200km Australian offshore mineral deposit
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Zooming in once more, this time the 27 screen shots are kept from the previous scale, as that was the most detailed amount of road data available. This new scale however prompts an exploration into how far one can zoom in with google earth satellite imagery. The remote boundary has changed again, and this time it is almost entirely made up of the ‘Red Dirt’ outline. The ‘emptiness’ between roads and flight paths expands as the vastness of the areas finally becomes some what comprehendible. No sites are recognisable, instead they are simply details found while panning the aerial images. Beginning with the previous ‘end of the road’ point of interest (05), I search for other points like these. These ‘end of the road’ details become the most dominant detail to pick up. Just one photo sphere now lies in the filed, and no street view is available. Where am I and what are these places? Have I hit ‘nothingness’ or am I still within reach of ‘something’? claiming land. Could this be another ‘fallout’?
Fallout: 9 tests worth of data represented as 9 individual layers: (Operation Buffalo - 4 tests: One Tree, Marcoo, Kite and Breakaway / Operation Antler - 3 tests: Tadje, Biak and Taranaki / Operation Mosaic 2 tests: G1 and G2)
‘Remote’ 27°56’17.2”S 129°49’32.6”E? Individual Zooming - Part 04 Perceived ‘remoteness’ Personal Point of interest British nuclear Test Site Google Earth ‘Photo Sphere’ ‘Way point’ - Aviation Nautical Chart ‘Way point’ + Individual 5 LetterIdentifying code ‘Flight Path’ - Aviation Nautical Chart Roads: Major, Secondary, Vehicle Tracks
‘Remote’ - ‘Red Dirt’ ‘Remote’ - 0-600m elevation ‘Remote’ - ‘Hot Desert’ ‘Remote’ - ‘Very Remote’
Largest amount of Accumulated Fallout Smallest amount of Accumulated Fallout ‘Plot of Personal Interest’ ‘Path of personal Interest’
‘End of the Road?’ Floating ‘Waypoint’ Point of Interest End of the Google Streetview Coverage
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Offerings to ideas of ‘remote’: The boundary of ‘remote’, now just a ‘red dirt’ expanse, becomes at once insignificant in the object sense but perhaps incredibly significant when it comes to exploring ideas of the remote. At this scale distance becomes some what comprehendible, but at the same time, un relatable. Nothing appears as familiar to me, except for the roads I am forced to search for a second time as I am forced to pan the zoomed in satellite at painfully short distances at a time to relocate the roads I wanted to revisit. I feel somewhat distanced from myself in terms of feeling in control of this process, yet the last point of interest continues to demand more attention in my imagination. A lot of the potential sites in this area do…
Zooming in once more, Positioning myself within the previous areas of interest. The ‘remote’ is the fourth time now redefined, and now a boundary made up of mostly ‘the red dirt’ as this became the inner most boundary of overlap out of all the layers used. The screen is set, the point at 27°56’17.2”S 129°49’32.6”E is centred. With the same _ screen shots needed to achieve the same level of road data as the previous scale, what was previously an overwhelming amount of new detail becomes more spacious, we have reached the limit in terms of road available road date. ‘Roads’ now include more unnamed tracks than those ‘major’ or ‘secondary’. Flight paths and their named points haven’t increased in complexity either. A once carved field now seems more mellow or calm as more breathing space emerges with the lack of new detail at this level of zoom. The layer of Fallout however has once again become more thickened. 9 layers, representing 9 separate nuclear tests undertaken on Australian territory now cover the ground. The amount of fallout (high) now almost consistent across the field. Entering in and out of ‘Street view’ is now no longer an option, and just one ‘photo sphere’ provides a virtual ‘on the ground’ experience of an unknown place. Details such as ‘the end of the road’ have carried on from the previous scale and can now be observed in more detail. From latest point of interest (04), the unusually shaped plot created by interesting tracks, a new and final point is added (05), Path 03 has emerged as a significant ‘end of the road’ as it ventures out into the great ‘negative’ space. A space defined by both paths on the ground and in the air space above. With points of interest 01 and 03 now out of the field, the remaining points triangulate and centre this final point. With more activity or information now lying to the top right; slightly higher fallout, the only photo sphere, a singular floating way point, and more informal paths, the less activity now falls to the bottom left. The new ‘end of the road’ detail falls interestingly in-between the two. From an ‘on the ground’ perspective this point suggests an idea of ‘nothing ness’ with no neighbouring road in sight, while from an above perspective this point can most likely be seen on a clear day out the aeroplane window. Ideas of nothingness and everything therefor seem to exist at the same time.
Areas of Interest: 01 - ‘Path’: Stuart Hwy 02 - ‘Plot’: The Leaning plot 03 - ‘Path’: 4 Lassester Hwy 04 - ‘Plot’: The Triangular Plot 05 - ‘Path’: The Unnamed road
Fallout: 9 tests worth of data represented as 9 individual layers: (Operation Buffalo - 4 tests: One Tree, Marcoo, Kite and Breakaway / Operation Antler - 3 tests: Tadje, Biak and Taranaki / Operation Mosaic 2 tests: G1 and G2)
‘Remote’ 27°56’17.2”S 129°49’32.6”E? Individual Zooming - Part 04
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