Show HN: The Average color of Earth based on 20 years of satellite data

4 jcattle 2 5/9/2025, 12:33:42 PM landshade.com ↗

This is only for land areas. I also made a wordle type game where you can guess the color for a country every day: https://guess.landshade.com/

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nashashmi · 32d ago

What was your source data for satellite imagery? How were you able to get all year round data for some of these countries?

jcattle · 29d ago

The Source Data are the MODIS sensors on the Aqua and Terra satellites. They have a very coarse resolution (500m) but do a full scan of the earth every single day.

I used a cloud free best-pixel composite for my analysis (MCD43A4.061)

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Show HN: The Average color of Earth based on 20 years of satellite data

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