Blue Marble

This example demonstrates how to plot a flat PNG image with a known domain and coordinate system on an earthkit-plots Map.

[1]:
!wget -O blue-marble.jpg https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/74000/74167/world.200410.3x5400x2700.jpg
[2]:
import earthkit.plots as ekp

chart = ekp.Map(domain="Arctic")

chart.image("blue-marble.jpg", extent=(-180, 180, -90, 90))

chart.coastlines(color="white", linewidth=0.5)
chart.gridlines()
chart.borders(color="white")

chart.show()
../../../_images/examples_gallery_ancillary_blue-marble_3_0.png