to my eye, of underlying ground cover. In practice, to even out biases like preferring muddy water over clear water, I would average the last two rows or so, which looks like this.
2012-09-20
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Satellite view near Hamburg, Germany.
Somewhere between glitch and new-aesthetic.
2012-05-30
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Rare Cloud-Free Satellite Image of the UK
Taken 26/05/12. Full resolution version can be found here
Previously in British Isles From Space: cloud free, 26th March (so, not quite that rare, eh?); snowed in, 7th January 2011.
2012-05-25
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Navstar by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr:
Providing continuous global coverage in all weather, the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System will give suitably equipped users three-dimensional positioning and velocity information and a precise timing reference in real time. Besides routine navigation, possible applications include search-and-rescue operations, land and aerial rendezvous, and geodetic surveys.
This Rockwell International promotional image presumably predates the launch of the first NAVSTAR satellite in 1978.
2012-04-13
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Transmission by Dan Holdsworth, via Architizer:
At first glance, British artist Dan Holdsworth’s work might depict any number of things: crumpled up paper napkins, a washed-out image from the surface of Mars, or even microscopic fractal patterns.
In fact, the images are 3D renderings of America’s most famous natural wonders. There’s the Grand Canyon, Mount Saint Helens, and the Great Salt Lake: by cloaking the models in a featureless white, Holdsworth shows us America’s “backyard” as a scaleless study in texture and detail.
Holdsworth worked from digital terrain models created by the United States Geological Survey Data to create the series, called Transmission: New Remote Earth Views.
There’s a lot more at the artist’s site, including more conventional in-landscape views. The series is being exhibited at the Brancolini Grimaldi gallery in London until 19 May 2012.
2012-04-09
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Container port, Long Beach, California, US. From Curating the globe, Part 1 at refractal.
