Up a Creek
Client: Discover Magazine
July 2005
Map illustration to accompany an article about an expedition down the Saganavirktok River in Alaska, mounted by a science writer and several climate experts, to observe the effects of global climate change.
I created these pieces by taking imagery for the region from several Landsat 7 wavelength bands, merging them to create a synthetic true-color image, and then draping the resulting composites over a three-dimensional USGS DEM terrain model.
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