Investigating with satellite imagery

*Links and resources: www.bourgoing.com/satellite

Créez des dossiers dans Google Earth dans lequel vous sauvegarderez les positions exactes de chacun des éléments suivants

Man’s Footprint

  1. Aircraft graveyards in Arizona (3)
  2. Ship and giant oil tanker cemeteries in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (Baluchistan)
  3. The world’s largest car tire graveyard in the Kuwaiti desert
  4. Lithium evaporation basin in the Atacama desert
  5. Cattle feedlots (3) in Texas
  6. The farm with a thousand cows in France
  7. The Grand Renaissance Dam
  8. « The Universe » in the United Arab Emirates
  9. The construction of the Saudi city « The Line »
  10. Download high resolution images of the overcrowded slums of Kibera (Nairobi), Kisenyi (Kampala) and Kirkos (Addis Ababa)
  11. A geolocated file displaying all oil spills over the past decades
  12. Traces (e.g. landing strips) of illegal gold mining in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil

Climate change

  1. Places in Jakarta where rising waters are visible from space
  2. The site of the future Indonesian capital construction
  3. Vanishing or endangered lakes

Natural disasters

  1. The birth of the Hunga Tonga island (before and after images)
  2. In Chad, the main starting point for Sahara sand clouds landing in America and Europe
  3. The San Andreas Fault in western USA
  4. From this press article on the 2019 mega fires in Australia in the last days of 2019, create a visible light and infrared satellite image to highlight the burning areas (EO Browser – see tutorial below)

Wars and refugees

  1. In the South China Sea, the following reefs: Subi, Fiery Cross and Mischief
  2. The village of Dalori in Nigeria, scene of a Boko Haram massacre
  3. A geolocated file of refugee camps in Africa
  4. A geolocated file of Uyghur internment camps in Xinjiang
  5. Traces of recent fires in the Donbas (FIRMS)

Atmospheric events and air pollution

  1. Download a high-res picture of a Saharan dust cloud blowing over the Meditarranean sea from Tunisia on April 21, 2022 using Sentinel-3

Create animations (animated GIFs animé with ezgif.com, Google Earth Engine Timelapse, World Imagery Wayback or EO Browser) of the following events…

  1. the evolution over time of the Ouarzazate solar power plant (EO Browser)
  2. the recent appearance of a mysterious runway on an island in the Strait of Bab Al-Mandab (EO Browser)
    – also find all the latest information on this topic in the most relevant language(s)
    – download from EO Browser the most recent high resolution geolocated image (to display in Google Earth) of this location
    – create with Google Earth a KMZ file of this location with this recent image found previously using Sentinel 2
  1. the appearance of circular irrigated crops in the Wadi As-Sirhan region over the past 35 years (EO Browser)
  2. large-scale deforestation (with Google Earth Engine Timelapse) for …
    – palm oil cultivation in Indonesia
    – soybean cultivation in Brazil
  1. the Grand Renaissance Dam (EO Browser)

What important event took place…

    • here: 51°09’16.2″ North 2°34’53.8″ West ? When did it happen? Please illustrate.
    • here: 40°47’10.9″ North 119°12’24.0″ West ?When did it happen? Please illustrate.

Create a simple animation (before-after) showing the destruction by fire of the Dalori village in Nigeria in the course of an assault by Boko Haram

  1. using natural colours with Google Earth et Ezgif.com
  2. using infrared colours with the EO Browser

Create a very high resolution with Pierre Markuse’s script (mixing natural and infrared light) of…

  1. a megafire in California (EO Browser)
  2. a megafire in Siberia (EO Browser)
  3. a zombie fire in the Arctic (EO Browser)

Create an animation with radar images…

  1. of the ice shelf breaking into iceberg A74 in Antarctica (EO Browser)
  2. of floodings on the Pungwe river close to the city of Beira in Mozambique following the tropical cyclone Idai in March 2019 (EO Browser)