January 2, 2022
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The volcanic eruption that strongly reshaped the island of La Palma since it began in September 2021 seems to have ended during the last days of the last year. Here is a before-after comparison based on Sentinel-2 image data comparing … Continue reading
May 18, 2020
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Yesterday 40 years ago in 1980 was the date of the first major volcanic eruption that was recorded by earth observation satellites. There is also imagery of the eruption itself but the more interesting images are those recorded before and … Continue reading
March 3, 2019
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I have not shown a lot of satellite images recently – for those who start missing them here a few winter impressions from the northern hemisphere from January and February this year. The first one is an early morning image … Continue reading
April 8, 2017
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Spring is coming again around here while winter is approaching on the southern hemsiphere. And as last year a few images from the Antarctic before the night and from the Arctic from the beginning of spring: The first one shows … Continue reading
February 15, 2016
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Ongoing volcanic eruptions are often well visible on satellite images due to the clouds of ash and steam emitted by the eruption. In Kamchatka during winter you can also usually well identify recently active volcanoes even after the eruption ended … Continue reading
February 15, 2015
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Since August last year there has been a major volcanic eruption on Iceland resulting in a large lava field that is still growing. Here is a Landsat image from this area from January 3: An image made from the same … Continue reading
January 1, 2015
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Happy New Year to all readers. Here is a mosaic of Landsat images from mid-end December of Kamchatka. I have produced winter mosaics from the area before but Kamchatka always provides new interesting features. In contrast to the previous mosaic … Continue reading
July 14, 2014
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On occasion of the solstice (yes, about three weeks late) here I have another Landsat satellite image of South Georgia with a lower sun position and some more clouds than the one shown previously. And complementary to this as well … 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.
February 18, 2014
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I showed a Landsat image of Kamchatka from mid winter with very low sun position in December. Now the sun is higher up again in the north and thanks to some good weather at the right time i was able … Continue reading