You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Beautiful Satellite Images of our Planet #4
Yeah the image files are 3-13mb a piece ^^
The originals are around 1.5gb though when including all wavelengths :p
I'll see what I can do for the next post int he series ;)
1.5 gb? That's crazy!
I know ;p It's because of numerous data layers. There are 13 different sensors on the satellites recording wave-frequencies in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. These are then released in one large file from the same location at the same time. So that you can process different files together and produce images that help you see what is interesting to you. The program produces well over 5 Terabytes of image data daily. which will increase a lot more in years to come.