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The vastness of the super typhoon Haiyan, Yolanda in Philippine local name, was all captured by space satellite sensors. The satellite images of Haiyan looks amazing from space with its whirling wind and detailed eye captured at landfall. Yet, this is same strong whirling wind that is reported to have…
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Here are the latest satellite images of the super typhoon Bopha aka Pablo that is currently making a landfall in the Philippines. The images were taken by the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument around 0435Z on December 3, 2012. I posted few useful links below if you want to…
Read moreLast night’s mass shooting inside a movie house in Aurora, Colorado left 12 people dead and 59 other injured. The horrific incident is now considered as the worst mass shooting in United States history with a total of 71 casualties! The perpetrator is 24-year-old James Holmes, a Ph.D. candidate in…
Read moreThanks to NASA for providing the latest satellite images of the Philippines, I was able to look into the damaged areas in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan caused by massive flooding, which was triggered by Tropical Storm Washi (known locally as Typhoon Sendong) on December 16, 2011. The Moderate Resolution…
Read moreNASA provided satellite images of Sendai, Japan before and after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit and devastated the region on March 11, 2011. The images vary in spatial resolution. One set of images came from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellite. MODIS…
Read moreMy little brother, Jeffrey, who works in Manila, was among the thousands of people affected by the tropical storm “Ondoy” (international codename: Ketsana) that hit the Philippines this weekend. After my sister (in Illinois) and I heard about the worsening situation in Manila due to flooding caused by the torrential…
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