When I was little I used to stare at one small plastic 3D map of my country. I just loved it.
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At 12 while watching TV I saw the amazing scientific journey of The Voyager Program. It took me to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune... That night I fell in love with our Solar System and decided to become an astronomer. I stаrted my own astronomy journal - a notebook with the most precious collection of interesting facts, data and pictures I was able to find.
2 years later I passed the exam and started school at the National Gymnasium of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Bulgaria, but I chose to study Geography as it felt more like girl thing. There I fell in love for the second time as once my class took part at a celebration called Day of Geographic Information Systems or GIS Day. All digital maps and spatial analysis you can imagine are made with such software and it's really awesome. Imagine Google Maps or OpenStreetMap - they are all GIS. 6 years later I started working at the exact same company that was organising the GIS Day.
Now I'm 30. I have a PhD in Remote Sensing and my job as a geographer is to study our planet from space.
Our world is beautiful from space! Encontro das Águas or The Meeting of Waters is the place where Rio Negro flows into the Amazon river near the city of Manaus, Brazil. For more than 6 km the waters of the two rivers run next to each other without mixing.
Agricultural areas always look like a carpet! This is part of Eastern Europe, captured by the satellite Sentinel-2, and the image is showed in falsecolor.
Can you guess what is that? Yes, it's the highest peak in the world in real color.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most amazing marine habitats worldwide.
Tokyo captured from 786 km (488 mi) altitude...
... and Mt Fuji, important part of Japanese Culture.
I must admit that as a geographer I had to learn a lot about map projections at the university. Well, I didn't loved them at all... But now as this is a topic that I have to teach my students about I decided to do something cool with it. I used the Bonne projection to create designs. It is a pseudoconical equal-area map projection, which means that parallels of latitude are visualized as concentric circular arcs and the meridians are forming beautiful curves that shape the Earth like heart.
Earth was a beautiful piece of art on the 4th of June 2017. This was the day my friends got married...
... and this is a square pillow that I made to celebrate their wedding.
I’ve worked for more than 10 years in different companies in the field of Geographic Information Systems and now I’m Assistant Professor in the same field of science. Every time I'm analyzing satellite images or just designing maps I just can't believe my eyes how beautiful our world is pictured from space. So I decided to use these patterns to create beautiful products. You can find them at www.pixmyplanet.com.
