{"id":2548,"date":"2011-01-25T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2011-01-25T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:21:42","slug":"first-satellite-images-of-the-brazil-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/01\/25\/first-satellite-images-of-the-brazil-landslides\/","title":{"rendered":"First satellite images of the Brazil landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obtaining decent satellite\u00a0imagery of the devastating<\/a>\u00a0Brazil landslide disaster <\/a>has proven to be exceptionally difficult due to the presence of clouds across the affected area.\u00a0 This is probably the reason why the Disaster Charter activation <\/a>has yet to yield any imagery.\u00a0 However, NASA has managed to collect an ASTER image of the affected area\u00a0(hat-tip to\u00a0Dalia Kirchbaum for highlighting this to me) and has now posted the image online<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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The image is of course a false colour composite, meaning that vegetation shows up as red and bare soil as a turquoise or brown colour.\u00a0 It is this contrast that\u00a0allows the landslides to be seen.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the resolution of ASTER is quite low, but the presence of many fresh landslides is clear:<\/p>\n

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Some of the areas of landslides certainly look both interesting and intense:<\/p>\n

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Hopefully, some technical information will start to emerge about these slides in the next few days.\u00a0 I am left wondering why the landslide community does not have the equivalent of the EERI reconnaissance reports<\/a> to affected areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obtaining decent satellite\u00a0imagery of the devastating\u00a0Brazil landslide disaster has proven to be exceptionally difficult due to the presence of clouds across the affected area.\u00a0 This is probably the reason why the Disaster Charter activation has yet to yield any imagery.\u00a0 However, NASA has managed to collect an ASTER image of the affected area\u00a0(hat-tip to\u00a0Dalia Kirchbaum for highlighting this to me) and has now posted the image online.\u00a0 \u00a0 The image …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,959,25],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brazil","tag-landslide-report","tag-satellite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}