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Historical Sites Through The Lens of Luca Campigotto

Using a large format camera, Luca Campigotto tackles the matter of historical sites around the world, from Easter Island to the Acropolis. Luca Campigotto was born in Venice in 1962, and divides his time between Milan and New York. After earning a master’s degree in modern history with a thesis on the era of great geographical discoveries, has specialized in the photography of landscapes and architecture, linked to the theme of travel.

You can see previous features of Campigotto’s work on ARCHatlas here + here.

Images of Earth from Space

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is an imaging instrument onboard Terra, the flagship satellite of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) launched in December 1999. Beginning April 1st 2016, all Earth imagery from a prolific Japanese remote sensing instrument operating aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft since late 1999 is now available to users everywhere at no cost.

Images from the top:

NYC

Baektu Mountain

Palm Jebel Ali, Palm Jumeirah and Palm Deira

Paris

Venice

Washington DC 

Alluvial Fan Taklimakan Desert

Netherlands Dikes 

Angkor Wat

Anti-Atlas Mountains

The public will have unlimited access to the complete 16-plus-year database for Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument, which images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER’s database currently consists of more than 2.95 million individual scenes. The content ranges from massive scars across the Oklahoma landscape from an EF-5 tornado and the devastating aftermath of flooding in Pakistan, to volcanic eruptions in Iceland and wildfires in California.