I have a weak spot for flowers visible from space. Here are some recent ones I found:

Purple jacaranda trees in Pretoria, South Africa

Pink tajibo trees in eastern Bolivia

Tulips (and probably other flowers too) near Hillegom, The Netherlands

Built a little tool to make and download locator globe maps

Framework: Svelte https://svelte.dev/
Data: Natural Earth (with some modifications) https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Mapping: d3-geo https://d3js.org/d3-geo
Globe dragging: d3-drag https://d3js.org/d3-drag and versor https://github.com/d3/versor
Downloading: svg-crowbar https://svg-crowbar.js.org/

Thanks to all creators and contributors to these amazing tools!

#Cartography #Mapping #DataVisualization

The EU Data Visualisation Guide was published last month

https://data.europa.eu/apps/data-visualisation-guide/

I wrote all the content for it, and I built the interactive publication in @sveltejs. It has 7 chapters and contains a ton of examples. You can search it for a topic, or use it as a guided course and browse from page to page. It basically condenses all I learned about data visualization in the past decade

2 months ago, my friend and direct colleague Rob Simmon lost his job. It was a painful parting, but one little silver ligning is that he was able to pick up his great "A Gentle Introduction to GDAL" series. He just published part 7 of the series, about transforming data:
https://medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-7-transforming-data-178df8640dd2

Find the links to the other 6 parts at the bottom of the article

#GDAL #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

They ruined my colour correction, but German newspaper FAZ did a very nice job of annotating this satellite image of the frontlines near Tokmak in Ukraine. The scale bar is especially brilliant!

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/gegenoffensive-der-ukraine-russland-wurde-auf-der-krim-empfindlich-getroffen-19182855.html

(North is not 100% up, to get the widest crop possible out of the scenes I worked with)