MetaFilter posts tagged with satellite and maps

Google Earth Typography

parudox — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:26:25 -0800

The alphabet in satellite imagery of Slavonia. [via]

Weather World 2010

Upton O'Good — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:26:36 -0800

The Weather World 2010 project at UIUC began as a comprehensive meteorology tutorial designed for a high school/undergraduate level. It has since expanded to include guides to remote sensing and reading weather maps. (Some highlights include optical effects, severe storms, and the basics of weather forecasting.) For folks in the US, it also has current surface and satellite imagery for a number of different atmospheric properties.

I Am The Eye In The Sky

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:17:02 -0800

Discoveries made using satellite imagery, particularly via Google Earth, have made headlines in the blue and green before. Increasingly high-resolution photos, combined with obsessive interest, have lead inevitably to the next step: interpretation and analysis of spots on the Earth's surface for which information is restricted, censored, or classified, such as the preparedness of military defenses in North Korea and Iran, or the viability of Saudi Arabia's next big oil play. Of course, not all mapping is benevolent.

Travelling by mouseclick

desjardins — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:10:20 -0800

The most interesting spots on Google maps.

Kadath in the Cold Waste

Artw — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:13:02 -0800

Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica UK and US researchers peice together the most detailed map of Antarctica yet, searching through years of data to find cloud free images.

The Objective Orbiting Eye in the Sky

trinarian — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:59:30 -0800

Live, From Outer Space: rural fires [1, 2], The Haze in China [1 ,2, 3] and its movement, aerosols, and the brothers carbon monoxide [a photochemical smog agent] and carbon dioxide.

Oprah From Space

Saucy Intruder — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:46:36 -0800

Oprahhhhh Froooooom Sppaaaaaaaaacccceee... and other interesting landmarks via The World According to Google.

Putting one over Google maps

marvin — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:49:09 -0800

Windows Live Local Orgasmically merges street level imagery with satellite to create virtual streetwalks (For Seattle or San Francisco anyway)

Google Maps UK

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:54:09 -0800

Google's UK satellite photos have been drastically improved

Freaky cool or just freaky?

mathowie — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:56:19 -0800

Google Maps now does satellite images which is pretty cool (zoom all the way in), and what everyone predicted they would do with the Keyhole software company they bought. The part that freaks me out is finding my own house with my own car in the driveway, taken last fall (by the looks of construction in the neighborhood). I guess it's time for all of us to have our Streisand moment and wonder when satellite imagery has gotten too good. [via]