15 January 2009
Guatemala landslide – new satellite image
Posted by Dave Petley
The Advanced Land Imager instrument of the NASA Earth Observation satellite EO-1 has recently collected an image of the Guatemalan landslide, which they have made available online. The image is here. I have cropped it to show just the slide – it is quite useful:
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Dave-The article in Dave’s Landslide Blog on the Guatemalan landslide was interesting. A fellow geologist in San Diego, who brought your blog site to my attention, is studying a similar landslide in the Sierra Nevada.Gregory T. Farrand, CEGEngineering GeologistSan Diego, CA