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Made w/ an old map, my hand-dyed papers & a facsimile vintage label I just got from Cavallini. Oh, and also part of an older collage just ripped to pieces!
--Weekly Explorer's Transmission--
--Log of Eagle-Eye Silver—
-- 21 Junali 3815--
Exploration of sector H09 and the local planet Wastyria has been rather uneventful. Unlike the insane predators of Arium Major, the chill of this cold water ball seems to have stifled the size of most native creatures—though there apparently are the Rockback Whales discovered by pilot Hannibal, I haven’t yet seen any yet. Perhaps they are both rare and reclusive? Anyway, with the lack of animal encounters on this planet so far, I’ve been mapping out as many of the tiny islands that dot Wastyria’s watery surface. The cold of the planet is just enough in most regions to freeze the ocean spray, but not enough to solidify the ocean water itself; so I bought down my Barracuda Special from orbit and have been skimming around the ocean at speed for a few days. The pilots and drivers sure think they’ve got a need for speed, but exploring is where the real fun’s at. We get all the fun toys from the engineers before those guys do, and since we’re the ones with the alien close encounters, we hang on to the good stuff! This little speedboat is amazing. It’s blindingly fast and incredibly maneuverable making it perfect for Wastyria with all its random rock piles sticking out of the ocean. Bombing around in this little baby for a few days has been a fun vacation from the crazy monsters I usually have to take out or run from. We’ll see where Lord Business sends me next week, maybe there’ll be more action.
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This time it is for real: this is Peirce's Quincuncial Mapping that turns a spherical panorama into a square, with the nadir in the center and the zenith in the four corners. This mapping is also tileable (see comment).
The previous images I uploaded were also a square projection, but the zenith and nadir are in the middle of the sides of the square (known as Adams World).
This image is part of a set exploring the different cartographical projections.
The Panavia Tornado emerged as the product of a consortium of European companies from the United Kingdom, West Germany and Italy during the latter half of the Cold War years. The company was established as "Panavia Aircraft GmbH" and founded on March 29th, 1969, headquartered in Hallbergmoos, Bavaria, Germany (the group was originally to include The Netherlands). The aircraft was one of several famous ""swing wing" developments to appear during the period that included the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23/-27 "Flogger". The engines would come from the Turbo-Union consortium made up of Rolls-Royce, MTU and FiatAvio.
The Tornado was designed as a strike-oriented fighter that could operate from short and/or battle damaged runways at a time when World War 3 was a very real possibility across Europe. Indeed, the Tornado proved a very important part of the European deterrent during this time, intended to serve as a first-strike system should the Cold War ever have gone "hot". The Panavia Tornado has since seen operational service with Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
The initial prototype went airborne for the first time on August 14th, 1974 and production-quality forms were being delivered beginning in July of 1980. The radar was a Texas Instruments terrain following system with ground-mapping capabilities. Flight control was aided through a full fly-by-wire suite with center stick. Both crew positions held ejection seats. Navigation was by way of a digital Inertial Navigation System.
The Tornado line evolved through three major production variants during its service life, these becoming the strike-oriented Tornado IDS ("InterDictor / Strike"), the Tornado ECR (Electronic Combat / Reconnaissance) for countering enemy air defenses, and the Tornado ADV - the dedicated interceptor of the group. The IDS and ECR airframes were the two most closely related marks, sharing some 80% commonality in parts but it was the IDS mark that could be called on to deliver all manner of ordnance including guided missiles and bombs while providing its own defense through twin internal cannons and onboard countermeasures. All Tornado forms were two-seat offerings. The variable wing nature of the design allowed the aircraft to adjust its wing angle in-flight. This design decision allowed the airframe to main all of the qualities of low-speed handling as well as high-speed performance when needed. The wing assemblies could be manually (or automatically in some models) adjusted to reach angles of 25- to 67-degrees.
The Tornado IDS was given a thick fuselage with slab sides and a flat floor. The twin engine configuration (side-by-side) was aspirated through two large intake openings found at the sides of the aircraft. The crewmembers were seated in tandem with the pilot at front and systems officer at rear. The wings were swept along their leading and trailing edges - each sporting several hardpoints which also adjusted based on wing sweep (always facing forward). Additional hardpoints were found under the fuselage to broaden the aircraft's ordnance-carrying qualities considerably. The empennage consisted of a single vertical tail fin and swept horizontal tailplanes. The tricycle undercarriage was wholly retractable in the design.
The RAF took on initial stocks of IDS models as the Tornado GR.1 and these appeared in 1979 with laser-rangefinders fitted under the nose. They were also given down-rated engines and fixed intake openings. A reconnaissance-minded version then became the GR.1A outfitted with BAe Side-Looking InfraRed (SLIR) and the Vinten IR linescan system (sans internal cannons) while the GR.1B mark formed into a specialized anti-ship strike model (armed with 4 x "Sea Eagle" anti-ship missiles), these based on the preceding GR.1. Some 26 examples were modified as such and early versions lacked onboard tracking facilities (added later). An upgrade program spanning from 1996 to 2003 yielded the GR.4 (strike) and GR.4A (reconnaissance) of which 142 eventually existed. The GR.4 was born of a GR.1 modernization endeavor (mid-life upgrade) and this series arrived in 1994 while still in use today (February 2014). Introduced was an all-new HUD (Head-Up Display), improved Electronic CounterMeasures (ECMs) and improved avionics.
The GR.4 is powered by 2 x Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofan engines delivering 9,850lbs thrust dry and 17,270lbs thrust with reheat. Maximum speed is 1,500 miles per hour (approximately Mach 2.2) with a range out to 2,415 miles (ferry), a service ceiling of 50,000 feet and a rate-of-climb reaching 15,100 feet per minute. Standard armament includes 2 x 27mm Mauser BK-27 internal cannons along the fuselage sides and up to eleven hardpoints for missiles, bombs, fuel tanks and mission pods.
To date, the Tornado platform has been used during the Gulf War (1991), the Bosnian War (1992-1995), the Kosovo War (1998-1999), Operation Enduring Freedom (2001-present), Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-present), the Libyan Civil War (2011) and in limited action over Yemen. Even today, the Tornado GR.4 mark remains an important portion of European strike firepower though its useful service life is approaching with stocks expected to be retired in full by the end of the decade.
In early 2015, it was announced that the service lives of RAF Tornado's would be extended due to the British commitment in Iraq against ISIS. Three squadrons will be retained until March of 2017 and the aircraft maintain many of the strike qualities and munitions support still lacking in the Typhoon aircraft. However the RAF are still committed to a 2019 retirement of its GR.4 stock. These will be succeeded by Eurofighter Typhoons fully-equipped with the Tornado's existing Air-to-Ground (AG) capabilities.
This is a collection of images, infographics, visualization, maps... reached on Internet. Here the list of link for each visualization:
Emotional Cartography by Christian Nold
Hurricane tracker by Stamen
Cabspotting by Stamen
Is that enough?
The latest Mars image mosaic as seen through the lens of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.
The mosaic comprises 2702 individual swaths of the martian surface, up to and including the spacecraft’s 10 821st orbit of the planet, which it completed on 30 June 2012.
In total, 87.8% of the surface has been mapped at any resolution, with 61.5% mapped at a resolution of 20 m per pixel or better.
Each white marker around the border of the image represents 10º of latitude or longitude.
For more information, and a much higher resolution of this image please click here.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum); images processed by F. Jansen (ESA).
The slightly sawn off range of the Atlas Works that fronted Paragon China on Sutherland Road, Longton in the Potteries. The left of the building originally extended further out to encompass an arched entrance and lodge, adding about 25% to the overall frontage.
This old potbank dates back to 1903 and was set up by Herbert James Aynsley and Hugh Irving, his son-in law, transferring the Star China business from St. Gregory's Works and changing their name to Paragon China.
It continued under this name as a family business until it was aquired by Thomas C Wld & Sons in 1960, the Paragon name was kept in place even though repeatedly changing hands. In 1964 Allied English Potteries took over and then in 1972 Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd. took ownership and traded designs under the Paragon name until 1991. Their Royal Albert ware was a Paragon design.
More recently this building operated as a factory shop for Aynsley China whose main worksoperated along Sutherland Road.
It is now home to Midway Manufacturing who specialise in electro-mechanical and electronic assemblies, long may they keep the building in use.
The car park to the front would appear to have been occupied by terraced housing on maps from the 1950's.
The doorway wasn't part of the original structure, it replaces a window.
Bratislava Tatra K2S tram 7110 waits to depart from Komisárky with a route 3 working to Hlavná Stanica (the main railway station). 7110 carries an overall advert for the "Twin City Liner" catamaran service on the River Danube between Bratislava and Vienna
Having flown in to Bratislava on the 06.30 flight from Stansted, I was heading for a couple of nights in Vienna (for tram gricing and mapping purposes) - Ryanair don't fly to Vienna, and I was using some extremely cheap flights booked a few months earlier during a special offer. But I spent several hours in Bratislava, mostly to complete the tram network as two sections of track had been closed for engineering work when I'd previously been here, in August 2004, one of which was an intermediate section of this line.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.
Sentinel-2A fully integrated at IABG’s facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany on 24 February 2015, before being packed up and shipped to French Guiana for launch.
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2A combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities – a first for ESA. With a 290 km-wide coverage path and frequent revisits, Sentinel-2 will deliver views of Earth’s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.
Information from this latest mission will help to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world’s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, contribute to disaster mapping and much more.
Sentinel-2 will be launched in June on a Vega rocket from the CSG, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
More information available via the article: Last look at Sentinel-2A.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja
We have a subscription to the National Geographic magazine and this is a map that accompanied an article on the Russian war against Ukraine.
The dashboard or IP (Fordspeak instrument panel) inside my trusty 2013.5MY Ford Mondeo Titanium X 2.0L TDCi which has been fully decommissioned from its service life as a hackney carriage taxi after 5.6 years and about 210,000 miles in my ownership.
With 241,979 miles on the odometer with mileage related wear and tear taking its toll and an uneconomic to repair major powershift gearbox fault which renders the vehicle undriveable, it's probably the end of the road for this faithful old girl.
Note the integrated audio and 7 inch 'Touchscreen Navigation PLUS' satellite navigation and mapping system which was an option fitted at extra cost when this car was new.
The 'Touchscreen Navigation PLUS' system differs from the more common Mondeo business edition touchscreen units as the PLUS package comes with with 9 premium audio speakers (instead of 8 standard speakers) with increased output along with a reversing camera and integrated screen.
The easiest way to tell the difference between the two 2007-2014 Ford Mondeo touchscreen types is the PLUS system comes with silver coloured spacers between the unit buttons as seen here in place of the standard black and chrome finished volume and climate control switches.
Note the wear and grime on the drivers seat..
All my EA63LDJ's www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/EA63LDJ/
All my dashboards www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/dashboard/
My Ford Cortina Sierra Mondeo album flic.kr/s/aHsiXhTYna
The Red Mill is located on the South Branch of the Raritan River in the town center of Clinton, NJ. Built in 1810, the Red Mill originally served as a woolen mill. Over the next 100 years, the Mill was used at different times to process grains, plaster, talc and graphite. The Mill was also used to produce peach baskets, as well as to generate electricity and pump water for the town.
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Testing mobile mapping of carbon-dixoide (CO2) in cities using the prototype DIYSCO2 sensor on car-sharing vehicles.
Part of album Urban CO2 Emission Mapping.
This method to map carbon dioxide emissions using mobile sensors on vehicles is described in: Lee J.K., Christen A., Ketler R., Nesic Z. (2017): 'A mobile sensor network to map carbon dioxide emissions in urban environments'. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:10.5194/amt-2016-200.
mini mapping vidéo réaliser dans une ancienne prison des années 1850 dans la ville de Le Reole en Gironde, France. Pour l’exposition/installation “Evasion” disponible jusqu’à fin aout 2018.
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video mini mapping realize in a old jail of the 1850s in the city of Le Reole in Gironde, France. For the exhibition / installation "Evasion" available until end of August 2018.
Testing mobile mapping of carbon-dixoide (CO2) in cities using the prototype DIYSCO2 sensor on car-sharing vehicles. Carbon dioxide is measured using the tubes on the roofs. Photo: Andreas Christen, UBC.
Part of album Urban CO2 Emission Mapping.
This method to map carbon dioxide emissions using mobile sensors on vehicles is described in: Lee J.K., Christen A., Ketler R., Nesic Z. (2017): 'A mobile sensor network to map carbon dioxide emissions in urban environments'. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, doi:10.5194/amt-2016-200.