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Day 31 cont 
“Already these so-called #greenfield developments — houses built on previously #BareLand, just as the name suggests — are changing the #terrain of #Australia’s #cities.
The new #developments are easy to spot from the street, or the air, thanks to the sea of grey roof tiles.
Where once #ResidentialDevelopment was concentrated around #economic centres, now it’s #bulging outwards to an extent that the connection to city-living is tenuous at best.”
The barely mentioned issue that needs to be addressed, #population and #planning.
#AusPol / #cities / #land / #LandUse <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/federal-election-greenfield-developments/105216632>
Greg Cocks Landsat At Work – Better Wireless Communication - National Land Cover Database (NLCD), Based On Landsat, Helps Plan Clear Signal
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/news/landsat-work-a-path-better-wireless-communication <-- shared article
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https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions <-- shared about Landsat
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/annual-national-land-cover-database <-- shared about NLCD
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Landsat #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation #fedscience #usecase #USGS #EROS #cellphone #mobilephone #telecommunications #communications #cost #benefit #wireless #towers #antennas #landcover #landuse #NLCD #radio #frequency #siting #lineofsight #clutter #economics #risk #hazard #signal #signalquality #USA #value #returnoninvestment
@USGS @USGS_EROS
Launch mission successful accomplished
Congratulations to @esa & @CopernicusEU
[ ~12:15 CEST ]
Landslide Susceptibility Assessment In The Marin Khola Watershed Of The Sub Himalaya, Central Nepal
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https://doi.org/10.3126/jist.v30i1.76264 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #engineeringgeology #massmovement #landslides #Nepal #susceptibility #MarinKhola #watershed #InfoVal #Siwaliks #Himalayas #risk #hazard #cost #infrastructure #publicsafety #lossoflife #propertydamage #damage #geomorphology #water #hydrology #geomorphometry #casestudies #spatialanalysis #water #hydrology #factors #topography #geology #soil #landuse #landcover #model #modeling #accuracy
#corn #agriculture #LandUse #solar
'In a paper published April 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that putting solar facilities on just 3.2% of land currently used for corn-ethanol crops would increase the production of utility-scale solar energy from 3.9% to 13%. '
Modeling Future Land Cover And Water Quality Change In Minneapolis, MN, USA To Support Drinking Water Source Protection Decisions
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13109 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #landsat #fedscience #landuse #landcover #waterquality #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #NLCD #Minneapolis #MississippiR #water #hydrology #watersecurity #waterresources #nitrates #phosphorus #cyanotoxins #Minnesota #trees #agriculture #pesticides #fertiliser #farming #potable #runoff #farming #FORESCE #urbanisation #urban #headwater #watershed #planning #urbanplanning #management #nitrogencycle #soil #watertreatment #sediment
A Framework For Understanding The Effects Of Subsurface Agricultural Drainage On Downstream Flows
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https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20255023 <-- shared USGS publication
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#water #hydrology #mapping #framework #model #modeling #fedscience #streamflow #subsurface #soil #drainage #agriculture #farming #landuse #landcover #GIS #spatial #tiledrainage #drains #flow #waterresources #runoff #peakflow #evapotranspiration #precipitation #USA
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America’s loneliest Amtrak stations in FY 2023
Listed below are the 15 loneliest Amtrak stations across the country based on their number of passengers for fiscal year 2023. Nearly all of the places listed are in rural areas. The largest city on the list is New Iberia, Louisiana with just over 27,000 residents in 2023. Indiana and West Virginia both have three stations on the list while Montana and Louisiana have two each.
ScreenshotMost striking about this data, is that nearly half (47 percent) of the loneliest stations are along one Amtrak corridor — the Cardinal, which is a scenic arcing rail route which runs between Chicago-Indy-Cincinnati-Charlottesville-Washington DC-New York City! Why this is beyond the line traveling through many rural areas in the Appalachian Mountains and it being rather circuitous compared to more direct Chicago to New York rail routes is unclear.
The Cardinal Amtrak rail corridor – Source: amtrak.comSomewhat surprising are the numbers from Dyer, Indiana as well as Browning and Essex, Montana. Dyer is a suburb of Chicago, while Browning and Essex are located close to Glacier National Park. From the data, it appears most visitors to Glacier utilize the East and West Park Stations instead of nearby towns.
One town whose numbers are currently low, but likely had much highest tallies in the past is Rensselaer, Indiana. The town is home to the reopened St. Josephs College and once home of the Chicago Bears Training Camp. St. Joseph College closed down between 2017 and 2021 and is still rebuilding its academic programs. Meanwhile the Chicago Bears held their training camp at St. Joseph’s College from 1944 to 1974.
As the popularity of rail travel increases, hopefully additional passengers will choose to ride Amtrak to/from these lonelier stations. Regardless, for some of these towns, the train is the only intercity passenger service they have. For example, none of the three towns in West Virginia have current bus service from Trailways or Greyhound, nor do Browning and Essex in Montana. The same is true for Connersville, Schriever, Wishram, and Arcadia. That accounts for 60 percent of the list. As a result, the Amtrak provides a vital link for residents and businesses of these communities.
Peace!
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- Montgomery, West Virginia = 266 passengers
2. Alderson, West Virginia = 399 passengers
3. Thurmond, West Virginia = 466 passengers
4. Rensselaer, Indiana = 509 passengers
5. Connersville, Indiana = 528 passengers
6. Lordsburg, New Mexico = 688 passengers
7. South Shore, Kentucky = 870 passengers
8. Schriever, Louisiana = 912 passengers
9. Browning, Montana = 935 passengers
10. Dyer, Indiana = 989 passengers
11. Essex, Montana = 1,009 passengers
12. Wishram, Washington = 1,072 passengers
13. New Iberia, Louisiana = 1,078 passengers
14. Lamar, Colorado = 1,138 passengers
15. Arcadia, Missouri = 1,228 passengers
SOURCES:
Check out all the projects at Brighton and Hove Food Partnership
https://bhfood.org.uk/types/projects/
#Gardening #Herbs #Vegetables #Plants #LandUse #Compost #Composting #Cooking #Food #SolarPunkSunday #Community #Sustainability #Brighton #BrightonAndHove #UK
Why Brazil, a country with 12% of the world’s fresh water, faces a water crisis:
“But it is Brazil's role as an agribusiness powerhouse that threatens the nature that provides it with so much water.”
Climate change too of course. But rainforests and natural savannah preserve the water.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-brazil-faces-a-water-crisis/a-72243220
Folks in England, you can reply to the government consultation on land use. This is an important opportunity to advocate for rewilding, increasing transparency into land ownership, banning destructive practices like driven grouse shooting and burning moors, and more.
You can respond as an individual or on behalf of an organisation until April 25.
My responses, which you are free to use or adapt, are here: https://resilienceweb.org.uk/news/land-use-consultation
Systemic Drivers of Electric-Grid-Caused Catastrophic Wildfires - Implications for Resilience in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16010013 <-- shared paper
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#wildfire #electricgrid #ignitioncauses #wildfireprevention #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #risk #hazard #fire #wildfire #climatechange #Anthropocene #humanimpacts #infrastructure #massmovement #debrisflow #engineeringgeology #denudation #environment #ecosystems #ecology #loss #cost #economics #residential #waterquality #water #hydrology #electricty #energy #LahainaFire #CampFire #MarshallFire #SmokehouseCreek #fires #bushfire #vegetation #wind #weather #landuse #humanimpacts #utilitycompanies #utilities #resiliency
My thoughts on 'Neoliberal peri‐urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales' (Ren Hu & Nicholas J. Gill, 2022).
This paper includes a very thorough literary review and insights into the perceptions and experiences of Illawara dairy farmers as the region is urbanised.
The paper is perhaps worth a read if you are concerned with land-use issues in rural communities.
https://joesilver.micro.blog/2025/03/25/my-commentary-on-the-paper.html
What People Do
Lovely bit of dappled sunlight on the mountains. Scots Pines of the Caledonian Forest growing on the slopes. River trickling through a gorge.
Path intruding.
Disused quarry a gaping wound on the hillside.
Full of refuse - 10 oil tanks, a caravan, farm slurry tanker and a boat amongst other things.
A year ago, the quarry floor was also full of rainwater with oil-slick rainbows.
Prints etc: https://shiny.photo/photo/What-People-Do-4e1d0c5874ff8168311b45e4a87de394
As we talk about energy, we need to talk about a decrease in *overall* energy use—especially as so-called AI is a topic of conversation. Moving to renewables alone will not cut it. We also CANNOT afford to count on technology that might, eventually exist (e.g. meaningful carbon capture with some device or facility).
The time to take real action for ourselves was yesterday. Let’s push for it now
#agriculture #building #climate #construction #energy #landUse #transportation
(Edited: hashtags)
Local Food
Can public institutions procure food locally? How do land grabs impact local food movements? What are the local food discourses in Canada? What are the ethical considerations of eating locally?
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
New #OpenAccess research in JTLU: “How #bikesharing changed destination distance for its users: A case study of Chicago Metropolitan Area” by Shubhayan Ukil, University of Michigan, and Aditi Misra, University of Colorado, Denver.
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2597
The paper examines the impact of #Divvy shared bike services in the #Chicago metro region on trip distance of its users across all trips from 2008 and 2018, finding an 0.84km reduction in average trip distance among Divvy users when #bikeshare was available.
Recommendations include planning for shared bike services that are integrated with #transit in urban areas and promoting mixed land use so that users can choose proximate destinations in dense urban areas.
The next paper I'm reading is 'Neoliberal peri‐urban economies and the predicament of dairy
farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales' (Hu & Gill, 2022).
Feel free to follow along at home and look for my commentary in about a week or so.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10372-9
#Agriculture #UrbanPlanning #LandUse #Neolibralism #LandUseConflict #Dairy
“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber,
evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so
and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order