Strange Pixelized

I found this in GE.

Anyone knows what it is?

earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2f%40-29.47183852,-50.6073721,676.92776262a,149.81712824d,35y,356.22431251h,0t,0r




Strange Pixels.kmz (802 B)




Thanks!

Hi and welcome, These are quite common in GE, Reflection flares from a shiny surface.

Thanks and enjoy more discoveries .

Hi!

I know that place, is my house.

Theres no significant reflective material there.

It seems like it was edited after the image was took.

You can see some "lights", yellow and green under the white pixels.

Thank you!

Jun 4, 2019 18:00:56 GMT cespombo said:

...I know that place, is my house. Theres no significant reflective material there. ...

hi and welcome cespombo !
nice location you happen to live! 

well, there must not be "significant reflective" surface even does not have to be large to cause such imagery flares - as TL said its quite common on satellite imageries.

if you watch your home on GE App or GMaps, you only see most recent imagery -7/15/2018 in this case-, but if check it on GE-desktop, you can switch between alternative imagery dates.

by two dates, a bright(er) something (light coloured tiles on the terrace floor or some polycarbonate roof?) is visible, which is responsible for the flash-glitch:

3/20/2011:


9/3/2017:


this appears also on BingMaps -as you have already checked- (;
 

now only would you please take a photo of that bright surface and share with us here. - it would be rather instructive!

thanks!

g

Thank you syzygy,

In the recent image, under the white pixels theres a new house. The roof is all made of aluzinc material but is deep black and no bright. Do you think that surface could reflect that way?

Jun 7, 2019 22:20:20 GMT cespombo said:

...aluzinc material but is deep black and no bright. Do you think that surface could reflect that way?

absolutely! if that surface is flat and smooth enough, then yes. - just think of solar panels:

by spring, as sun goes still on lower path (on the northern hemisphere), this solar panel park reflects,


then -by summer- it does not reflect sunlight:

Yes, I agree that could reflect in some way, but what seems strange is that the shape of the brightness doesnt seems
in any case with the shape of the roof, and of anything around. The example you show of the solar panels is strictly
the same shape of the real material, in summer, and winter, with and without reflection.

I used to work with Fotogrametry and GIS. I worked for several years with cartography, satellite images...

I asked some Doctors, and proffessionals and they said that is strange. It seems like a post image edition. If you look pretty close
you can see.

hi cespombo !
my previous screenshots were not example for flares, only for that even black surfaces can appear bright on aerial or satellite imageries.

flares (on satellite imagery) nothing to do with original shape of the reflecting object, only it needs perfect perpendicular angle of the lightbeam which arrives back to satellite sensors more intense, than it could handle by processing and the result is a distorted, shapeless image error what appears on imagery.

think, I could dig up some proof for you:

similar looking glitch to yours from Vien:
flare Wien.kmz (807 B)
(note, flare occured at mid summer, right at noon as imaging satellite was at zenith so circumstances were ideal. - shape of flare is rather similar to yours, only it is upside down. - I am not sure whether the explanation for this could be that it is on the other hemisphere, or that the satellite moved the opposite direction. - also can be simple coincidence.)

closer view by different imagery date to show, what possibly caused the "flare" in this case:
flare source Wien.kmz (810 B)


now what you say? (:

hope I could convince you!

best!
g

I always hate it when that happens because it always confuses me on what it is.