Earth from Space: Chicago, USA "Postcard style"In this composite image you can see
Chicago and surroundings, USA, imaged by the
Operational Land Imager (
OLI) aboard
Landsat 8. The images were taken
September 23rd, 2014 at 4:35pm GMT.
A scenic view of
Chicago (
https://goo.gl/nX3N7p),
Illinois, and surroundings. On the right side of the image you can see
Lake Michigan (
https://goo.gl/qgK0AY). The image has been edited into a very colorful
"Postcard style" view of the area.
A larger version (72 megapixels) of the image with a scale of 15 meters/pixel can be found here:
https://flic.kr/p/J94QHoTake a look here for a nighttime view of Chicago from aboard the International Space Station:
https://plus.google.com/+PierreMarkuse/posts/bRSaaNS1bCrThe area on Google maps:
https://goo.gl/4iIntCTechnical DataFor those interested, here the
technical data for this image. The image is a pansharpened OLI Band 4-3-2 (
natural color) image. The resulting
colors are near natural but have been oversaturated and contrast is slightly enhanced for land masses and strongly for water. Image scale is
75 meters/pixel.
More images of Earth from Space:
https://plus.google.com/+PierreMarkuse/posts/WWLRYfyL9LQhttps://plus.google.com/+PierreMarkuse/posts/5JKHy5s29eBhttps://plus.google.com/+PierreMarkuse/posts/ZTBuGxcdG8yMore on Landsat 8:
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?page_id=407https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_8What is pan sharpening?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansharpened_imageImage credit: Landsat 8 data courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey / Processed by
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