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Storytelling from Space: Tools/Resources

This list of resources is all about acquring and processing aerial imagery. It's generally broken up in three ways: how to go about this in Photoshop/GIMP, using command-line tools, or in GIS software, depending what's most comfortable to you. Often these tools can be used in conjunction with each other.

Acquiring Landsat & MODIS

Web Interface

• USGS Earth Explorer - Browser and data access (create a login)
  http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

• Landsat archive

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development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  database: my_database
  username: root
  password:
  apt:
    - somepackage
    - anotherpackage

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Start querying (also scroll down for more query examples!)

• Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/query
• DBPedia: http://dbpedia.org/snorql
  • Scroll for dbpedia examples: https://wiki.base22.com/display/btg/SPARQL+Query+Examples
• Factforge: http://factforge.net/sparql

Wikipedia stats

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

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See

• Altered Sankey plugin: https://github.com/briantjacobs/d3-plugins/tree/master/sankey
• Blog post http://briantjacobs.com/d3-sankey-schema

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#! /bin/bash

# Convert Landsat 8 GeoTIFF images into RGB pan-sharpened JPEGs.
#
# Requirements:
#              * gdal http://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/gdal/
#              * convert (image-magick)
#
# Reference info:
#                 http://www.mapbox.com/blog/putting-landsat-8-bands-to-work/

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from jsonmerge import merge
import itertools
import os
import sys
import subprocess
import processHorizons
import simplejson as json
import msgpack
import dateutil.parser
from datetime import datetime

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import re
import os
import csv
import json
import sys
import StringIO
import dateutil.parser
import datetime

def main(inputFile):

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Himawari-8 animation tutorial

Here’s how to make animations like this one. It requires intermediate Unix command-line knowledge, to install some tools and to debug if they don’t work. You’ll need these utilities:

• curl (or you can translate to wget)
• convert and montage, part of ImageMagick
• ffmpeg, plus whatever codecs
• parallel, for iteration that’s nicer than shell for loops or xargs
• run everything in zsh for leading 0s in numerical ranges to work

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var cubeSphere = new CubeSphere({
            parent: PARENT, // scene or Object3D
            scale: 1, // in case scaling according to other objects in scene
            radius: 5, // size of sphere
            textureFaces: [
                new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture(04.jpg),
                new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture(03.jpg),
                new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture(05.jpg),
                new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture(06.jpg),
                new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture(02.jpg),

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// Important: You must serve your pages as XHTML for this shim to work,
// otherwise namespaced attributes and elements will get messed up.
Object.defineProperty(SVGElement.prototype, 'innerHTML', {
  get: function() {
    var $child, $node, $temp, _i, _len, _ref;
    $temp = document.createElement('div');
    $node = this.cloneNode(true);
    _ref = $node.children;
    for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
      $child = _ref[_i];