International news media reported that the Joshimath city in north India (Uttarakhand) was « sinking » due to a slow landslide. In January, many houses had developed major cracks on the walls and 145 families were temporarily moved. The Indian space agency published a map of the ground deformation obtained by SAR interferometry using Sentinel-1 data. Although […]
Alors que les bassines se développent en France pour stocker l’eau en particulier en Pays de la Loire, elles sont aussi utilisées au Maroc dans un environnement bien plus aride. Dans la région désertique entre Errachidia et Boudnib, près de la frontière algérienne, l’apparition de ces piscines géantes a transformé le paysage. L’eau est prélevée […]
Le manteau neigeux s’est constitué rapidement dans les Pyrénées suite à plusieurs chutes de neige abondantes entre le 23 novembre et le 10 décembre. Après ce début de saison tonitruant, la surface enneigée a rapidement décliné pour atteindre une valeur plutôt basse au début de l’année 2022. Cette fonte rapide est la conséquence des températures […]
Sentinel-2 captured an impressive view of the Fraser river sediment plume in Georgia Strait caused by the historic flood in British Columbia (250 mm rainfall in 48 hours). The image contains an amusing detail west off the Vancouver International Airport. This red-green-blue object is an airplane or « plainbow« . It is due to shifts between the […]
Update 17 June 2021: these images were used in a study published in Science by Shugar et al. (2021) A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya, doi:10.1126/science.abh4455. The Indian Space Agency (ISRO) activated the International Charter « Space and Major Disasters » to image the area of the disater in […]
In July 2018, the Pamir Times has reported that a lake formed due to a debris flow in the Ishkoman Valley, Pakistan. This event caused the destruction of dozens of housed in Badswat and Bilhanz villages. The flood debris running down the slope hit the mountain on the opposite side, and formed a barrier, blocking […]
I started to look at landslides in satellite images when I saw this tweet by @RemotePixel: July 11th 2016 Sentinel-2 Image over Glacier Bay, AK massive landslide! pic.twitter.com/pTnHQ7el8G — Remote Pixel (@RemotePixel) July 14, 2016 Like floods, landslides can be quickly identified using a before/after image comparison. In the case of the Glacier Bay landslide […]
The region of Sistan and Baluchestan was hit by very heavy rain causing widespread flooding near Chabahar city in southeastern Iran. Sentinel-2 captured the plume of sediments from rivers Bahu Kalat (Iran) and Dasht (Pakistan) in the Gwadar Bay, located in the Gulf of Oman on the maritime border of Pakistan and Iran. In […]
S. P. Hicks (@seismo_steve) wrote for Nature Geoscience a nice piece « Geoscience analysis on Twitter » where he shares his experience on using Twitter for the real time analysis of geohazards. Actively using Twitter for science may be perceived by some as a significant time-sink — the demands on individual researchers and their institutions at times […]