How to Make a Historical Animation with Landsat

Here’s how to whip up a three decade animation of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, using Landsat Explorer. And it only takes a few minutes.

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0:00 Intro
0:20 Assembling the animation
1:47 Checking the result
2:14 Saving an animation as an MP4
2:44 More animation examples
3:33 Closing

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Here are direct links to the animations I show in this video. Just hit play:

Amazon deforestation: http://tinyurl.com/3drjz7s4
South Las Vegas: http://tinyurl.com/3yytn5e4
Lake Mead: http://tinyurl.com/cjr7cfbz
Bingham Canyon Mine: http://tinyurl.com/na6a6zne
Daxing Airport construction: http://tinyurl.com/bd32e78
Three Gorges Dam: http://tinyurl.com/yc3zud6w
Midwest agricultural season: http://tinyurl.com/4kw9767e
Atlas Mountains thermal: http://tinyurl.com/35343etw

For a more broad look at the capabilities of Landsat Explorer, check out this introduction that walks through the features and analysis tools.

Love, John