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File:Africa satellite plane.jpg

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English: A composed satellite photograph of Africa.
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Source The image is from ("Blue Marble: Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography "). I took the two 21600x21600 images, land_shallow_topo_west.tif and land_shallow_topo_east.tif, and composed them. I cropped the resulting image at 8460x8900+19400+6200.

Regarding the source data of the original, NASA-Blue Marble file, it is being exaplained that it

  • used a set of satellite-based observations to yield an image with 1 km2 (0.386 square mile) resolution
  • most information comes from NASA’s MODIS instrument (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
  • data were collected from June through September 2001
  • ocean data has two sources: (i) shallow water true color data, and (ii) global ocean colour/chlorophyll data
  • elevation data stem from the GTOPO 30 dataset by the U.S. Geological Survey’s EROS Data Centre
Author NASA
Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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