Seasonal Landcover Change over the Alps

  • Released Tuesday, October 11, 2005
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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. 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 is in HD widescreen format.

This still image shows landcover over Europe in January 2004.

This still image shows landcover over Europe in January 2004.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

This page was originally published on Tuesday, October 11, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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