Google Earth Community: Data Problems Compendium, v 1043, 5 September 2008

Data Problems > Image Blemishes > Hairlines

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The great "Polar Umbrella". 26 April 2006

Lines along 180° east (or west). 26 April 2006; reported 13 April 2003

Non-existent oceanic trenches which girdle the globe. The central girdle is located at 0.025° North, and the others are at every 18° north and south of that latiutude. First noted 21 August 2005.

Satellite margin hairlines
Hairlines visible at about 500 meters altitude located about 1/2 kilometer from the edge of the satellite path, on the "right-hand side" of the direction of satellite travel.
---- Argentina, Cordoba
---- Brazil, Alvorada do Gurguéia
---- Canada, Juniper Station
---- Indonesia, Pulau Lagong
---- Iraq, Samarra
---- Kazakhstan , Caspian Sea
---- Korea, Incheon
---- Kuwait, Kuwait City and Funnayhill
---- Lebanon, Zahle
---- Malaysia, Merchang
---- Mexico, Isla Guanaja
---- Nicaragua, Lake Nicaragua
---- Russia, Lake Baikal
---- Saudi Arabia, Saffaniyah
---- Slovakia, Bratislava
---- South Africa, Henley-on-klip
---- South Korea, Chaju (Jeju) Island
---- Spain, Burriana
---- Thailand, Sungai Petani
---- UAE, Zhilinka
---- USA, New Orleans, Louisiana
---- Caracas, Venezuela
---- Western Sahara, Cabo Blanco

Australia
---- Sydney Opera House

Brazil
---- Santo Antônio do Arrozal 14 May 2007

China
---- Xinjiang hairlines & zig-zags 5 August 2006

Denmark
---- various locations

Egypt
---- Luxor

Germany:
----Bergsdorf, Braunschweig, Lengerich, Mühlenort, Neuenkirken, Schweinfurt, Seebeck, Spelle

Greece
---- Rhodes, could be filed under discoloration, 11 February 2007

Netherlands
---- Several locations throughout the southern half of the country. Interestingly, the hairlines on these images appear to have been acquired after the censorship was applied (see Eindhoven AFB).

UK: (reduced by the September 2006 London updates)
---- Isle of Grain, Thirsk
---- Egham, Huntingdon, Manchester, Windsor, Fixed March 2007

USA:
---- Albuquerque, New Mexico, Fixed December 2006
---- Austin, Texas
---- Connell, Washington, 7 April 2006
---- Honolulu, Hawaii, exhibits the normal thin white hairlines, and a unique path of thick "smushy" yellow lines18 January 2007
---- Hudson Valley, New York, Some fixed December 2006
---- Huntsville, Alabama
---- Los Angeles, offshore
---- Mobile, Alabama
---- New Port Ritchey, Florida, Fixed December 2006
---- Oceanside, California thick white line 5 November 2006
---- Shreveport, Louisiana

Edited by PriceCollins (01/11/08 01:21 PM)

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