I've rendered out two map layers with pre-typhoon Landsat 8 imagery. This is very low resolution (15 m) but may help fill in major highways and rivers for areas that still lack better coverage. They include clouds because I found that splicing them together can introduce seam artifacts that could be mistaken for roads.
The layer templates are:
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https://d.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/char.Leyte1/{z}/{x}/{y}.png – Leyte area (browsable view)
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https://d.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/char.Leyte2/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (browsable view)
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https://d.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/char.Yolanda3/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (Panay/Masbate area; relatively clear Masbate – browsable view)
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https://d.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/char.Yolanda4/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (Panay/Masbate area – browsable view)
(Please forgive inconsistent naming.)
This is public domain data on a staff account. Distribute at will.
The layers have highly exaggerated color and contrast. Muddy water and bare soil including roads will generally appear red-brown to purplish. I experimented with false color, but it doesn’t offer much extra clarity in this case and can be confusing for people unused to it (e.g., roads can look blue and be interpreted as rivers).
If this is useful, I’ll take requests for neighboring areas etc. and render them as time permits. For anyone replicating, I used basically this process but with these convert
arguments for the color mix and pansharpening:
convert -compose Colorize band-8-projected.tif rgb-upsampled.tif -channel G -gamma 0.95 -channel R -gamma 1.05 -channel RGB -sigmoidal-contrast 80x16% -composite c.tif
(Results may vary depending on ImageMagick version. Yes, they change stuff like this in point releases.)
To get in touch: @vruba, charlie@mapbox.com, celoyd@gmail.com.