Reader Shayne Kaschl has contacted us with these satellite images he is puzzling over. Read the full account here
I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting
I am a title curative of 11 years and a beta tester for the GIS system since it's inception; meaning that I have examined satellite pics for the geographic information systems across the world. This is a refraction phenomena that occurs on occasion when the sunlight hits the water, is refracted back at just the right angle from sand that is just the right color and at the right depth to act as a kind of prism onto the surface of the water. I've seen this happen before when we were trying to use the GIS images to map the ocean bottom and shorelines because it screws up the data that we get back and we have to go back over and re-image that area. Talk about everything having to be in alignment for this to occur. Great catch on your part. Hope this helps.
I am a title curative of 11 years and a beta tester for the GIS system since it's inception; meaning that I have examined satellite pics for the geographic information systems across the world. This is a refraction phenomena that occurs on occasion when the sunlight hits the water, is refracted back at just the right angle from sand that is just the right color and at the right depth to act as a kind of prism onto the surface of the water. I've seen this happen before when we were trying to use the GIS images to map the ocean bottom and shorelines because it screws up the data that we get back and we have to go back over and re-image that area. Talk about everything having to be in alignment for this to occur. Great catch on your part. Hope this helps.
I am a title curative of 11 years and a beta tester for the GIS system since it's inception; meaning that I have examined satellite pics for the geographic information systems across the world. This is a refraction phenomena that occurs on occasion when the sunlight hits the water, is refracted back at just the right angle from sand that is just the right color and at the right depth to act as a kind of prism onto the surface of the water. I've seen this happen before when we were trying to use the GIS images to map the ocean bottom and shorelines because it screws up the data that we get back and we have to go back over and re-image that area. Talk about everything having to be in alignment for this to occur. Great catch on your part. Hope this helps.
