new sharp satellite map of earth
Bimonthly global composites for May to June 2005 and March to April 2006, based on data collected by the 300m MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission, are now available for download at ESA’s GlobCover website. These are the sharpest land cover data to date and more bimonthly data will be accessible in June.
The data are divided into mosaics and delivered via BT, quite an innovation among the various governmental agencies. Every time I need to use Seamless, I want to scream at its clunky interface. At GlobCover, the interface for selecting target area for download is very user-friendly, and you can further fine-tune the selection through BT client. While this is really handy, the download is quite slow right now perhaps because words haven’t got out far enough.
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