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ESA and the Animated Map of the Greening Planet
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dct writes "Cartography has an entry about an animated gif map of the greening of the planet between 1999 and 2002 from its Globcarbon project. From the entry: "This is part of ESA’s attempt to chart ten years of the Earth's vegetation. ... In processing terms we had about 45 terabytes of input data and 18 terabytes of output data...""
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