June 24, 2016
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These days the new locks of the Panama Canal that will allow passage for significantly larger ships are going to be opened for regular use. As usual most image sources for OpenStreetMap are not quite up-to-date here, they generally show … Continue reading
May 31, 2014
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Yesterday the Sangeang Api in Indonesia started a major Eruption. Here a MODIS image from NASA worldview showing the large ash cloud which already extents over several hundered kilometers.
October 28, 2013
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Two days ago the Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, started erupting and there is a nice Landsat image available from that day: Interesting in case of volcanic activity is also the thermal infrared image which shows the hot areas and … Continue reading
October 12, 2013
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One difficulty of creating the Franz Josef Land map (see the previous post for the details) has been the constant change of the glaciers and ice caps that cover most of the islands. Like elsewhere in the Arctic glaciers are … Continue reading
December 1, 2012
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I worked a bit on the renderings of the sea ice coverage at the Views of the Earth and i think the results give a more pleasant impression. See for yourself on the Views of the Earth sea ice coverage … Continue reading