Taupo, Marotiri, taken in the WORLDVIEW APP[2048 × 1529][OC]

Picture found by the Ditpub “Beautiful World” searcher.

Original was/is available from http://imgur.com/oPwqjFW

Here are some definitions that might clarify something 🙂

Taupo (/ˈtoʊpɔː/, commonly pronounced /ˈtaʊpoʊ/) is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand.

Marotiri is a group of four uninhabited volcanic rocks protruding from the sea (and several submerged rocks), forming the southeastern end of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.

WorldView-3 is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by DigitalGlobe. It was launched on August 13, 2014, to become DigitalGlobe’s sixth satellite in orbit, joining Ikonos which was launched in 1999, QuickBird in 2001, WorldView-1 in 2007, GeoEye-1 in 2008, and WorldView-2 in 2009. WorldView-3 provides commercially available panchromatic imagery of 0.31 m (12 in) resolution, eight-band multispectral imagery with 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) resolution, shortwave infrared imagery at 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) resolution, and CAVIS (Clouds, Aerosols, Vapors, Ice, and Snow) data at 30 m (98 ft) resolution.

Published by DitPub on 2015-10-08 17:16:10, under the category “Beautiful World”

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