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Sunday, 26 March 2017

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Using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) for Detection of Burned Areas

Digital Geography [22:20:20]

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Google Earth Engine ( GEE ) is a cloud platform for processing satellite imageries. This service includes images of Landsat 5, 7,8, Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2. You can process them directly on Google servers and don’t need download the images. This opportunity does processing of satellite imageries faster then on a limited desktop PC. However, you should have programming skills, because this is based on JavaScript code and the Google Earth Engine API. Examples of GEE A great example of using [...]

Trumpy Oklahoma earthquake season really starts

Ontario-geofish [21:14:00]

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An 'official' m4 that I'm calling an m5 because of severe directivity. That is, the seismometers in the direction of the strike-slip pulse recorded it as a 5. I'm always going with this higher number because that is what will count when there are big ones. For example, an m6 can take down buildings that are in the pulse zone, whereas something much bigger is required to take down

Strong earthquake swarm 80 km north of Kolbeinsey Island

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [20:03:35]

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During the night of 26-March-2017 there was an strong earthquake swarm about 80 km north of Kolbeinsey Island. This is around 250 km from the coast in north Iceland. It is not clear what is happening in this [...]

<i>Flat Earth</i>: An Astonishingly Good Book about a Very Bad Idea

Rosetta Stones [03:00:00]

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Shaquille O'Neal should definitely read this -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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drip | david’s really interesting pages... [18:03:39]

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Look Up and Say Hello to Altocumulus Asperitus and Cirrus Homogenitus

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:54:11]

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It was Luke Howard, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who first gave us the cloud names like cirrus, stratus, and cumulus (that we still use today), and that was way back in 1802! This is important because to [...]