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test template for VAL catalog

This image is the color texture map in the flyover of the Himalayas. It is a several month long (fall and winter of 2000) composite of the MODIS MOD09A1 surface reflectance product (which is itself an 8-day composite of 500m surface reflectance product.) The elevation for the flyover is from the GTOPO30 DEM.



This flyover starts with an overview showing the Indian subcontinent and Himalayas, then zooms in while turning towards the west to fly over the Indus River in Pakistan. We start a slow turn north with sweeping views of Afghanistan and Tajikistan and pass over the Karakorum before heading east along the spine of the Himalaya. At the eastern end of the Himalaya we turn north again and slowly zoom back out to the starting point. The flyover passes over all the 8000m peaks; but until I get a chance to label them, they may be hard to pick out since the DEM is not very high resolution.

Here are some Quicktimes of the flyover.

- fix some unpleasant colors in the texture

- make a new texture that uses MODIS data from only one season

- fix wobble in camera path at the beginning and end of the flight path

- find higher resolution DEMs to inset in areas of interest (everest, etc.)

- start zoom in from a full disk view

- make an additional version with 8000m peaks somehow marked or labeled

- ????