This week for Throwback Thursday (#TBT) we’re setting our sites on the Brahmaputra River in India. We’re checking out the river around Assam and seeing how it shifts and changes over the years. This 1,800 mile long river begins as snowfall in the Himalayas and is a prime example of a braided river. As you can […]
Today for Throwback Thursday (#TBT) we’re checking out the Aral Sea, which is located in central Asia near Kazakhstan. This was one of the world’s largest saline lakes. In the 1960s that all began to change as rivers that fed the lake were diverted for Soviet irrigation projects to boost cotton production. Since then the […]
Here at SkyTruth we wanted to get on the Throwback Thursday (#TBT) bandwagon, and thought what better way than with a global Timelapse!? This Google-powered tool allows us to see composite Landsat images of anywhere on earth from 1984 – 2012. This amazing time-machine helps us better understand growth, change, development or destruction. Today we’re […]
Thanks to all of our FrackFinders– Project Dart Frog is complete! Many thanks to all of our volunteers for helping us get through this phase of the FrackFinder PA project. We had over 250 registered users power through 7,835 images to help us figure out if the ponds they saw in aerial imagery were related […]
As you may know, we’ve been working on Project FrackFinder–a multi-phase effort to map drilling and hydraulic fracturing using collaborative image analysis by citizen scientists like you. Not sure you want to sort through FrackFinder tasks on your own? Enlist some friends and host a FrackFinder-A-Thon! On February 28th, the Shepherd University Environmental Organization participated in the first […]