Blue Marble Viewer

Next generation offers a year s worth of.

Blue marble viewer.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites. Subscribe to the blue marble monthly newsletter to stay up to date with inside information about upcoming product releases special offers training opportunities software tutorials and a chance to win a copy of global mapper each month.

Blue marble viewer on open scene graph. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Published december 6 2012.

Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day. Since then there have been numerous downloads of the executable and data by interested individuals.

With a particular emphasis on terrain and 3d data processing global mapper s out of the box analysis functions include view shed and line of site modeling watershed delineation volume measurement and cut and fill optimization raster calculation customized gridding and terrain creation contour generation and much more. Because of the size of the data it was being kindly hosted by another site. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.

It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.