Same same, but different

Interesting tool which enables to interact with different projections and see the differences in area/shape/distance.

Terrapattern is a fun prototype that lets you search satellite imagery simply by clicking on a map. For example, you can click on a tennis court, and through machine learning, the application looks for similar areas.

Sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester downloaded Landsat data using Earth Explorer and strung together images of the Ucayali River to see the changes over thirty years.

Thanks to the Landsat program and Google Earth Engine, it is possible now to explore how the surface of the Earth has been changing through the last thirty years or so. Besides the obvious issues of interest, like changes in vegetation, the spread of cities, and the melting of glaciers, it is also possible to look at how rivers change their courses through time.

Excellence is hard to keep quite.

Interessante Präsentation zum Thema Motivation, Ziele, Ergebnisse und Prozesse.

iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator. iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, site explorer, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more.

Hmmm… quite worrying… but doesn’t come as a surprise… (PDF with end dates here)

Great tool to see the differences between different projections, with the differences visible for the latitudes too.

Get the right projection for a chosen extent, be it equal-area, conformal or equidistant.

Wow, pretty impressive panoramic views, with multiple functions, like time lapse, archive, panning, …

Interesting, simple display of migration trends, in total numbers and as percentage of the population. NYT

Very interesting to see how countries “loose” size while dragging them over the earth. Due to the usual global projection, Greenland for example looks really huge, but, when compared correctly in size with African countries around the equator, it looks rather shrinked….

Looking for some tool to collaborate together on a text-document? PiratePad could do it…

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Schöne Grafik mit kleinen Detail-Ansichten der National Geographic.