There is another extension available for my Musaicum satellite image product – covering the island of Greenland.

Greenland has been in the political news quite a bit in recent months, so it is probably a fitting time to introduce the new image.

As long time readers of my blog know, Greenland is also – contrary to marketing claims – not fully covered by Sentinel-2 image data. Creating a Musaicum extension for all of Greenland, therefore, required changing the Musaicum process to allow use of Landsat image data. Some subtle color differences between the Sentinel-2 and Landsat based parts of the mosaic are inevitable due to the different characteristics of the sensors, but it still is in essence a seamless transit. This also makes the Musaicum Greenland the first visual color image at this resolution class that is produced to a common quality standard for the whole area of Greenland.

The Musaicum Greenland replaces my previous regional image product of Greenland from 2015 – the Landsat mosaic of Greenland. A bit more than 10 years ago this was a milestone in high quality mosaics of more remote regions, and to this date it remains the most uniformly consistent image product of Greenland at higher resolution available – with exception of the Musaicum image introduced here now.

For better comparison i produced samples of many of the same spots where i also showed samples of the Landsat mosaic – in different projections though.

I also offer the option to provide the image with local contrast adjustment – a method i originally introduced for my Antarctic mosaic and that is useful in areas with strong brightness contrast – like in Greenland with the bright ice sheet and glaciers and dark bare ground on the other hand.

I have not updated the Mercator image tiles yet, that should follow in the near future. – See below for update.

If you are interested in using this new image product you should have a look at the product page.

Update: The Mercator map is now also updated with the Greenland tiles.