A ‘Waylaid' Teaching Diorama – USGS “Geology For Land Use”
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For about 3 years, this gorgeous diorama has ‘just’ been sitting in a corner of a (common) hallway.
I can’t help but wonder its history:
• What prompted its creation?
• Who was the artisan (truly!) that created it and used those components and focus?
• When was it created? (late 1960s as an educated guess????)
• Why was it seen as useful / in what setting? (as I am sure it was)
• How was it funded?
(never mind that I want to claim it for my office, space notwithstanding…)
#geology #landuse #trainingaid #education #diorama #oldschool #fedscience #fedservice #education #technical #professional #spatial #landform #geomorphology #usecase #appliedscience #geoscience #USGS
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Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

Fire Event Explorer [NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/tools/fire-event-explorer <-- shared NASA mapping resource
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“This tool visualizes near real-time (NRT) satellite-based fire perimeters, active portions of fire perimeters (fire lines), and active fire pixel detections for the current year.
Use the bottom panel to select different date ranges or subset fires by size, duration, or intensity. Click on an individual fire to visualize the time series of fire growth every 12 hours and create video outputs in GIF or WebM formats.
These fire tracking data are from the Fire Event Data Suite (FEDS) algorithm. Find out more:
• FEDS data source documentation
• OpenVEDA documentation
• Earthdata VEDA dashboard..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #VEDA #nearrealtime #satellite #remotesensing #fire #wildfire #extremeweather #perimeter #download #detection #monitoring #FireEventExplorer #FEDS #NRT #OpenVEDA #earthdata #VIIRS #landform #opendata #fedscience #fedservice #risk #hazard #infrastructre #NASA
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1906, The First Aerial Photo Of Any Archaeological Monument In Britain [Stonehenge] – [The start of] Aerial Survey For Archaeology
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https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/first-world-war-aerodrome/ <-- shared #EnglishHeritage web page
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https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0031-868X.2003.00023.x <-- shared paper
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[A specific example, but how far we have come in just over 100 years!!]
#mapping #spatial #NationalMappingProgramme #photogrammetry #UK #Britain #England #history #remotesensing #stonehenge #archaeology #site #aerialimage # military #balloon #survey #photograph #research #history #BronzeAge #landscape #landform #technology
Geographic Squadron Royal Engineers | English Heritage
Permafrost Formation In A Meandering River Floodplain
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001175 <-- shared paper
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“... KEY POINTS:
• River meandering resets permafrost development and vegetation succession by eroding old floodplain areas and depositing new land
• On the Koyukuk River, permafrost rapidly forms in new deposits, but it takes over 4 Kyr to develop to its full areal extent of 85%
• The rate of permafrost formation is likely linked to vegetation succession on younger and overbank deposition on older floodplain areas…”
#water #hydrology #permafrost #development #research #Alaska #river #stream #watercourse #channel #meandering #vegetation #spatialanalysis #erosion #floodplain #overbank #deposition #sedimentation #KoyukukRiver #riverdynamics #climate #climatechange #Arctic #environment #landform #geomorphology #dating #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #network #GIS #spatial #mapping