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DMSP / OLS


Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System

Multimedia Items Available Relating to DMSP / OLS
Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface.   3363   The Lights of Earth: Full Spin in High Resolution
The short version of the Cryosphere Tour, with narration and music.   3355   A Short Tour of the Cryosphere
VIDEO WITH MUSIC AND CAPTIONS   3181   A Tour of the Cryosphere
Earth lights at night for the entire earth.   2916   Earth At Night (WMS)
A seamless zoom from the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium on the ground to space, ending with a spin of the Earth showing city lights in the darkness behind a terminator, using data from Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM+, and IKONOS   2378   Great Zoom out of Salt Lake City, UT: Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium (with Spin and Night Lights)
A seamless zoom, starting with a spin of the Earth showing city lights in the darkness behind a terminator, then moving from space to the ground, using data from Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM+, and IKONOS, and ending at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake City, UT.   2377   Great Zoom into Salt Lake City, UT: Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium (with Spin and Night Lights)
Lights at night over North America as seen from space.   1600   Supporting Media for Urban Dynamics
Our Solar System   1402   Earth Today 1998
Earth Today Logo   1401   Earth Today 1998 Introduction
Pan across the mall in Washington, DC using 1 meter resolution IKONOS data, followed by a zoom out to space using 30 meter resolution data from Landsat 7 and 250 meter and 8 kilometer resolution Terra MODIS data. A final rotation of the Earth shows data of stable light sources from DMSP data.   1324   DC Pan and Zoomout Animation
A rotating globe showing the visible light sources on the Earths surface as measured by the DMSP satellites during the 1980s. White dots represent city lights, red dots represent forest fires, and yellow dots represent oil well fires.   1320   HoloGlobe: Earth at Night
An image showing Earths light sources on a rotating globe, where white represents stable urban lights and fire data is shown in red and yellow.   556   Earth at Night
Countdown Animation   328   Earth Today 1998 Countdown
This image represents a one month sample (October 1983) of composite images from cloud cover data collected from a suite of U.S., European, and Japanese geostationary satellites and U.S. polar orbiting meteorological satellites.   155   The HoloGlobe Project (Version 3)
Narrated Hologlobe (version 2)   116   The HoloGlobe Project (Version 2)
Hologlobe (version 1)   96   The HoloGlobe Project (Version 1)

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