Winter Satellite Images

[nhelminger]

Is it possible to change satellite images to a winter view with snow?
As far as I know the GeoEye-Satellite is making such images.
If not does anybody know if and when this would be possible.
It would be great!

[barryhunter (KML Guru)]

You might be luckly looking in the Historical Imagry feature. In which
case you can use gx:TimeSpan etc to jump to in KML.

otherwise no.

[Nymor]

It would be a great feature to have especially in areas that are very
seasonal.

I've come across this need myself in that I have app that covers
various Nordic Skiing routes in North America and they just look so
wrong when everything is green - and in a few instances the routes go
across lakes that are frozen when the races take place but in GE are
blue.

The Hisorical Imagery unfortunately doesn't help either as it all
seems to be taken at similar (summer) times of the year - at least in
the instances where I have looked.

I'm with you on this one nhelminger.

Nymor

[shannon9585]

I am by no means an expert, but I do know that imagery used for land
cover analysis is not typically taken in winter because it makes it
harder to distinguish different vegetation types, wetlands, etc. I
suppose this may vary depending on your location though. With
Google's access to various resources, it would be nice if they could
obtain winter imagery.

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[Geospectrum]

I suspect you will be dissapointed. the imagery comes from the
satellite imagery providers who genrally collect
imagery on behalf of clients, who on the whole do not want snow
covered images as the snow covers the ground featues
they want to see. You could always buy some images collected in
winter, often difficult because of cloud cover, and create
your own image overlay. Expensive if it is just for fun!

[stillinorbit]

I, too, would like to be able to view winter images, or at least mimic a winter scene using summer imagery.  Here's a very interesting NY Times article that appears to use GE, or some similar application.  You'll have to scroll down a little in the article, but you'll soon seen a GE-like winter scene over Stevens Pass, WA.  It appears to me that the article mimics winter (as opposed to using wintertime-acquired imagery), because in places the snow "effect" looks a little thin, and the underlying summer imagery begins to appear.  In any event, the result is quite compelling.

www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/