Previous Animation Next Animation Seasonal Landcover Change over the Alps 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. Duration: 40.0 seconds Available formats:   320x240     JPEG         15 KB   80x40         PNG           6 KB   160x80       PNG           22 KB   320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   5 MB   640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   21 MB   720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   34 MB   720x486 (29.97 fps) Frames (Landcover)   320x240 (30 fps) X-FLV       1 MB How to play our movies    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. Duration: 40.0 seconds Available formats:   320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   5 MB   640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   21 MB   720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   34 MB   320x240     JPEG         16 KB   160x80       PNG           22 KB   80x40         PNG           6 KB   720x486 (29.97 fps) Frames (DateOverlay)   720x486 (29.97 fps) Frames (LandcoverWdate)   320x240 (30 fps) X-FLV       1 MB How to play our movies    This animation zooms into Northern Italy and shows seasonal landcover over the Alps and surrounding regions. This version is in HD widescreen format. Duration: 42.0 seconds Available formats:   640x360 (59.94 fps) MPEG-1   22 MB   1280x720 (59.94 fps) Frames (Landcover)   1280x720 (59.94 fps) Frames (LandcoverWdate)   320x180     PNG           89 KB   1280x720 (59.94 fps) Frames (DateOverlay)   1280x720 (60 fps) MPEG-2   92 MB   320x180 (59.94 fps) MPEG-1   5 GB How to play our movies    This still image shows landcover over Europe in January 2004. Available formats:   320 x 240         JPEG     20 KB   80 x 40             PNG         6 KB   160 x 80           PNG       23 KB   2560 x 1920     TIFF 8 MB Animation Number: 3270 Completed: 2005-10-07 Animators: Cindy Starr (GST) (Lead)   Jeff De La Beaujardiere (NASA) Scientists: Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)   David Herring (NASA/GSFC) Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: Terra/MODIS   Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation Data Collected: 1/1/2004 - 12/31/2004 Series: Blue Marble Next Generation Goddard TV Tape: G2007-002HD -- NASA's HD Blue Marble Resource Tape Keywords: SVS >> HDTV GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Land Surface >> Land Use/Land Cover >> Land Cover     Please give credit for this item to: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Back to Top

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