Burning Man '07 seen from above (hi-res jpeg)
Link to 8698 x 8735 pixel 7.32 MB jpeg of Black Rock City, as seen from space the sky, during Burning Man 2007. If this link dies, I'll host a copy somewhere. (thanks, Wayne Correia!)
Update: BB reader Frogbeater points us to the source...
Pict Earth has the Black Rock City image in place in the Black Rock Desert. I've never used them before and it's a little clunkier than Google Earth, but it has some more current images in some places than Google does. Doesn't seem to work with Safari though, Firefox works fine.BB reader William Harmon points us to an interesting similarity...
The jpg of the burning man site reminded me of the early paleolithic site in Louisianna called Poverty Point. The site layout is stikingly similar. Most Americans are completley unaware of the massive earthen works associated with the archeology of the US.Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson says,
Just a quick note about that Burning Man image. My understanding is that it's not from space, but rather a mosaic of shots taken from a Cessna. Pict'Earth is working with us on similar UAV imagery and we did the Wired Science UAV episode with them. Here's a shot from that session at the Alameda Naval Air Station (AKA the set of the Matrix 2): Link.
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Wow. What do you know? It really is order in a hell of a lot of chaos. That's pretty slick.
Wouldn't want us dwelling on the fact that we stole this land, would we?
Just though I would point out that this is not satellite imagery. Pict-earth doesn’t even sell satellite imagery. Most likely this is UAV shots, stitched together in Photoshop. If you download and zoom in, you can see different sections of rings with better clarity then others. The seam lines are running down the roads.
Anyway.. People need to learn that not everything shot from above is shot from a satellite.
This looks like a composite aerial flyover image (not a satellite image), a project of several aviators/participants, discussed recently on the Burning Man aviators list by Jeffrey Johnson of Pictearth.
He said the image is: "(...) our mosaic of BRC07. This was shot with a Canon G7 from Fractals 172, and [was] processed by our team. (...) Our goal was to make a time-lapse photo throughout the event to show the construction and destruction of the city, but this will have to wait for next year. (...) We do however have some great imagery above the dust storm on thursday afternoon."
A link to this image was also sent out by the Burning Man organization, on their Regional Coordinators list, incorrectly identifying it as a satellite image.
If I remember my sophomore Louisiana History class correctly, Poverty Point is the oldest man-made construction in N. America.
I love it that you can see the tracks of the water trucks. The Google image (at http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=40.178873,-95.712891&sspn=43.078783,83.847656&ie=UTF8&ll=40.774903,-119.227774&spn=0.005257,0.013325&t=h&z=17&om=1) shows the water trucks even better.
Ya, and I can still smell it from up here.
"Ya, and I can still smell it from up here."
actually the heat and very dry air tends to wick away any smell... or so i have noticed.
i guess i don't go right up to people to check... but in the 4 years i went i never really noticed a large number of obvious putrid BO.
If you zoom in really close right on the center, you can see the man's shadow. It.. looks cool.
This image is perfectly visible in Google Earth as well. The coordinates are 40º 46'09.47 N 119º 13'12.37 W.
Here's a zoomable viewer to make it easy to see the detail without downloading the entire image:
http://yourzoom.s3.amazonaws.com/bm2007.jpg.reimg/index.html