Looks like a jpeg to me
What is the name of this type of image
Submitted 7 months ago by solaryth@discuss.tchncs.de to [deleted]
https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/c70ced33-f155-4687-831f-07bcf47221f2.jpeg
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DennysMoshPit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 7 months ago
danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 7 months ago
I think it needs more jpeg
nadiaraven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This looks like a nasa image in their series “earth at night”. Looks like they do this every few years; they did one in 2012 and in 2016. Every once in a while I get a hankering to check it out, and for a while I could never remember what they were called.
Here’s the USA specific one from 2016: www.usgs.gov/…/photograph-united-states-night
Here’s the global version: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/…/page3.php
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I named it Gerald.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
The community is called No Stupid Questions but apparently it does have stupid answers.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maybe not, but it apparently helped mildly amuse significantly more folks than it pissed off so I’m happy with it.
ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To me it looks more like a Bertha.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Baaabbbaaaa yeettuuuu yeettuuuu leeeyyaaaiiie… 🎶
fubo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My understanding is that’s literally what a big chunk of North America looks like at night, when viewed from space with a sufficiently long camera exposure.
TauZero@mander.xyz 7 months ago
The picture is clearly at the very least a composite, because there are zero clouds anywhere. I was skeptical whether it can be called a “photo”. Given how clear the unlit terrain is, even in the ocean around the Bahamas for example, I thought it must have been a visualization, or a photo of daytime terrain shaded blue and overlaid with a map of nighttime lights. But I found the actual source:
…nasa.gov/…/night-lights-2012-map
…nasa.gov/…/dnb_land_ocean_ice.2012.13500x13500.B…
It really is a (composite) photo taken by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, whose cameras are so sensitive they can see reflected moonlight and “the nocturnal glow produced by Earth’s atmosphere”, albeit partially in the infrared.This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands.
The nighttime view of Earth was made possible by the “day-night band” of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite. VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as gas flares, auroras, wildfires, city lights, and reflected moonlight.
I’m unsure though what “assembled from data” means exactly. At the very least the colors are artificial, shifted from the infrared-to-green range of the camera into human visual range. This page describes some more how the sensor functions, along with raw photos:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/IntotheBlackSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It kinda shows the dominance humans have over the planet. We affect nearly every part of it. Nearly everything is light up by our lights.
To the point where it’s visible from space. From space, it’s as if we have altered all of the night’s topography.
solaryth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Thanks
AA5B@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Looks like a lan I g map for high speed rail to me
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 months ago
idk, a light map? you trying to Google it? or just for the trivia knowledge?
bhamlin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What color is this dress?
Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 months ago
Black and gold
And009@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Don’t get me started, it white and…!
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
satellite map.
solaryth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
!solved
EsteemedRectangle@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Unsolved?
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Found the progrmmer.
relatablesoup@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
If you’re talking data viz, maybe a dichromatic chloropleth geo chart or a hot spot/density map?
discodoubloon@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yeah heat map seems to be the most generic term for it.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Crazy how sparsely populated the US is west of Dallas, TX.
Glifted@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s mostly desert and mountains
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
A picture?
LaChaleurDeLaNuit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes!! finally, thank you
cylarc@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Where’s Waldo?
AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
JPEG
KalabiYau@lemmy.world 7 months ago
and i like JPEGS
jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
The east / west division in the cost of light bulbs.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 7 months ago
Color
Wrongleverkrunk@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Picture
Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Geoplot?
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not sure what you’re looking for.
This is a composite satellite image of nighttime light sources.
I can’t think of anything unifying other than “satellite image”.
solaryth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Thanks