Blue Marble Map Download

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.

Blue marble map download.

Night lights 2012 the black marble. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date. Equally well suited as a standalone spatial data management tool and as an integral component of an enterprise wide gis global mapper is a must have for anyone who works with maps. 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.

Published december 6 2012. Next generation offers a year s worth of. 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. Download gis software by blue marble geographics including global mapper geographic calculator and geographic tracker.

Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s. Nasa s blue marble pictures of earth show each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. Fewer people know that nasa also studies earth. Developed for both gis professionals and map enthusiasts global mapper has all the functionality you need in a gis software for a fraction of comparable products.

The next generation blue marble everyone knows that nasa studies space. 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. 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.