It's late on a Thursday evening and it's been a busy day - lots going on with work today, lots going on with Zack, had dinner with a friend of mine and Lisa stopped by after an evening out with some of her friends. So I am quite surprised by myself in the fact that I am writing a blog post at 10:55PM!
The post is going to be short and sweet. I was reading the headlines on NBCNews.Com and I came across this article that I thought was really amazing and I wanted to share with my readers. The article, which you can find at this link http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/09/18150228-time-lapse-map-chronicles-decades-of-global-change-as-seen-from-space?lite, is about a new website launched by Google and the people who operate the Landsat satellites.
A brief background on Landsat is provided by the following selection, taken from Wikipedia. "The Landsat program is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. On July 23, 1972 the Earth Resources Technology Satellite was launched. This was eventually renamed to Landsat.[1] The most recent, Landsat Data Continuity Mission, was launched on February 11, 2013. The instruments on the Landsat satellites have acquired millions of images. The images, archived in the United States and at Landsat receiving stations around the world, are a unique resource for global change research and applications in agriculture, cartography, geology, forestry, regional planning, surveillance and education. Landsat 7 data has eight spectral bands with spatial resolutions ranging from 15 to 60 meters; the temporal resolution is 16 days."
This website called "TimeLapse" presents time lapse imagines of major changes that have occurred on the earth's surface in the last 40 years as captured by Landsat satellite imagery. Some of these time lapse movies are amazing. One of the more interesting ones that I watched was the development of the City of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In the first images seen, Dubai is nothing more than a sandy desert. Over time you can see the increasing presence of buildings road, trains and other man-made structures. Much more significant change can be seen in pictures dating from the early 2000's. In those images the development of the artificial made island chains called the Palm Jumeirah, the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira can be seen. To me this one of the most remarkable changes that can be seen in entire world - the development of entire chains of islands.
Other images that were developed in time lapse imagery include; the deforestation of the Amazon River Basin, the growth of major cities like Las Vegas and Shanghai, environment and way of life destruction with the development of Alberta's oil sand and deep rock coal mining occurring in Wyoming.
Spending some time looking at this website in any way might knock you right out of your socks due the shear magnitude of the changes that are occurring in the world today.
The bottom line is that many people of a right viewpoint, will view this website as just dragging the Amercian public deeper into the hand of the left. Seeing some of these images will be certain to drive the against the idea of more development. How much development is constantly needed if we can already see and record these changes from space.
Here's the website for the Maps in TimeLaspe format.
http://world.time.com/timelapse/
Well - I really better get to bed. I decided to write this on a whim after I had readed it on MSCBC.Com. My body is still trying to catch up from having only a few days this week in which I got a proper sleep! Don't want my lack of sleep to linger on into the weekend as that would be not fru at all!
Please excuse the type and spelling errors in this post, as they are occurring because I definitely lacking sleep to.
Thanks and peace tol
The post is going to be short and sweet. I was reading the headlines on NBCNews.Com and I came across this article that I thought was really amazing and I wanted to share with my readers. The article, which you can find at this link http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/09/18150228-time-lapse-map-chronicles-decades-of-global-change-as-seen-from-space?lite, is about a new website launched by Google and the people who operate the Landsat satellites.
A brief background on Landsat is provided by the following selection, taken from Wikipedia. "The Landsat program is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. On July 23, 1972 the Earth Resources Technology Satellite was launched. This was eventually renamed to Landsat.[1] The most recent, Landsat Data Continuity Mission, was launched on February 11, 2013. The instruments on the Landsat satellites have acquired millions of images. The images, archived in the United States and at Landsat receiving stations around the world, are a unique resource for global change research and applications in agriculture, cartography, geology, forestry, regional planning, surveillance and education. Landsat 7 data has eight spectral bands with spatial resolutions ranging from 15 to 60 meters; the temporal resolution is 16 days."
This website called "TimeLapse" presents time lapse imagines of major changes that have occurred on the earth's surface in the last 40 years as captured by Landsat satellite imagery. Some of these time lapse movies are amazing. One of the more interesting ones that I watched was the development of the City of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In the first images seen, Dubai is nothing more than a sandy desert. Over time you can see the increasing presence of buildings road, trains and other man-made structures. Much more significant change can be seen in pictures dating from the early 2000's. In those images the development of the artificial made island chains called the Palm Jumeirah, the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira can be seen. To me this one of the most remarkable changes that can be seen in entire world - the development of entire chains of islands.
Other images that were developed in time lapse imagery include; the deforestation of the Amazon River Basin, the growth of major cities like Las Vegas and Shanghai, environment and way of life destruction with the development of Alberta's oil sand and deep rock coal mining occurring in Wyoming.
Spending some time looking at this website in any way might knock you right out of your socks due the shear magnitude of the changes that are occurring in the world today.
The bottom line is that many people of a right viewpoint, will view this website as just dragging the Amercian public deeper into the hand of the left. Seeing some of these images will be certain to drive the against the idea of more development. How much development is constantly needed if we can already see and record these changes from space.
Here's the website for the Maps in TimeLaspe format.
http://world.time.com/timelapse/
Well - I really better get to bed. I decided to write this on a whim after I had readed it on MSCBC.Com. My body is still trying to catch up from having only a few days this week in which I got a proper sleep! Don't want my lack of sleep to linger on into the weekend as that would be not fru at all!
Please excuse the type and spelling errors in this post, as they are occurring because I definitely lacking sleep to.
Thanks and peace tol
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