Lake Simcoe Ontario, Canada
Lake Simcoe, one of Canada’s premier ice fishing lakes, has frozen over. Beneath the ice live large populations of lake trout, herring, and whitefish.
Date: February 23, 2016
Source: www.planet.com
Circular Fields, Turkey
Farmers in the Fertile Crescent have relied on irrigation since the dawn of agriculture. Water from reservoirs developed on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the past 25 years enabled the expansion of cropland in the region, including these circular fields in the Şanlıurfa Province of southeastern Turkey.
Date: October 5, 2014
Source: www.planet.com
Luuq, Somalia
Luuq, Somalia rests in a large oxbow in the Jubba River. The city is currently a haven for hundreds of Somalia’s “internally displaced persons”. Shelters for these refugees appear to have been constructed after August 2014—when the U. N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs mapped the area.
Date: January 12, 2016
Source: www.planet.com
Yarlung Tsangpo, China
South of Lhasa, the Yarlung Tsangpo River is a series of sinuous, interlaced channels. Like the Ansi River, this stretch of the Yarlung Tsangpo is an example of a braided river. Hundreds of miles downstream, the Yarlung Tsangpo cuts through the eastern Himalayas to become the Brahmaputra.
Date: February 4, 2015
Source: www.planet.com
Farming the Manchurian Plain, China
Thin roads connect the small villages in China’s vast Northeastern Plain—a region renowned for its agriculture. Farms in the area cultivate rice, sugar, wheat, corn, and soy beans.
Date: September 11, 2015
Source: www.planet.com
Desert Landscape, Mauritania
Rocky cliffs give way to wind-sculpted dunes in this image of the Mauritanian desert captured by a RapidEye satellite.
Date: January 12, 2016
Source: www.planet.com
Manifa Project, Saudi Arabia
In shallow water off the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia lie the 27 artificial islands, 25 miles of causeway, and 13 bridges of the Manifa Heavy Crude Project. Manifa is the most recent major oil field opened by Saudi Aramco, and produces up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day.
Date: April 19, 2015
Source: www.planet.com
Portage la Prairie, Canada
In shallow water off the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia lie the 27 artificial islands, 25 miles of causeway, and 13 bridges of the Manifa Heavy Crude Project. Manifa is the most recent major oil field opened by Saudi Aramco, and produces up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day.
Date: November 14, 2014
Source: www.planet.com
Valley Fields, China
Humans can transform rural landscapes as profoundly as urban ones. In this rugged quarter of Sichuan, fields (primarily rice paddies) cover the valley floors, and all but the steepest slopes are terraced to make room for more crops.
Date: April 15, 2015
Source: www.planet.com
Ocean-going Tanker, Australia
A tanker steams out of Botany Bay, just south of Sydney, Australia. At the time of image capture, the ship was oriented toward Los Angeles, California—across 7,500 miles of Pacific Ocean.
Date: December 14, 2014
Source: www.planet.com
Patterns
A pattern is a discernible regularity in the world or in a manmade design. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. Visual patterns in nature are often chaotic, never exactly repeating, and often involve fractals. Natural patterns include spirals, meanders, waves, cracks, and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection. Patterns have an underlying mathematical structure; indeed, mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern. Similarly in the sciences, theories explain and predict regularities in the world.
Kap Omega works with prediction of patterns in noisy, large scale datasets that directly or indirectly involves several branches of computer sciences and mathematics, but often also require inside knowledge of the nature of the problem at hand.