| Title: "ESRI: World with Clouds" (2004) Description: World with Clouds represents a true color view of the Earth with cloud cover produced by mosaicking hundreds of individual 2001 NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images. These satellites orbit the Earth at an altitude of 700 km (455 miles). The image has a cell size of 1 kilometer (.386 sq. mi.) at the equator. The image was enhanced with shaded relief imagery, derived from the USGS GTOPO30 digital elevation data. The cloud image is a composite of two days of imagery collected in visible light wavelengths and a third day of thermal infra-red imagery over the poles. ESRI georeferenced these data to a real world coordinate system. World with Clouds provides an informational and educational view of our planet at day. | ||||
| Keywords and Themes: Atmosphere, Base Maps, Climatology, Clouds, Earth Cover, Imagery, Map Scan Images, Meteorology, | ||||
| Filename Prefix: earth_clouds_5km.bil | ||||
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| Mapped Drive Folder: /esri2004/images/world/images | ||||
| Total size of data files: 96 MB | ||||
| Data Type: ESRI BIL | ||||
| Feature Type: raster digital data | ||||
| Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984 | ||||
| Datum: D_WGS_1984 | Map Units: Decimal degrees | |||
Spatial Extent: World | ||||
| Source Scale: 1:18,500,000 | ||||
Created by: NASA - Visible Earth | ||||
| Released by: ESRI; ESRI International Distributors | ||||
| Content Date: 200109 | ||||
| Published Date: 20040301 | ||||
Collection Name: ESRI® Data & Maps 2004 | ||||
| Physical Location: Reference GIS Data Cabinet | ||||
| Call Number: G70.212 .E77 2004 | ||||
| Acquired Date: 20040630 | ||||
| Distribution Restrictions: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/esridm/2004/help/rdstrght.htm | ||||
Note: To use this data requires software that supports ESRI BIL files. | ||||
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Record ID: 2370_edm04 | ||||
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