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Remove landsat 7 black stripes from QGIS

July 6, 2020July 4, 2020 mh

I figured this out on my own! This is a manual solution. So first, you have a raster file as follows: (in my case, I downloaded it from Google Earth Engine). Those black stripes are from when the satellite that took the picture of this place (Landsat #7) broke. It broke four years after it… Continue reading Remove landsat 7 black stripes from QGIS

The latest Landsat images on Earth Engine

September 17, 2019 mh

I had thought that Google's big library of satellite images was no longer furnishing us with the latest Landsat images. I was using the same lines of code I always had been, and I could never find images past April 2017. Well, I figured out what the problem is. The images are there, alright. But… Continue reading The latest Landsat images on Earth Engine

Those cool sliders that show “before” and “after” images

September 11, 2019September 17, 2019 mh

I wanted to look at some satellite images from Hurricane Dorian, and I found a lot of them -- specifically Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands -- up on Google's big library of satellite images. It was cool, because when I was for example searching on September 9, there were already images of the Bahamas… Continue reading Those cool sliders that show “before” and “after” images

Google Earth Engine no longer adds Landsat images .. WRONG!

September 5, 2019September 17, 2019 mh

EDIT: I have finally discovered the trick to getting the latest Landsat images on Google Earth Engine ... which means my whole blog post below is incorrect. I had a feeling it would turn out like this, because honestly? Whenever you start giving too much credit to Europeans, that should be the red flag to… Continue reading Google Earth Engine no longer adds Landsat images .. WRONG!