Simple blue marble world wms service with a latlong and mercator layer.
Blue marble wms.
Nasa s terra satellite collected these images.
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Webmap opens a new web map in a browser centering the map at the latitude longitude point 0 0 by default webmap sets the base layer to world street map at the maximum spatial extent available.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere.
Black marble uses imagery from nasa s suomi satellite.
Next generation images show earth in true color.
In 2002 nasa released an updated version suitable for gis created by a mosaic of satellite images with the clouds removed.
And i must say this is quite possibly the coolest wms i ve seen.
The classic blue marblephoto of earth was taken by the crew of apollo 17 on their way to the moon in 1972.
Last wednesday matthew dawson paver a business planning performance analyst at skype asked on tableau s linkedin group.
Mel stephenson pointed him to the nasa earth observations wms.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
Blue marble a seamless image mosaic of the earth wms visualizations by eric sokolowsky released on february 16 2004 this spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
After the web map opens you can select a different base layer using the layer manager available on the right side of the web map.
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There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004.
The black marble data provide resolution up to 500m giving a global perspective at night.
Next generation offers a year s worth of.
How can you connect tableau to nasa s blue marble wms servers.
Therefore nasa introduced black marble in 2012 which complements its blue marble release of data that has become very popular with scientists and the public.
