EVS-Islands

This is a preliminary map of the Orkney Islands. So far I've used MS Live Local imagery, Landsat ETM+ imagery, NGA Prototype Global Shoreline and World Vector Shoreline to complete this first look at the Orkneys. Landsat ETM+ is largely cloud-obscured and only workable for the southern portion. MS Live Local uses some proprietary imagery that acts alot like Landsat, but I'm not for sure. NGA PGS makes up the northern end of Scotland and WVS was used as a check against other vectors. The project started with a viewers request for bathymetric data. He got the data, but the shorelines were WVS (1:250,000). My mapping is better than WVS, but not EVS quality. It is good, but not great. More will be coming on the Orkney's.

Enjoy!

Labels: EVS, Global Mapper, island, Landsat, Marplot, MS Live Local, NGA, Orkneys, PGS, UK, WVS

Posted by Mr Minton at 6/08/2007 12:38:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Aah, yes! I remember my first time, like it was yesterday. I spent the evening searching for the right one and it appeared. Different shades of blue and cute little palm trees scattered about - a map of Oeno Atoll. This was before my purchase of Global Mapper and discovery of FREE Landsat mosaics. I was reminded of this first encounter - a map created by someone other than a professional cartographer. It was a map that looked good and was cartographically decent - my aspiration to create maps of islands crystallized that day. If Jean Pierre could do it, Mr Minton sure could. The rest is history - lots of EVS island maps later, loads of Thoughts, tons of Data, educational How To's and interesting Comparisons. And I'm still fired up, looking forward to summer vaction and making maps of interesting islands.

I can't help but think that my maps have been "the first" for many of my viewer. I'm hopeful that when they view that obscure island that they've Google searched and up pops EVS-Islands with not only a map or series of maps but also satellite imagery of the island as well - I hope they say "Wow! That's cool!" And after they study my maps for awhile that they get inspired to create their own unique library of maps to share with the world.

Enjoy!

Labels: EVS, Global Mapper, island, Jean Pierre Langer, Landsat, map, Oeno Atoll

Posted by Mr Minton at 6/06/2007 08:39:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

If you visit my Flickr account, EVS-Islands, you can check out all of the images I've posted that deal with my islands work on this blog. The long image is of thumbnails of 134 EVS-Islands sets that I have finished since the first part of 2006. It is an interesting compilation

Labels: collections, EVS, Flickr, images, island, sets

Posted by Mr Minton at 6/04/2007 09:47:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Ice Surrounds Mountain Peaks or Islands?

This Looks Like An Island

This is Definitely An Island - Claw Island GL

These series of images were displayed and discussed at EO Newsroom. As the ice covering Greenland melts at an alarming rate, many more new islands will be revealed. For an island person, such as I, each new island revealed is exciting. I only wish it could be done without melting ice caps which will eventually cause catastrophic problems for our global community.

Enjoy the new island! Not the other stuff.

Labels: EO Newsroom, Greenland, island, NASA

Posted by Mr Minton at 6/03/2007 10:29:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post