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SkyTruth Alerts
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Photo of pipeline explosion, Center Township, PA, taken 2 April 2019. Provided by FracTracker Alliance
SkyTruth Alerts is now SkyTruth Monitor. View the How-To Guide.
June 2023
- New “What’s New” banner
- Drag-and-drop has these new features:
- Ability to set color and opacity
- Ability to save layer in the “My Layers” category
- Layers tab has these updates:
- Search feature
- Ability to “pin” favorites to the top
- Ability to select a color for most layers
May 2023
- New Zoom-To features for many layers.
- New Dynamic World time series.
- Faster method for showing Project Inambari mining detections.
- Creation of Public Maps archive.
- New public map: Willow Oil Project.
- New layers: Bathymetry; National Conservation Easements; FracTracker
- Many small improvements/fixes
March 2023
- Re-wrote access to Planet imagery. General users will now only have access to NICFI basemaps.
- Dynamic World: Since Planet basemaps are not always available, replaced the Dynamic World Planet basemaps with Sentinel-2 mosaics for showing what’s on the ground.
- Added NAIP imagery layer; Fixed Impact Observatory layer; Made TROPOMI Methane into a layer available under International layers.
- Lots of smaller improvements/fixes.
February 2023
- New Dynamic World tab is ready
- Context-sensitive help – applied to each tab in sidebar
- New features to show proof of concept on a new MarineProtectedAreas map. Filters WDPA for “Marine Protected Areas” and lets you double-click an MPA to see meta-data; uses GFW API to view fishing events.
- A couple of key changes to make things faster.
- New map with US Orphaned Wells
January 2023
- Mouse-over scene footprints show for Planet, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat
- Gamma (contrast) available for Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat
- Option to remove the red outline on Cerulean slicks
- New Social Media Mode (checkbox in the burger menu) can be used to create better screen captures (no map controls, larger attributions, etc.)
- New “Map Inset” option – works well in 80% of cases.
- Smoother satellite image viewing.
November 2022
- Dynamic World: Blog post, how-to guide.
- Faster serving Planet imagery
- Custom maps: Kapinga kaMwali conservancy, Baltic pipeline leak, Hurricane Ian, Cerulean in the North Sea.
- New layers & imagery: PALSAR-2, Pipeline Routes from Oil & Gas Watch
May 2022
- Added ESA World Land Cover dataset.
- Added CSV to drag-and-drop.
April 2022
- Implemented Dynamic World’s Land Cover classification of Sentinel-2.
- Implemented a new “Alert Details” sidebar, which allows you to see the details and also use the other sidebars such as viewing satellite imagery.
- Added a way to reduce the number of unwanted images when searching for imagery. Uses a slider-controlled rectangle that makes the search bounding box smaller or larger.
- Added a “Combine Scenes” option that lets you stitch together multiple planet images.
- Added “Combine Scenes” feature for Planet Daily imagery.
- EOG is allowing us to share monthly summary data, so made this available in Alerts. Wrote a blog post.
- Update registration process so that new users have to verify that they own the email they use to sign up.
January 2022
- Added Oceanic EEZ’s as one of the predefined lists so that users can subscribe to.
November 2021
- New GLAD-S2 and RADD layers, each can be filtered by date.
- Added Planet daily imagery.
- Redid UI to take pop-ups off map.
- Redid how Compare Maps work so they’re more intuitive/versatile.
- Inambari enhancements: Add UTM coordinates
October 2021
- Colorado Watershed map and blog post updates
September 2021
- Many UI changes to frontend
- Colorado Watershed maps
- Several new layers in Alerts
- Added ability to render maps derived from NICFI Surface Reflectance Basemaps (6 total options, including NDVI)
- Map comparisons can now include layers as well as satellite images
July 2021
- UI tweaks:
- Show timestamp and image ID on mousing over the image label;
- Remove map marker when closing alert details view;
- Use selected satellite image as basemap;
- Popup window positions/styling;
- Bug fixes, including: same NRC alerts going out more than once; major bug with html2canvas screen capture; many minor bug fixes and UI upgrades.
- Extended “Save” features to give users all the same options that ST staff have.
- Custom Alerts ready for Inambari.
- New public map: Pipeline Incidents in US
June 2021
- Build organization-wide access
- New public map: Vessels of Concern
- Layer can be played on a timeline if there’s a date attribute
- New feature: Click on map to see elevation
May 2021
- New Layers: Earthquakes
- Created option to put layer data on a timeline when there is a datestamp available
- Seamounts Map (salmon runs in Alaska)
- Fix PA DEP bug that tags vertical wells as fracking
- Fixed NM and WV scrapers
- Cerulean: Go directly to S1 image when slick clicked
April 2021
- Added Opacity slider on all satellite imagery and on some layers.
- Created the 1st layer that you can filter: Forest Loss (by year).
- Expanded Drag N’ Drop to include shape files, zipped up shape files, KML files.
January 2021
- There’s a new Pennsylvania Violations online program as of 1st of year.
- Started taking Sentinel imagery from EE instead of Sentinel-hub.
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