Earth As Art A Sharq El Owainat, Egypt story
Agriculture
Deserts
Description
The view of this region from Landsat is so fascinating, it’s the subject of two Earth As Art images. These and all Earth As Art images can be downloaded for free from the EROS Image Gallery.
Location
Eerie Cloud Shadows — Earth As Art 4
Geometric Desert — Earth As Art 4
Sharq El Owainat, Egypt Additional Imagery & Stories
Landsat’s Accuracy
The Sharq El Owainat airport is visible on the right side of these images. The runway appears in the 1997 image. Landsat’s accuracy is key to other sy...
Picking Calibration Sites
Engineers use test sites around the world to make sure Landsat imagery is consistent and accurate. These calibration test sites are regions on the Ear...
Watering the Sahara
One of the best test sites, named Egypt-2, was steadily reliable until around the late 1990s. In a vast expanse of Sahara Desert in southern Egypt, ce...