Latest Environmental Content The Zavaritskogo volcano
2025/01/18
The Zavaritskogo volcano (also called Zavaritskii) is a striking feature on Simushir Island, in the middle of the Kuril Islands archipelago. It is made up of nested, steep-walled calderas surrounding a central lake (Midori Lake). This fascinating image was captured by Imager) on Landsat 8 satellite on September 12, 2024. Humans very sparsely populate these islands.
Toshka Project - Egypt
2025/01/18
The New Valley Project or Toshka Project - I accidentally found this 2025 MODIS image of Egypt, which shows an amazing greenery project in the Sahara desert west of the Nile River. I checked historical images of the same location and found that the Toshka Lakes region is a major agricultural development project in Egypt. However, the region had very few green patches 10 years back (2014 image) with the dry conditions of the lake system. Within 10 years, Egypt's New Valley Project has had a tremendous improvement, as you see in the 2025 MODIS image. This is a suitable topic for remote sensing for the undergraduate-level project. There are enough historical cloud-free MODIS images available from NASA.
Los Angeles Wildfire Disaster
2025/01/10
The Los Angeles Forest fire became one of the most disastrous wildfires in the history of the UN. This image shows fire spots and massive smoke recorded by MODIS satellite on 9th Jan 2025.
Victoria Bushfire from Space
2025/01/04
A large forest area in Grampians National Park in western Victoria has been burnt out by bushfire, which started in the last week of December. 2026. The impact on human life is limited, and according to ABC News Australia, about four houses have been lost due to the fire. However, significant damage to the forest park can be presented by the latest MODIS satellite image, acquired on 1st Jan 2025. As you can see in the 1st Jan image, the eastern half of the forest park shows the burnt-out area in a brownish colour.
Hurricane Milton Hits Florida
2024/10/10
One of the largest hurricanes in recent times has hit Florida, forcing millions of people to evacuate. More than 2 million are without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida, causing deaths and flooding in the region. Before Milton even made landfall, tornadoes were touching down across the state. The Spanish Lakes Country Club near Fort Pierce, on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, was hit particularly hard, with homes destroyed and some residents killed. However, the severity of the hurricane dropped with the landfall. Due to the scale of Milton, widespread floods can be expected. Check the SeeSatView app for an image of Hurricane Milton.
Carbon Monoxide
2024/09/10
Carbon monoxide is one of the substances that the NPI (National Pollutant Inventory) tracks across Australia. Here are some fascinating facts about carbon monoxide and some hints on how you can help minimise any harmful effects of carbon monoxide on our health and on the environment. Carbon monoxide can occur naturally in the environment. It is released into the atmosphere by volcanoes as they erupt, from the smoke of forest fires, from the natural gases in coal mines, and even from lightning. Other natural sources of carbon monoxide are marsh gases, which are also called methane and produced by plants decomposing underwater, marine algae, kelp and seed germination growth. However, carbon monoxide is a dangerous, poisonous substance if people are exposed to it in high quantities. Source: https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Libya flood disaster
2023/09/16
Storm Daniel, became the deadliest and costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone ever recorded since Cyclone Nargis in 2008. In Derna, a northern coastal city of Libya, at least 10,000 people were confirmed dead after the Derna and Mansour dams collapsed, releasing millions of cubic metres of water and destroying a large part of Derna city. Images show a calm Mediterranean Sea on Sept 7th and the same region on Sept 13th after the storm hit. The turbidity in seawater by the flood is visible in the Sept 13th image. Check SeeSatView app for an image of Storm Daniel.
Morocco Earthquake
2023/09/08
On 8 September 2023 a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck Morocco at 18.5 km depth. The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh. Marrakesh, with a population of 840,000 inhabitants is most impacted city. According to media, severe structural damage with over 2,900 deaths were reported. The map shows the epicentre and the severity of the impact by various colour lines.
Lake Sylvester a lake again...!
2023/03/16
Lake Sylvester in Nothern Territory, Australia, was almost dry due to prolonged below-average rainfall in recent years. However, the region is green, and the lake has formed again after heavy rain in the last few months. Download and see these images in SeeSatView App (Educational and Free), which runs by Geoguardian.com. In SeeSatView, you can check surrounding information using the Google mapping platform.
M 7.6 Earthquake hits Indonesia
2023/01/10
A powerful M 7.6 earthquake has struck near Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia, about 500km north to Darvin, Australia. Tremors felt in Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia, and other surrounding islands. There was no warning for tsunami, from the earthquake, which was recorded 105km below the Banda Sea. If an earthquake of this magnitude hits closer to the ocean bed, a massive risk of tsunami can be expected.
Snow in NSW, Australia
2021/06/10
This satellite image of the snow in New South Wales was captured on June 4, 2015, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 (image credit: NASA). During this cold snap, metropolitan Sydney reached a maximum of 10.3 degrees on June 10, making it the coldest day overall since 1984.
Bushfire in Australia - 2
2019/11/10
This MODIS image content shows bushfire at the devastating level in NSW, Australia.
Bushfire in Australia - 1
2019/11/06
This MODIS image content shows bushfire at an early stage in NSW, Australia.
Monitoring Rain volume from MODIS satellite products
2018/07/05
The torrential rains hit Japan causing devastating floods in various regions of Japan. According to the government records, at least 155 people killed in the floods and related landslides. More than two million people were evacuated during the disaster. The images in this content shows two image products acquired from the MODIS system on 5th July, 2018. The left image shows the massive cloud formation which has fully covered Japan. The right image is from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, is a facility instrument whose goal is to support climate research and improve weather forecasting. AIRS is mounted on NASA’s Aqua satellite (one of the satellites in MODIS system) launched into Earth orbit on May 4, 2002. AIRS image clearly shows the day and night precipitation volume over Japan. AIRS products have a very high potential to support weather forecasting in regions where not extensive ground observations are available.
