"State In A Year" Animation Tutorial from MichiganView

MichiganView has posted a number of useful tutorials on their website intended for AmericaView members.  The most recent one details the steps to creating a "State In A Year" animation - a *.gif composite of a year's worth of MODIS images.  Here's the animation from 2011:

MichiganView's tutorials range from an introduction to raster images to comprehensive guides to GDAL and Google Earth overlays.  Visit their resources page to view the full spread.