Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones? |
Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones? |
Mar 8 2007, 04:17 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
There are tons of Earth observing satellites producing gorgeous detailed images, but I'm trying to figure out if any of them is capable of producing full-globe images of Earth on some regularly updated basis. Does anyone here know of such a beast? Are there weather monitoring satellites that do this?
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Apr 22 2011, 12:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Good catch! It is indeed the Neogene-Miocene period as the last step in the animated gif. The work that Stu originally referred to was done in collaboration by Dr. Ron Blakely of Northern Arizona University. (The animations in the wikipedia entry were done by Dr. Ron Blakely.)
Here is his website that has individual maps of each of the paleo-reconstructions (including Pleistocene and Present) : http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/mollglobe.html And a website to other detailed data products: http://cpgeosystems.com/index.html I recently got a copy of his (beautifully illustrated) book: "Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau", mentioned on his site. I highly recommend it. -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Aug 14 2011, 12:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1645 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Good catch! It is indeed the Neogene-Miocene period as the last step in the animated gif. The work that Stu originally referred to was done in collaboration by Dr. Ron Blakely of Northern Arizona University. (The animations in the wikipedia entry were done by Dr. Ron Blakely.) Here is his website that has individual maps of each of the paleo-reconstructions (including Pleistocene and Present) : http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/mollglobe.html And a website to other detailed data products: http://cpgeosystems.com/index.html I recently got a copy of his (beautifully illustrated) book: "Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau", mentioned on his site. I highly recommend it. Yes, this is a good dataset. We've used a smoother version of this animation in Science On A Sphere. http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Land/paleo.html A frame exists for the future projection of the continents. I've considering making an augmented version of the animation that incorporates this into the future. Steve -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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