The Musaicum East Africa

Today i introduce another important milestone in my Musaicum satellite image mosaic series – the Musaicum East Africa. The Musaicum images are a series of regional satellite image mosaics based on Sentinel-2 data started in 2023 that are produced to a high quality standard. They offer unsurpassed quality in visual color depiction of Earth at this resolution range (10m) with a high degree of color consistency and an exceptionally low incidence of clouds. After previous mosaics of Europe, West Asia, the United States and East Asia as well as coverage of various islands (including – most recently – Greenland) this is the fifth large area image and the first one covering regions of the inner tropics. The Musaicum East Africa Regions of permanently wet tropical climate are notoriously hard for satellite image mosaic production due to persistent clouds. East Africa has only very small parts with such climate, most significantly at the western side of the Rwenzori mountains. To ensure the…