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Seasonal Landcover Change over the Alps

The Blue Marble Next Generation data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's land cover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This visualization of the data set shows seasonal variations such as snowfall, spring greening and droughts in a seamless fashion, thereby heightening awareness of changes in the Earth's climate. Here we focus on the seasonal land cover changes over the European Alps. This data set is derived from imagery taken in 2004 by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite.

This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions.    This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions.
Duration: 40.0 seconds
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  640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   21 MB
  720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   34 MB
  720x486 (29.97 fps) Frames (Landcover)
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 This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions.  This version has a date bar indicating the month being shown.    This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions. This version has a date bar indicating the month being shown.
Duration: 40.0 seconds
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  320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   5 MB
  640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   21 MB
  720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   34 MB
  320x240     JPEG         16 KB
  160x80       PNG           22 KB
  80x40         PNG           6 KB
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This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions.  This version is in HD widescreen format.    This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions. This version is in HD widescreen format.
Duration: 42.0 seconds
Available formats:
  640x360 (59.94 fps) MPEG-1   22 MB
  1280x720 (59.94 fps) Frames (Landcover)
  1280x720 (59.94 fps) Frames (LandcoverWdate)
  320x180     PNG           89 KB
  1280x720 (59.94 fps) Frames (DateOverlay)
  1280x720 (60 fps) MPEG-2   92 MB
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This still image shows landcover over Europe in January 2004.    This still image shows landcover over Europe in January 2004.

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Animation Number:3270
Animators:Cindy Starr (SVS) (Lead)
 Jeff de La Beaujardiere (SVS)
Completed:2005-10-07
Scientists:Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)
 David Herring (NASA/GSFC)
Instrument:Terra/MODIS
Data set:Blue Marble Next Generation Seasonal Landcover
Data Collected:1/1/2004 - 12/31/2004
Series:Blue Marble Next Generation
Goddard TV Tape:G2007-002HD -- NASA’s HD Blue Marble Resource Tape
Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Land Surface >> Land Use/Land Cover >> Land Cover
 
 
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