Satellite Images of Human Presence on our Earth

Major road and rail networks in Europe, along with transmission line and underwater cable data, superimposed over satellite images of cities illuminated at night.

 Felix is the founder and director of Globaia, an organisation that seeks to enhance awareness of the impact and role of the human race on our world.

He has spent 13 years researching and presenting his theories to students, fellow academics and the general public.

"During this time I have been designing and presenting conferences on the global issues of our time," said Felix.

"I believe a picture is worth a thousand words, so I slowly started to improve my design skills to be able to show what I was explaining."

 "These pictures show several sides of global human activities," said 34-year-old Felix, from Montreal, Canada.

"We see everything from paved and unpaved roads, light pollution, railways, electricity transmission lines.

All the way to submarine cables, pipelines, shipping lanes and air traffic.

The show the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is."

Felix used US government sources like the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Oceanic for railways, pipelines and roads as well as the Atmospheric Administration for the air traffic to piece together the visualisations.

Felix's visualisations showing how human technology has taken over our crowded planet come just one week before the global population is set to top seven billion.

The United Nations Populations Fund has revealed that by October 31st, there will be an extra billion people on the Earth compared to 1999.

Picture Credits: Felix Pharand-Deschenes / SPL/ Barcroft Media