{"id":943,"date":"2013-07-07T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mesas\/?p=943"},"modified":"2013-07-05T22:38:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T03:38:48","slug":"earth-observations-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/brian-magi\/2013\/07\/07\/earth-observations-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth observations gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to really like photography.  A big chunk of my senior year in high school and freshman year in college were spent in a dark room experimenting with developing processes and photograph creation.  Film cameras are a thing of the past essentially (although I still have my Nikon and old photo gear that was woefully incompatible with the new Digital SLR bodies), but imagery is not.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/\" target=\"_blank\">Data<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">visualization<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">huge<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/persquaremile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">force<\/a> on the web, and imagery is constantly thrown our way from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisseduc.ch\/glaciers\/\" target=\"_blank\">traditional<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/data\/glacier_photo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">camera<\/a> and from <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">cameras<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/earthdata.nasa.gov\/labs\/worldview\/\" target=\"_blank\">space<\/a>.  The exploratory power of all this information is staggering (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mesas\/2013\/06\/28\/beijing-air-quality-and-agricultural-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\">one example here<\/a>).  <strong>All that being said, I think it&#8217;s important to step back and just view some of the imagery emerging from these sources.<\/strong>  I don&#8217;t have webpage links for these, and I&#8217;ve enhanced contrast and color in some cases but take a look.  <strong>Which evokes the most visceral sense that you are connected to a global community?  Data, nature, both?<\/strong><br \/>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br \/>\nThe images are all cropped to an aspect ratio of 16:9 or HDTV.  Let me know if you want more information about the photos\/images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to really like photography. 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