2004 Global Vegetation from Blue Marble Next Generation
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. The image here shows a global view of the data. This data set is derived from imagery taken in 2004 by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite.
This still image shows a global view of landcover in June 2004.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
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.
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Visualizer
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Cindy Starr
(Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Cindy Starr
(Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)
- David Herring (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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Release date
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.