#DLR:
"
Europäischer Satellit ist der Biomasse unserer Wälder auf der Spur
"
"Am 29. April 2025 soll die ESA-Mission Biomass starten
.. eine präzise Bestimmung der Biomasse unserer Wälder ermöglichen.
Deutschland ist mit über 20 Prozent an der Mission beteiligt und stellt das Hauptinstrument. .."

https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/das-lungenvolumen-unserer-erde-vom-weltraum-aus-bestimmen

24.4.2025

Stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji — then rescued again days later after he returned to get his phone

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mount-fuji-climber-rescued-twice-returned-to-get-phone/

Wow, apparently my son commissioned a painting from a local artist (a classmate from high school). #art #SearchAndRescue #SAR

A puppy was found and rescued from the explosion site at the Port of Rajaei, Bandar Abbas / Iran

Santa Clara CERT Countywide exercise coming soon on May 3rd.

https://scc-cert.org/exercise-2025
if you are a CERT member you can register on the site for the county exercise

EO-Tools 2025.4.0 is out!

New in this release:
- Support for Sentinel-1C products!
- H-Alpha dual-pol decomposition from SLCs

Dive in: https://eo-tools.readthedocs.io
Code: https://github.com/odhondt/eo_tools

Wednesday, April 23 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-23-2025/

WRAL: Blue Ridge Parkway hiker’s death raises concerns over ranger staffing

A hiker’s death on the Blue Ridge Parkway is renewing concerns about trail safety and staffing as visitation climbs and the National Park Service faces budget and personnel cuts.

https://www.wral.com/news/state/blue-ridge-parkway-hiker-death-staffing-concerns-april-2025/

CalTopo: What’s Ahead for Search and Rescue Users

"...CalTopo’s origins date back to one of my first searches in 2009, and the mapping difficulties I encountered on it. While both the product and the company have taken a winding path from then to now, search and rescue has always been a core focus and it’s been a privilege to see our tools help redefine the standard of care in SAR, from remote planning to live tracking...."

https://blog.caltopo.com/2025/04/17/whats-ahead-for-search-and-rescue-users/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=2025-04-20

The Guardian: Social media and map apps blamed for record rise in mountain rescue callouts https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/record-high-british-mountain-rescue-callouts-social-media-map-apps

#introduction Hello all, Ive been on the fediverse on a number of accounts for about five years, finally it was time to make my own instance and decided on mastodon.

I mainly want to share photos I've taken over the years. I moved fully to #Linux about a year ago and its taken some time to settle and get to editing photos.

I am interested in #macro #aviation #streetphotography #pcbuild #birds #nature #bayarea #cert #sar #tech #Photo

any boost would be appreciated from my #selfhost instance

Neither the #DAR nor #SAR accept #Loyalists as ancestors. #MAGAts today are the Loyalists of #TheRevolution ! This makes every #MAGA DAR and SAR member a disgusting #HYPOCRITE and should be drummed out of the organization as traitors to #America! #Quislings every one! #Politics

Significant, generational and historic #flooding across the Ohio River Valley following multiple days of heavy rainfall and severe storms. You can see the extent of the flooding in the Sentinel-1 #SAR derived flood mapping I made in support of operations here. I have masked out normal water detection from previous Sentinel-1 images so I'm only highlighting the floods. Sentinel-1 Acquisition Relative Orbit 121 on 6 Apr 2025 @ 23Z https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/special/leaflet/2025/sar_fim_20250406/index.html?x=-9541745.41895&y=4663230.60059&z=8.90728&r=0&l=1111111

New @umbraspace #SAR imagery of Cape Canaveral provides us with an update on launch pads belonging to @relativityspace and @stoke_space.

Both pads have work underway for their vehicle hangars and clearly visible flame trenches.

Imagery: 2025-04-04 16:14:56 UTC

https://x.com/harry__stranger/status/1909010713261334659?s=46

Update on the Mediterranean Sea

In 2024, a record 8,938 refugees lost their lives, making it the deadliest year for displaced people worldwide, according to statistics published by #IOM.

The first quarter of 2025
- Italy has confirmed that the secret services used invasive military spyware Paragon #Graphite to monitor activists from Mediterranea Saving Humans and Refugees In Libya.

- Malta’s Prime Minister, Abela, said he will push to reform the European Convention on Human Rights, calling it "outdated", as he aims to simplify the deportation process for asylum seekers.

-The #EU Commission proposed the Common European System for Returns, a way to have faster deportations and "return hubs" in third countries, an indirect term for deportation centers.

- Mass graves containing the bodies of people on the move have been found in #Libya.

- The "State Trafficking Report” has exposed a human trafficking network involving #Tunisian police and military selling people on the move to armed Libyan groups and the Libyan army. All while Tunisia and Libya continue receiving European and Italian financial support.

383 missing or dead people have already been recorded in the Mediterranean in the first three months of 2025. Every single one of these deaths could have been prevented. Every single one has been accepted by the responsible politicians without turning a hair.

If a human life is no longer worth anything - what then?
Stand up for human rights for all! Stand in solidarity!

Open SAR data: Synthetic Aperture Radar (#SAR) is an interesting #remotesensing technology that captures high-resolution data of the Earth’s surface, regardless of weather or lighting conditions. This curated collection of open SAR data sources provides an...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-01-open-sar-data/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Hello Sentinel-1C

We have a new #Sentinle1 #SAR satellite delivering data. 1C has joined 1A in orbit and data is now available. Here is an IW mode image from this morning of #Iceland - VV polarization with logarithmic scaling (good for surface roughness). Images from #Copernicus Browser

In 2024, 106 people were accused of “facilitating irregular migration" - that’s nearly one arrest every three days.

We must dismantle policies that perpetuate violence and exploitation. Freedom of movement isn’t just a humane solution, it’s a political imperative!

#Bangkok #SAR #Thailand #earthquake > K9 USAR Thailand unit

A SAR team at the construction site has one K9 dog with handler and a medic.
11 dogs with handlers, divided into 3 shifts, 3-4 dogs per shift, with a working period of 8 hours per shift.

https://www.thaipbs.or.th/news/content/350738

#Thailand #earthquake > Heroes on four legs
BPD K9 Christina and BPD K9 Garmin searching for victims trapped in the collapsed high-rise building in #Bangkok for the second day amid temperatures exceeding 35 °C [95 °F]. They get a well-deserved break before resuming the search operation in the evening. Some caresses included ...