Maps Of The Week
The Landsat programme has been capturing satellite imagery of the public since the early on 1970's. This agency that nosotros cause got access to over twoscore years of satellite imagery, which is a wonderful resources for documenting changes to our planet.
Landsat Lens allows yous to explore how the public has changed yesteryear allowing yous to compare Lansat satellite imagery from half-dozen dissimilar years. The map allows yous to search for whatsoever place on public as well as and thus overlay satellite imagery of your selected place from 1975, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010 & 2015.
For example the screenshot higher upward shows a map of the Aral Sea alongside 4 dissimilar satellite images from 4 dissimilar decades. Being able to straight compare satellite images from dissimilar decades inwards this way actually helps to highlight the scale of how apace the Aral Sea is disappearing.
Other locations only about the public that cause got seen drastic changes over the final few decades tin live on viewed using the quick links inwards the map sidebar.
The School of Geosciences at Sydney University has released the outset interactive map of seafloor geology. Seafloor Lithology allows yous to explore seafloor lithologies based on virtually 14,500 samples taken from the world's seas as well as oceans.
Seafloor Lithology includes iii dissimilar map views: an interactive s map, an oblique map projection (which allows yous to persuasion seafloor elevation) as well as a 3d Cesium globe view. The 3d globe persuasion besides allows yous to explore the topography of the seafloor inwards 3d (use ctrl & the left mouse push clit to rotate the photographic goggle box camera persuasion only about a point).
The map cardinal explains the colors used for the seafloor's dissimilar geologies. The map cardinal is a trivial pocket-size but if yous click on the cardinal it volition opened upward inwards a legible size inwards a course window.
Cities at Night is an endeavor to collate as well as portion nighttime fourth dimension images of the public captured yesteryear astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 major role of Cities at Night is a citizen scientific discipline projection inwards which anyone tin aid position the exact locations depicted inwards photographs yesteryear ISS astronauts. By contributing to the projection yous tin aid to construct a amend map of worldwide calorie-free pollution.
You tin persuasion some of the already geo-located photos of the public at nighttime on the Gallery of Interactive Maps. The gallery includes a let out of maps of major cities inwards which ISS night-time photos cause got been overlaid on overstep of a map of the cities. For example inwards the screenshot higher upward yous tin run across the huge sum of calorie-free pollution inwards the metropolis of London.
