Saturday, February 8 2025

Month: May 2017

Sri-Lanka floods captured by Sentinel-2

According to the latest news 150.000 people have been affected and more than 170 are dead, after torrential monsoon rains triggered devastating floods and tens of landslides in Sri Lanka’s southern regions of Matara. 

Detroit: reducing the noise speckle

This Sentinel-1 radar image takes us to the major city in the US state of Michigan, known for its Motown sound, rock music, world class museums, automobile culture, sports teams, arts, and theatres: Detroit. The image was created by mediating 21 radar scans from Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured from January 2016 to February 2017 for reducing

Lake Maracaibo: an announced environmental disaster.

With a surface of 13,210 km2 is the largest lake of Venezuela and South America. It is connected to the Gulf of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea by Tablazo Strait and fed by several rivers, the largest called Catatumbo. 

In Endeavour’s wake: course toward Madeira.

While Endeavour is sailing towards Madeira, where she did her first stop for more supplies, we take advantage of this easy navigation time to present the Vessel, the crew and the Captain with his double missions. Let’s sit in the deck and observe our main characters His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour As you can see, she uses

Arcipelago Vanuatu : Cyclone Donna

Severe Tropical Cyclone Donna is the strongest off-season South Pacific tropical cyclone on record during the month of May and it has been upgraded to a category five storm, the most destructive wind-speed level. Cyclone Donna increase the category from 4/5/2017 to 9/5/2017 (https://earth.nullschool.net) The cyclone is in north of archipelago Vanuatu located in the South

Great Coral Barrier Bleaching after Cyclone Debbie

After the passage of Cyclone Debbie over East Australia, a massive bleaching event over the Great Coral Barrier has been remotely observed from Satellite images. The same event is being assessed by in-situ measurements which seem confirming the severe event.

Walking into the Sea

  The Earth and the Moon behave as single system, rotating about a common center of mass. The main consequence of the eccentric motion about the Earth-Moon center of mass is the movement of the largest water bodies creating a high and low tide. This phenomenon is particularly visible in the northern coast of the