Washington Shoreline Photos 26
molywi writes "Between 1992 and 1997, the Washington State Department of Ecology acquired oblique aerial photography of the state's entire 2,500 miles of marine shoreline. The collection of over 10,000 photographs provides a valuable educational monitoring tool for coastal managers and the public. The true-color photos comprise a continuous series, panning left to right along the shoreline. The photos were taken to optimize sun angle, shoreline orientation, and low tides. Oblique photos are useful for interpreting bluff geology and land-sliding, riparian vegetation, and shoreline modifications such as bulkheads and seawalls."
I Spy (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I Spy (Score:2, Interesting)
What would be very cool would be if for all the neighboring pictures where it is practical, have some sort of morphing/shifting algorithm to generate a smooth scroll between them.
What I'd like to see, though, is a flight simulator program with a distributed photographic database. When you fly over a new area, you P2P the image data from the net collection, rather than having to have all the photos on your own machine. Model data could similarly be incorporated, perhaps with the ability for users to design in new bits of scenery (adding their own house, etc.).
Fun shots! (Score:2, Interesting)
Obstruction Island! [wa.gov]
More Fun shots! (Score:1, Interesting)
Pre-demolition KingDome [wa.gov]!
More Fun shots! (Score:3, Funny)
Bangor Naval Submarine Base with ACTUAL SUBMARINES! [wa.gov]
Re:Fun shots! (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Fun shots! (Score:2, Interesting)
Deception Pass [wa.gov]
US-Canada Border at Point Roberts [wa.gov] (try viewing the image to the right)
cool (Score:2)
If you pan over two to the right, you can even see the store where the Asian guy would get pissed at us for buying charcoal.
So many memories.
Xyrillian (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Xyrillian (Score:1)
Here's mine (Score:4, Funny)
How many miles? (Score:5, Interesting)
2500 miles, my foot!
Fractals (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How many miles? (Score:5, Informative)
Coastlines are fractal: the closer you look, the longer they get.
Both the ocean and the continent are made of atoms, so the fractal approximation breaks down when you look too closely, and you end up with a finite path length. For the purposes of aerial photography, you might as well take a minimal cover of the coast using discs of radius ~1km and sum their diameters. Small crinkles are completely irrelevant.
It's one of the few really fundamental mathematical discoveries of the last century.
This sounds like a troll, but there is a shred of truth hidden inside. There have been plenty of deep, fundamental mathematical discoveries in the last century, and I doubt you can find many mathematicians who would agree with your sentiments. All of the people appearing on this page [st-and.ac.uk] have done very impressive work, and you may notice that fractals are not featured at all. Unfortunately, fractal geometry is one of the few recent advances which can be understood even superficially by people lacking a background in mathematics, and this seems to raise the public profile of the field substantially.
They missed my mother-in-law (Score:2)
I have no friggen idea how she moved this stuff from Northern California to north-western washington all by herself.
I found the picture which shows her old trailer, but alas, the rest of the junk isn't in the photo. Damn... it would have made quite the photo.
nude bathers (Score:1)
Nice site design (Score:1)
where's Gates (Score:1)
Re:where's Gates (Score:1)
Great way to find a fishin spot! (Score:2, Insightful)
About a year ago my boss showed this site to me...
He uses it to check the water level at the shallow areas he likes to fly fish at.
Bangor Trident Sub base (Score:3, Interesting)
Bangor/King Spit
nothing interesting except the large building and parking lot [wa.gov]
same large building [wa.gov]
a loading dock [wa.gov]
Support dock with small patrol boats [wa.gov]
one or two docked subs [wa.gov]
Two docked subs? [wa.gov]
Ordnance loading dock? [wa.gov]
I wonder how long these photos will remain publicly available.
Re:Bangor Trident Sub base (Score:3, Informative)
California Coastline (Score:3, Informative)
similar to the Degree Confluence Project... (Score:1)
For those who haven't had a chance to look at the Degree Confluence Project [confluence.org]... do so now. Don't waste another second.
Basically, they're trying to take a photograph of the confluence of every latitude/longitude integer degree intersections... Absolutely fascinating.