For some reason it didn't come to my attention until recently (less than a year ago) that the entire Landsat imagery plus a lot of data from other Earth orbiting spacecraft is freely available for download at http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ . Maybe this is because for a long time it was more difficult to find good and freely available global maps (or get data to make maps) of the Earth than it was for other planets/satellites - I somehow was under the impression that the vast majority of Earth imagery was commercial.
The Earth is visually a really spectacular planet (in my opinion possibly even the most photogenic body in the entire solar system) so it's possible to get spectacular results by downloading some of this data. The data can be selected by spacecraft, instrument, location, months/years, cloud cover percentage etc.
Data is available from several Landsat satellites but the best data is from Landsat 7; Landsat 5 is also good. This is multispectral data with a resolution of 30 meters/pixel. Here is an experimental and spectacular 12 frame mosaic showing southern Greenland (10% the original size):
Landsat 8 was launched in February. Following a period of checkouts and calibrations it started regular operations in late May. Below is a mosaic of three Landsat 8 images showing a part of northern Iceland. The full size version (12020x18130 pixels) can be http://www.mmedia.is/bjj/images/landsat8_iceland_20130604.jpg, the version below is 30% of the original size:
There are some other satellites where color processing can be considered of the land surface and clouds. This includes quite a few spectral bands in DISCOVR - https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/d/dscovr (near future - as discussed in http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1992), VIIRS, and GOES-R ABI (future).
So for the present, we can consider VIIRS polar orbiter also having http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/npp/VIIRS_bands_and_bandwidths.pdf.
GOES-R ABI will have good rapid update frequency (just minutes) in geosynchronous orbit, though it only has http://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/ABI-tech-summary.html.
Some other geosynchronous weather satellites (apart from GOES) have or will have multiple visible bands.
Steve
Here are some processed, retimed sequences from ISS courtesy of NASA & Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit...
https://flic.kr/p/YH5m7q
https://flic.kr/p/ZLRPZW
https://flic.kr/p/FWFpZP
THANK YOU! Works of art.
It is indeed running backwards. I should have specified this, sorry. It took an age to get this rendered and it slipped my mind. Purely an aesthetic choice.
Spellbinding, Sean.
Moonlight Flight
https://flic.kr/p/21GLeor
https://youtu.be/XNHqYB82a4M
Expedition 53
November 5, 2017 from 22:29:56 to 23:03:24 GMT
From the South Atlantic Ocean to Kazakhstan
Original timelapse extended x3, many repairs & processed.
‘Kangaru’ by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Very nice. Thank You!
Here is the same source material re-tweened in 60fps to approximate real time based on 1,998 source frame count & 22:29:56 to 23:03:24 time stamps
3 minute sequence on Flickr...
https://flic.kr/p/221C4TS
https://youtu.be/nVtuCyVQk1k
I took care to choose footage that contained no lightning as that would spoil the intent, though it is possible to repair those flashes before tweening and re-insert them during real time pass.
Africa to Japan
https://flic.kr/p/238jif4
Expedition 34
January 4, 2013 from 05:23:00 to 05:56:16 GMT
From the border of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo to just east of Japan.
Original timelapse extended x5 & processed.
'Odi et Amo' by Jóhann Jóhannsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOXPVVA6P7U
Source extended x60 to approximate real time ( 3 minute excerpt )
https://flic.kr/p/21MYK5r
https://youtu.be/3mndCBfAT7c
Finally after a 22 hour process & 3 hour upload
https://youtu.be/9mCgb-ff3U0
'Somnus' by Phaeleh
I made a movie.
https://flic.kr/p/243PBc1
https://youtu.be/M8vsELTVZSQ
Music by Phaeleh
Orbit is a real time reconstruction of time lapse photography taken on board the International Space Station by NASA's Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit.
The structure of the film is built around a nested selection of Phaeleh's last three albums; Lost Time, Illusion of the Tale & Somnus. The tone & pacing of each track influenced the choice of material used.
Typically each time lapse sequence was photographed at 1 frame per second.
Each sequence was processed in Photoshop. A dirtmap was made in order to repair dust, blemishes and hot pixel artifacts that would otherwise confuse the re-timing phase of the workflow resulting in strobes and distracting blurs.
Image processing techniques were used to emphasize features on the Earth's surface. Every sequence consists of a number of layers that when masked, processed & blended correctly produce the final look of each shot.
To make sure each sequence was recreated faithfully to the actual rate of speed observed I referenced time-stamps on the first and last frame in the sequence and used frame interpolation software to produce the other 59 frames.
The length of the film is exactly the length of time it takes ISS to orbit the Earth once, 92 minutes & 39 seconds.
'Cebile'
Tropical Cyclone Cebile from January 30th as photographed by Himawari8 [time-lapse] & ISS ESRSU [ real time time-lapse reconstruct ]
https://flic.kr/p/236uJKN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyDjyD8bTQ
Volcano Sinabung time-lapse interpolation from Himawari8
https://flic.kr/p/21LCLN7
Sean - wonderful Cebile animations with the stadium view. The volcano is pretty nice as well. A couple of things I've been studying recently are forest fires and dust storms if you ever come across these phenomena.
Eye of Gita
https://flic.kr/p/247LyiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI4T5XCqMDc
Upscaled, cropped, resized to 4k, processed and retimed.
Nice Thanks Sean
Thanks Paul!
GITA
https://flic.kr/p/H6n8qu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsYixXUyYI
Filled in time-lapse gaps for the Himawari footage before re-timing.
For the new real time shot I repaired, stabilized, de-flickered, processed, cropped & retimed.
NASA Earth posted this image recently so I decided to clean all the crud from ISS windows & reduce jpg artifacts...
https://flic.kr/p/FCqdza
Really neat ORBIT movie from Sean that I'm just catching up on - particularly with the leisurely real-time aspect. Here is an evolving attempt at rendering a portion of the Gibraltar view at about 2:05. Aiming at true color/contrast the image looks relatively subdued. The snow on the mountains helps provide reference points to compare locations.
Thanks Steve... that's pretty close to the source... obviously 'Orbit' is quite processed which I hope doesn't burn your retina much. I'd be interested to know what global maps you are using.
Cloudheads mosaic + details. ( stitched, processed, repaired )
https://flic.kr/p/25WMMDa
https://flic.kr/p/24yFZhY
https://flic.kr/p/24yFYLY
https://flic.kr/p/25WMKWx
Nice cloud view Sean - this type of image would be interesting to holistically check atmospheric model output. The simulated Gibraltar images are driven with land surface albedo derived from 500m Blue Marble Next Generation image data. Terrain is from an old 1km USGS database. I added in some synthetic aerosols, though there are models that try to produce them in real-time.
This simulated version of Gibraltar has improved land brightness compared with post #22. The radiance calculations for scattered light and reflected light are now being handled more consistently.
Saudi Cloudscape from ISS expedition 47
https://flic.kr/p/MEvVyW
https://flic.kr/p/29HSUTJ
8 frame composite made from raw file with some fill & repair
*updated with correct exposure
Here is a very quick test of a retimed time-lapse made from raw files.... big quality improvement over the standard JPG compressed files.
https://flic.kr/p/29Udxsr
https://youtu.be/ydmtn9CEmAg
Nile Night
https://flic.kr/p/29UgtKF
Sky River
https://flic.kr/p/NzVo8y
https://youtu.be/Nd2QQ4rZagY & https://vimeo.com/287986661
Sean, thank you so much. ART!
https://flic.kr/p/29Qm3T3
4k on https://youtu.be/G4W5ljxPq98 & https://vimeo.com/289013988
https://flic.kr/p/28akS7S
9th September 2018
https://flic.kr/p/29yAvAv
4k on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0y62Pd3lSM & https://vimeo.com/289158150
https://flic.kr/p/2aUsut5
4k on https://youtu.be/zu3h6dDBFBw & https://vimeo.com/289309818
https://flic.kr/p/28papKu
6 days of Typhoon Mangkhut
4k version on https://vimeo.com/290241206
Typhoon Mangkhut, projected, 8k
https://flic.kr/p/29MyTCn
September 13th
Typhoon Mangkhut projected [animation]
https://flic.kr/p/MqgrXK
September 13
Looks very nice Sean. I wonder if these recent examples are also using time interpolation (optical flow)?
Nice to know. FYI, the GOES-16 mesoscale sectors have images for Hurricane Michael in one-minute timesteps. I suppose one can downscale the time, zooming into the eye to see time steps of just seconds.
There is some experimental GOES-17 imagery (not yet public) that has real images on a 6-second time scale.
GOES-16 "raw" image data is available on the AWS cloud if one wants to get this type of data - perhaps you already are.
Ah that is good information to have Steve, thanks. I may ping you later on that.
For those that rightfully avoid social media I thought I would share a time-lapse of the recent Progress re-supply launch...
https://flic.kr/p/2d1NsMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PXah9WLEU
Super, Seán.
John
Rocket Launch
https://flic.kr/p/2c2XqMm
https://youtu.be/1S0CTtY8Qa0
Progress MS-10 resupply ship bound for ISS launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as seen from the International Space Station on November 16th, 2018.
Great work as always, Sean. (The last video you linked only goes up to 1080p though)
Individual images from the timelapse can be found here: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-CoolIris.pl?results=154306473171881
It's interesting to analyse the images to spot specific stages of the launch.
Here's the moment the rocket discarded its four strap-on boosters: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS057&roll=E&frame=100819
Thank you so much Sean for the very IMPRESSIVE video and for Wildespace to outline the most important visual steps of the launch
Congratulations for both of you
Thanks for that breakdown Wildespace.
It takes Youtube a while to process 4k versions but it should show up eventually.
Re-watching this I can spot a number of interpolation glitches I will need to repair so there will probably be a v2 when I can find the time.
*Update*
Youtube 4k is still pending... here is the https://vimeo.com/302734559
Earth photographed from NASA's Lunar Orbiter V in 1967:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47222633@N05/46030301661/
Italian Blue
https://flic.kr/p/29n3m6U
https://youtu.be/bhmPi5mJFdU
In The Emerald
https://flic.kr/p/29qvG4s
https://youtu.be/BgKc7Dy8Fvo
Star Sky
https://flic.kr/p/2c63jwz
https://youtu.be/y-bcBwlVwek
An enhanced view of the sun glint in the Pacific today from the CIRA Slider Website:
http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-16&z=1&im=12&ts=1&st=20190118220034&et=20190119004534&speed=130&motion=loop&map=1&lat=0&opacity%5B0%5D=1&hidden%5B0%5D=0&pause=0&slider=-1&hide_controls=0&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&sec=full_disk&p%5B0%5D=geocolor&x=5161&y=12655
Here is another film compiled from ISS time-lapse sequences converted to real-time ( except for night sequences which are x2 )
https://ibb.co/T2ggtdc
https://youtu.be/loOVYBSkLXQ
...and an earlier effort I forgot to share...
https://ibb.co/WKtkvTp
https://youtu.be/RkEV4FljRaM
A single orbit of Earth by the International Space Station in real-time, 408km above the surface.
Made with 9,966 time-lapse photographs from ISS Expedition 57, taken on October 6th 2018.
Here is a roundup of recent clips
Edge of Darkness
https://flic.kr/p/2ei2RLU
https://www.flickr.com/redirect?url=https://youtu.be/r08GHSAf8tE
Dr. Soyuzlove
https://flic.kr/p/2fddUsV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1d7XZdWpo
Earthbound
https://flic.kr/p/2edtykc
https://youtu.be/LRgouh7VLJQ
https://youtu.be/xYcNFlUDgJk
Sean. You are a great a film lover. Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite films. Your video almost made me cry. Thanks.
Nice to see the oblique clouds with the sun-glint and shadows in "Earthbound" - key ingredients for realistic simulations. Also just plain fun and inspiring to watch.
In the beginning of "Orbit: Uncut", it's neat to see the color of the sun shift from orange/yellow as it rises through the troposphere, then switches over to white and blue as it enters the stratosphere with the ozone, then back to white as it gets up higher. The idea of a blue sunrise is really out of this world.
'Nocturne'
https://flic.kr/p/2iHTerj
...sequel to https://youtu.be/7KXGZAEWzn0.
9 sequences of Night on Earth from Space in real-time.
https://flic.kr/p/2iHVYw1
https://youtu.be/8gPzIKe92-M
Waltz of the Stars
Cosmic Views from the International Space Station
photographed by ISS astronauts Thomas Pesquet, Megan McArthur, Terry Virts, Alex Gerst, Shane Kimbrough & Jack Fischer
Here it is on https://youtu.be/DETb68nNZ2A
Time-lapse cadence varies and some shots I've doubled playback because cadence offset was irregular and returned stutters.
I'll dig into the file dates for the planets shot. My guess is Moon & Venus.
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