Overview: a new perspective of Earth

Overview. Venice

45°26′15′′N, 12°20′9′′E

Overview. Spanish greenhouses

Venice, Italy, is situated on 118 islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges. With tide waters expected to rise to perilous levels in the coming decades, the city has constructed 78 steel gates across the three inlets through which water from the Adriatic could surge into Venice’s lagoon. The panels – which weigh 300 tons and are 92ft wide and 65ft high – are fixed to massive concrete bases dug into the seabed © Daily Overview/ Digital Globe

Overview. Singapore tankers

36°50’25.0”N, 2°28’05.0”W

Overview. Pembrokeshire

Greenhouses in Almería, Spain. The structures in this region cover approximately 20,000 hectares of land (more than 75 square miles). The use of plastic covering, known as ‘plasticulture’, is designed to increase produce yield, increase produce size, and shorten growth time. For a sense of scale, this overview shows roughly six square miles © Daily Overview/ Digital Globe

Overview. Paris

1°14’15.6”N, 103°48’23.1”E

Overview. Shadegan Lagoon

Cargo ships and tankers outside of the entry to the Port of Singapore. The facility is the world’s second-busiest port in terms of total tonnage, shipping a fifth of the world’s cargo containers and half of the world’s annual supply of crude oil © Daily Overview/ Digital Globe

Overview. Mount Whaleback

52°00’52.2”N, 5°05’14.0”W

Overview. Barcelona

Pembrokeshire is a county in the south-west of Wales. The area is home to Pembrokeshire Coast national park, which includes a 186-mile walking trail known as the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. In the north of the county are the Preseli Hills, a swathe of high moorland with many prehistoric sites and the probable source of the bluestones that were used in the construction of Stonehenge in England ©Daily Overview/ Digital Globe

Overview. Mont St. Michel

48°51’09.8”N, 2°20’41.4”E

Overview. Dutch tulips

The street plan and distinctive appearance of central Paris, France is largely due to the vast public works program commissioned by Napoleon III and directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. Haussmann’s renovation of Paris included the demolition of crowded and unhealthy medieval neighbourhoods, and the building of broad, diagonal avenues, parks, sewers, fountains, and aqueducts © Daily Overview/ Digital Globe

Overview. Aircraft boneyard

Overview. Amsterdam

23°21’32.3”S, 119°40’40.1”E