Matt Wronkiewicz's Weblog

I've finished my first Google Gadget. It's an up-to date map of the Earth using satellite imagery from the Aqua and Terra observation satellites. The satellite data gets downloaded from NASA GSFC and turned into tiles which work with the Google Maps API. No images older than 36 hours are used. There are other satellite maps available online which are more up to date or more complete, but not both.

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I posted a panorama of our Christmas Lights display here. This is my first panorama shot with the new Canon XTi that Darcy got me. With a field of view of about 65 degrees, I can shoot 360 x 90 degree panoramas with about 20 images. That would have taken 50 images on the camcorder. Also, shooting RAW images allowed me to do some tonemapping on this scene. This scene was particularly difficult because the reindeer on my lawn were so bright that everything else on the street was black in comparison. Using HDR tonemapping, I was able to… Read More