Sometimes the best shots require some extra work, like when New Zealand Googler Matthew Davison came up with the idea of taking a Street View Trekker inside an active volcano. Matthew and a team of explorers rappelled over 1,300 feet into the Marum crater in the South Pacific island nation...
(1)WHERE HALLOWEEN COSTUMERS GET BUSTED.I never thought of Halloween being celebrated in China. And if Shanghai cops have their way, it won’t be this year:“China’s Latest Security Target: Halloween Partygoers”in theNew York Times(behind a paywall). “Last year, the Shanghai governmen...
Oceania Map ⇡|Google Maps of Oceania ⇣|All countries in Oceania ⇣ The landscape of global sovereignty has dramatically shifted over the past several decades. From just 82 sovereign states in 1950, the number has surged to almost 200 today. This rise can largely be attributed to the fe...
Map references: Oceania National holiday: Australia Day , 26 January (1788); ANZAC Day (commemorated as the anniversary of the landing of troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I at Gallipoli , Turkey) , 25 April (1915) Nationality: noun: Australian(s) adjectiv...
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New Zealand. Cyclone Debbie. Cyclone Debbie caused major flooding across the eastern coast of Australia and parts of New Zealand. Last weekwe had a look at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australiausing Sentinel-2 imagery. Below we see some flooding around Edgecumbe, North Island, New Zealand. ...
Due to the natural conditions and inappropriate management responses, large part of plains and forests in Iran have been burned in recent years. Given the increasing availability of open-access satellite images and open-source software packages, we devel
A new metric for quantifying burn severity: The relativized burn ratio. Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 1827–1844. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Filipponi, F. Exploitation of sentinel-2 time series to map burned areas at the national level: A case study on the 2017 italy wildfires. Remote Sens. ...
This little "sub-sub-sub island" would never have received its strange distinction if not for careful trolling of Google Earth by map geeks around the world. In all likelihood, no human has ever actually set foot there. Boneyard at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona The boneyard (Im...
Historically, there hasn't been a country that missed to blame China for the ongoing cyber attacks hitting their networks.Germany in 2007, theU.K in 2007,France in 2007, andNew Zealand again in 2007all went public with allegations that China was responsible the cyber attacks hitting their net...