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Wednesday, 3rd August 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Another new kind of image weirdness here, with this giant stripy blue square off the coast of Nova Scotia. Very odd.
Thanks: Ashley Bouchie
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Its just an old photo and different exposure to the others
Well, it’s not older than the surrounding tiles, this one is from 2004-03-30, the link to the original DG image is
http://archive.digitalglobe.com/archive/showBrowse.php?catID=1010010002D22204
This image is full of noise, and it seems that probably some automatic algorithm tried its best to improve it and that’s what we see
Looks way over-exposed to me. The small bit of coastline is washed out and shows no features at all.
Looks like Snow. Maybe it was taken during high winds ?
It looks like that area was getting more direct clear lighting than we normally think of Nova Scotia having, but they have summer too. Compare the beach and ocean colors from the post to the colors around the Florida Keys / Google Earth
This picture recalls me with Korean crumpled paper : View Placemark / Google Earth Strange isn’t it ?
when will GsSs finally realize that these “weirdness” are the most boring, most uninteresting feature on google maps? its like staring into a friggin wall! and its amazing how people can actually create discussion about it.
oops..i meant GgSs.. but still.. curse you and such!
Possibly taken during summer, or with a data sample that highlights thermoclines in water?
Okay, everybody, joe doesn’t like weirdness. We all need to stop discussing it.
its obviously just a part of the sea from another season… ive seen that many other places on the maps!
That’s a satellite artifact called Striping. It’s from data that is damaged or poorly calibrated, or stretched so harshly that the detector values separate visibly from each other. It looks to me as if the only data they could find over that area was a bad scene.
I’m really surprised there aren’t more of these in the Google archives. It’s hard to get a complete coverage of the world without a few messed-up scenes like this.
There is another square just like this one on the southwestern side of the Hudson Bay.
Big deal
You idiots! The Northern lights!