https://robertsimmon.com/blog-4-1 daily 0.75 2025-07-08 https://robertsimmon.com/blog-4-1/blog-post-title-four-9adzj monthly 0.5 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/dd0e0230-77eb-486a-97cf-7912c825a52a/fordo_ventilation.png Blog 4 - New Stories from Space - Make it stand out Triptych of high-resolution images from Maxar showing the impact points of Massive Ordnance Penetrators on the Fordo Uranium Enrichment Plant. The New York Times used a times series of satellite data to show how the strikes hit ventilation shafts and other weak points in the underground facility. Screenshot from Satellite Images Show U.S. May Have Targeted Ventilation Shafts at Fordo. https://robertsimmon.com/blog-4-1/blog-post-title-three-r46e4 monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://robertsimmon.com/blog-4-1/blog-post-title-two-xc4cj monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://robertsimmon.com/blog-4-1/blog-post-title-one-5bztc monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://robertsimmon.com/home daily 1.0 2024-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/c89434a8-0e21-4027-975c-6e784a6c23a8/earth_lights_lrg.jpg Home Earth’s City Lights, 2000. Map of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) night lights data combined with tinted land cover data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/36f22afc-5f29-489b-b4d3-6ff856f1b0c4/globe_west_2048.jpeg Home Blue Marble, 2002. Visualization of the first-ever true color map of Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/59a8bc39-48a5-4aac-a276-a7b7e8065816/nyt_front_page_2019.09.16.png Home Aftermath of a drone attack on Saudi oil facilities, published on the front page of the New York Times on September 16, 2019. True color PlanetScope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/2ad8e0d7-6583-4841-8d72-8e43de64192c/fitzroy_s3_20180319T151112Z_oblique_2050.jpg Home Oblique, high-resolution of Mount Fitz Roy collected on March 18, 2018. Image ©2018 Planet Labs, Inc. cc-by-sa 4.0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/19e6b589-d75e-4151-8fbe-260dc66eb1fc/minimum_temperature_contours_final.png Home Color coded map with contours, showing forecast minimum temperatures for the contiguous United States for January 21, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/6ab801a8-4710-436b-8ea0-c0feb3b781b6/ngm_2015_11.jpg Home Front cover of National Geographic, November 2015. Single day of true-color VIIRS data rendered with a physical model of the atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/deec4fe9-1b13-47a9-b1ed-e440883ba66a/seasons_msg_2010-2011.jpg Home Seeing Equinoxes and Solstices from Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/7d24252d-df4a-481d-870b-49c3f51bb38a/tarim_basin_china_ast_20050224.png Home Near infrared false color & decorrelation stretch images of Tarim Basin, China. ASTER February 24, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/96117e5a-c375-4237-a203-0dc5c83e1a32/ferrari_world_s110_20181012T093417Z_rgb.jpg Home Ferrari World & Yas Marina Circuit. Planet SkySat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/6ec6ab12-8e51-4c04-9fbd-8bc7d773c29e/ISS020-E-09048_lrg.jpg Home Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/41612092-fd94-46be-9020-beec284d956d/antarctica_lakes_map_lrg_portfolio.png Home Shaded relief map of topography and subglacial lakes, Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/5803f5da-bb38-44ff-bdb8-3d451eb7ef37/tahoe_rgb_sng_ndvi_wqi.png Home True color, false color, and NDVI + Water Quality Index maps of Lake Tahoe & the Sierra Nevada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/9b8de900-544a-4cfd-a24b-fc6e55a42c2f/mount_st_helens_USGS_5m_dem__shaded_contours_100px_square.jpg Home Topographic map of Mount St. Helens, made to demonstrate how to create shaded relief in GDAL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/373e4a48-f987-48f7-b62f-ae493b50730e/iceland_volcano_20210326.jpeg Home Eruption at Fagradalsfjall, March 26, 2021, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Planet SkySat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/91568d13-8506-493c-9fc2-9288ae798745/mining_para_brazil_skysat_20210608.jpeg Home Mining Along the Igarapé Pau-branco; Pará, Brazil. Planet Skysat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/b5203c6b-03f9-419b-8fae-a51b92ca854f/biosphere_combined_east_west_1080px_slide.png Home Map of the global biosphere in an oblique stereographic projection. VIIRS NDVI +ocean color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/41e651f5-dd8e-4af9-8b13-e39cd3cbfaa3/arches_map_planetscope_20210419_crop.jpg Home PlanetScope map of Arches National Park, created for the 2021 Avenza User Converence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/43e85a7b-1d0f-4b7c-9d86-346db8ec8ae1/juneau_multi_res_mist_combined_02.jpg Home 3D perspective view of Juneau, Alaska, created in Blender with multi-resolution digital elevation models and true-color imagery. https://robertsimmon.com/about daily 0.75 2024-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/36f22afc-5f29-489b-b4d3-6ff856f1b0c4/globe_west_2048.jpeg https://robertsimmon.com/landscapes daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/4ff04629-e7da-444c-9c14-a1b3c0b6bea3/dotson_ice_rise_20211221_rot.jpg Imagery High-resolution view of the Dotson Ice Shelf from SkySat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/1314d38a-08ac-4988-b9cc-74296932d568/ferrari_world_s110_20181012T093417Z_rgb.jpg Imagery Ferrari World and the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/ae3812ff-d4a0-4948-93c8-910492df54c9/city_lights_asia_night_8k.jpg Imagery City Lights of Asia and Australia, VIIRS Day Night Band https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/aff3f3ac-9354-4fc8-b140-b668ac8d0f77/faulting_oli_2013211_lrg.jpg Imagery Faults in Xinjiang, China. Landsat 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/d6ae0047-59ff-4e1a-b1c6-fd2fe2f5ad9b/paris_s01_20160924T104941Z_oblique_1920.jpg Imagery Oblique view of Paris, France from SkySat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/df4efbcf-ad60-4b97-9aa0-8e6f583ec1fa/plateau_of_chasms_algeria_20221111.jpeg Imagery Plateau of Chasms, November 11, 2022, Tassili N'ajjer National Park, Algeria. PlanetScope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/0450f798-170e-418c-9d7d-3703a36bd3d0/himalaya_20230121_1026_highly_oblique_corrected_1080px_portrait_labeled.jpg Imagery Oblique view of the Himalaya from PlanetScope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/6ec6ab12-8e51-4c04-9fbd-8bc7d773c29e/ISS020-E-09048_lrg.jpg Imagery Frame from an animation of erupting Sarychev Volcano composited from photographs taken from the International Space Station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/94ea1799-d77d-446b-a8d9-090f8e8edc17/elpaso_oli_2013141_lrg.jpg Imagery A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez — every Landsat 4, 5, 7, and 8 image of El Paso from 1982 – 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/036614c5-5b01-4b16-b45d-4c177c61d530/athabasca_river_delta_planetscope_20220211.jpeg Imagery Athabasca River Delta, February 11, 2022, Saskatchewan, Canada. PlanetScope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/9514aed0-fb81-4c82-9f62-1b3732ba1d40/burrup_australia_s118_20201121T085400Z_rgb_2560.jpg Imagery Burrup, Australia. November 21, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/04ab03bc-d906-4bbd-9609-18119bb3cb3f/longswath170045_oli_2013109_crop.jpg Imagery Come Fly with Me — Landsat 8’s view from Russia to South Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/e5100e89-d366-42be-8d90-2bf1b5f9e92f/alaska_rgb.jpg Imagery True color views can be limited. This red, green, and blue Landsat 8 image of Alaska shows green and brown boreal vegetation, silt-filled rivers, and spreading smoke from a wildfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/05735479-28a8-43cd-966d-e615b15a9cd8/alaska_sng.jpg Imagery The same area, shown with shortwave infrared, near infrared, and green light reveal subtleties in the vegetation, and clearly differentiates land from water. The infrared light even penetrates smoke, showing the advancing flames beneath. https://robertsimmon.com/maps daily 0.75 2024-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/b91ffdac-0565-4b0e-8faa-645539d54374/south_up_political_map_09.03_UKRAINE.png Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/a867b19b-25a1-459f-870b-a20f9b9d833e/california_gold_country_3000px.jpg Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/19e6b589-d75e-4151-8fbe-260dc66eb1fc/minimum_temperature_contours_final.png Maps Weather map of the United States featuring a perceptual palette and contours to simultaneously show temperature extremes and small changes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/a7e15afe-d70b-41c3-ae0f-36a0d05c922f/balloon_track_map_basemap_eqdc_05_2560px_logo.png Maps Tracking the Chinese Surveillance Balloon from Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/392e4323-2a0a-417b-ba3e-7f27cb9ed059/dead_zones_lrg.jpg Maps Aquatic Dead Zones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/7e28ae9f-24b9-45e8-8a68-78071a68b873/bangui_floodrisk_smooth_city_crop_1920.jpg Maps Flood Risk & Building Footprints, Bangui, Central African Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/b5ddaa13-e35c-42f0-8fe1-d02e69802774/ceres_toa_net_clim_12_months_clean.png Maps Maps of monthly long-term climatology net flux data from CERES. In general, the Earth accumulates heat energy near the equator (red), and loses heat near the poles (blue). The latitudes receiving the most energy shift as the sun moves north and south with the seasons. The effect of thick clouds, which reflect solar energy, can be seen near the equator and during the summer off the west coasts of North America, South America, and Africa. Maps by Robert simmon using data from the CERES Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/82117c96-d2fb-4d4c-a4f0-593a6861d074/whrc_carbon_us_lrg.png Maps NASA Creates Insanely High-Res Map Of America’s Trees, And Offers A Lesson In Information Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/9b8de900-544a-4cfd-a24b-fc6e55a42c2f/mount_st_helens_USGS_5m_dem__shaded_contours_100px_square.jpg Maps Shaded Relief Map of Mount St. Helens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/c0f125d5-38d7-4cd8-b4a3-3d8a95dd17ba/mount_st_helens_before_and_after_felt.jpg Maps I created this pair of maps for Felt to show the software’s cartographic capabilities and seamless web mapping. I combined pre- and post-eruption digital elevation models from the USGS with data from the National Map. Data processing in GDAL and QGIS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/41612092-fd94-46be-9020-beec284d956d/antarctica_lakes_map_lrg_portfolio.png Maps Subglacial Lakes, Antarctica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/6ce7cfec-dc9e-468e-9dd3-89509d0d2314/npp.modis.201008.3600x1800.hammer.png Maps A Global Garden: Plants Storing Carbon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/d8b9d25c-2c35-4924-9c1d-5111abd07ae9/smos_sea_ice_thickness_max_2011_2024.png Maps Maps of maximum sea ice thickness for 2011 and 2024, created with the help of GDAL. Based on CryoSat-SMOS Merged Sea Ice Thickness data from the Alfred Wegener Institute and ESA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/41e651f5-dd8e-4af9-8b13-e39cd3cbfaa3/arches_map_planetscope_20210419_crop.jpg Maps Map of Arches National Park made with PlanetScope data and featured at the 2021 Avenza users conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b18a2a6f995e2a6ab717e6/bfdc3b83-f0c9-4c09-9a35-35c712b14737/aerosol_fine_fraction_depth_201008_hammer.png Maps The global distribution of aerosols and the proportion of those aerosols that are large or small. Intense colors indicate a thick layer of aerosols. Yellow areas are predominantly coarse particles, like dust, and red areas are mainly fine aerosols, like smoke or pollution. Gray indicates areas with no data. https://robertsimmon.com/writing daily 0.75 2024-10-24