{"id":1791486,"date":"2021-07-26T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791486"},"modified":"2021-07-26T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T00:55:24","slug":"erin-daviss-average-colours-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/erin-daviss-average-colours-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Davis’s Average Colours of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erin Davis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Erin Davis<\/a> has created maps showing the average colour of each country of the world<\/a> (plus \u00a0maps showing the average colour of each U.S. state and county). She derived the average colour from Sentinel-2<\/a> natural-colour satellite imagery; she appends the process and the code to the end of her post. [My Modern Met<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erin Davis has created maps showing the average colour of each country of the world (plus \u00a0maps showing the average colour of each U.S. state and county). She derived the average colour from Sentinel-2 natural-colour… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,177,1526],"class_list":["post-1791486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data-visualizations","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-sentinel-2","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1827287,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/02\/satellite-imagery-of-the-eruption-near-grindavik\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791486,"position":0},"title":"Satellite Imagery of the Eruption Near Grindav\u00edk","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 February 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"The Copernicus-2A satellite imaged the smoke plume and lava flow from the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Grindav\u00edk, Iceland yesterday; Marco Langbroek processed natural-colour and short-wave infrared imagery to achieve the above image, which he posted to Bluesky. 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