I have several of these in photo form from my days maintaining the ground system of the DMSP satellites. The customers for the data (Air Force Global Weather Central - that's changed to I know not what) would stitch together images from the primary sensor, the Optical LIne Scanner in either fine or coarse visible light bands. The most fascinating picture I received from those days is a daylight picture of North America during an unusual Arctic express. The land mass is perfectly clear but every coastal area has a cloud bank starting at the water's edge that looks like it's exploding out over the ocean.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov<mailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov> SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov<mailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov<mailto:dopa...@doe.ic.gov> (send NIPR reminder) On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Rich Murray wrote: cloud free night views of USA and of Earth via NASA satellite -- much change since I went to college in 1960...: Rich Murray 2012.12.05 Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC (Phys.org<http://Phys.org>) -- Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before. This image of the continental United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-satellite-reveals-views-earth-night.html#jCp http://phys.org/news/2012-12-satellite-reveals-views-earth-night.html#nwlt http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/nasanoaasate.jpg USA http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/satelliterev.jpg World ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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