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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America
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doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000161 <-- shared paper
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[an older paper (2018) but a good one, including showing the versatility & usefulness of #FedScience spatial datasets]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #WestNile #WestNileVirus #fedscience #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NLCD #virus #publichealth #arboviruses #environment #data #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #geocoding #environmental #landcover #physiography #climate #weather #transmission #model #regressiontree #risk #hazard #riskmaps #elevation #humidity #rainfall #precipitation #disease #soil #integrated #opendata #mosquito #satellite #SouthDakota #pasturelands #crossdiscipline #virology #remotesensing #earthobservation #Pathobiology #Epidemiology
@USGS @USGS_EROS

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MediaFaro News Digest

ESA report warns of space debris and overcrowded orbit.

As the number of satellites increases, so does the amount of space debris in orbit, writes the European Space Agency in its latest the Space Environment Report 2025.

It warns that some orbits are becoming cramped and calls for the removal of space debris.

mediafaro.org/article/20250410

Distribution of space debris in orbit. | Image: ESA
Heise Online · ESA report warns of space debris and overcrowded orbit.By Werner Pluta
#Space#ESA#SpaceEnvironmentReport
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Le Monolecte 😷🤬🐧 :oc:

Besoin de vos conseils sur #canalplus.

Mon père surpaye son abonnement depuis des décennies en mode #Satellite seulement : il est super vieux (mon père) et n'a pas internet.

Là, suite à une panne d'alim, CanalSat lui a changé son terminal pour un qui ne fonctionne que si la carte est mise à jour via une connexion internet. Donc, ça ne marche plus.

C'est un motif suffisant de résiliation avec effet immédiat, sachant qu'il est captif d' « engagements » depuis des décennies. ?

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Spaceflight 🚀

#Amazon is under time pressure ⏱️. The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by 📆 July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 ⏳. More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launch

heise online · Amazon launches the first internet satellites for Project Kuiper next weekBy Frank Schräer
#Kuiper#ULA#Ariane6
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🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦

Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).

How does your work benefit from satellites?

I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another” 😄

Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game 😊
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)

Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard 😉)

#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Data In Action: The 2022 Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha′Apai Eruption - Altimetry Data And Models Help Us Understand How A Volcanic Eruption Generated A Tsunami
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podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/DataAction <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-016 <-- shared paper
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podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/JA <-- shared NASA dataset - Sentinel-6A MF Jason-CS L2 P4 Altimeter Low Resolution (LR) NTC Reduced Ocean Surface Topography F08
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthobservation #remotesensing #fedscience #tonga #HungaTonga #HungaHaApai #eruption #volcanic #volcano #Pacific #marine #geology #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #satellite #altimetry #data #model #model #spatialanalysis #Tsunami #risk #hazard #monitoring #coast #coastal #naturalhazard #Sentinel #sealevel #warning #earlywarning
@nasa

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CLondoner92 (New Account)

The #UK is set to become the first #European country to enable standard #smartphones to make satellite calls. Ofcom’s proposals will allow #mobile networks and #satellite operators to connect customers through space, benefiting people and businesses in remote areas. With 'direct-to-device' technology, satellites can send signals directly to smartphones, enabling calls, texts, and internet access where mobile coverage is unavailable. This technology could improve connectivity in rural areas, remote villages, mountains, and even provide back-up during outages. Ofcom is consulting on this plan, aiming for a roll-out as early as this year, potentially transforming coverage across the UK.
ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/space-an

Illustration depicting how a smartphone communicates with a satellite in space using a mobile frequency. The satellite then relays the signal on a satellite frequency to a gateway, which is a satellite dish. From the gateway, the signal travels through the mobile network to reach the internet or the mobile network of the person being contacted.
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Danie van der Merwe

First direct-to-satellite phone call in South Africa using a LEO satellite and unmodified mobile phones

“MTN South Africa and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite service company Lynk Global carried out a successful technical trial of one of the first satellite-to-mobile device phone calls in South Africa. The phone call, made in Vryburg, North West, allow ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/first-direct-t

Three individuals are gathered around a table, examining a portable device in a grassy outdoor setting, with trees in the background. On the table rests two mobile phones on stands, and one larger rectangular test instrument with an LCD screen.
GadgeteerZA · First direct-to-satellite phone call in South Africa using a LEO satellite and unmodified mobile phones“MTN South Africa and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite service company Lynk Global carried out a successful technical trial of one of the first
#satellite#southafrica#technology
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Thomas Lavergne

It's been a while, so time for a new #intro :

I am a scientist at the meteo institute of Norway (MET Norway). I live in #Oslo . I work on #satellite, #climate and #SeaIce, with various institutions like #ESA and #EUMETSAT.

The banner pic of my profile is an artist view of a satellite flying above our Earth. This is the European CIMR satellite that will fly in the early 2030s.

I am trying to be better at #OpenScience, #music, and #Bass / #BassGuitar .

I post in English, French, and Norwegian.

I am @lavergnetho on Loops too. 👋

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