NOAA 19 giving ample evidence for why it's so windy today, 11.09am.

Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000161 <-- shared paper
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[an older paper (2018) but a good one, including showing the versatility & usefulness of #FedScience spatial datasets]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #WestNile #WestNileVirus #fedscience #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NLCD #virus #publichealth #arboviruses #environment #data #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #geocoding #environmental #landcover #physiography #climate #weather #transmission #model #regressiontree #risk #hazard #riskmaps #elevation #humidity #rainfall #precipitation #disease #soil #integrated #opendata #mosquito #satellite #SouthDakota #pasturelands #crossdiscipline #virology #remotesensing #earthobservation #Pathobiology #Epidemiology
@USGS @USGS_EROS

Two nocturnes - NOAA 18 and NOAA 19, near concurrent websdr recordings from the 25 meter radio telescope near Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

A new UK system to protect satellites against attack shows how global conflict has spilled into outer space.

The UK government has announced £65 million in funding for a new software system called Borealis which is intended to help the UK military defend its satellites against threats.

The Borealis system collates and processes data to strengthen the UK military’s ability to monitor what’s going on in space.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250414-a-new-uk-system-to-protect-satellites-against-attack-shows-how-global-conflict-has-spilled-into-outer-space?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

The west's failure to even try to stop #Putin is ramping #NorthKorea's #war machine to never before seen level.

#Europeans must step up to stop Putin now or real global war is unavoidable.

#Satellite images show what could be North Korea’s biggest #warship ever.

“The #FFG is approximately 140 meters (459 feet) long, making it the largest warship manufactured in North Korea. North Korea’s navy has about 400 patrol combatants and 70 submarines.”

You know what would be super cool? Going to the VLA open house in Socorro NM two weeks from now and making some #hamradio #satellite contacts from there! It's not going to happen for me this year but I'll keep that in mind for the future.

A contest on #hamradio #satellite AO-7, wobbly as it is even without stations pumping too much power on the uplink, what could possibly go wrong with this idea?

A new TLE set has been generated for Orbicraft-Zorkiy by the @satnogs Community. The #satellite will be re-entering soon.
For more updates, check: https://community.libre.space/t/rs15s-orbicraft-zorkiy-farwell-diploma/13002/23

ESA report warns of space debris and overcrowded orbit.

As the number of satellites increases, so does the amount of space debris in orbit, writes the European Space Agency in its latest the Space Environment Report 2025.

It warns that some orbits are becoming cramped and calls for the removal of space debris.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250410-esa-report-warns-of-space-debris-and-overcrowded-orbit?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

https://www.europesays.com/fr/15043/ Eutelsat, une alternative crédible à Starlink en Ukraine? – rts.ch #Actualités #AideMilitaire #Économie #ÉconomieEtFinances #ETL #EU #europe #GuerreEnUkraine #InformatiqueEtTélécommunications #internet #News #Satellite #Satellites #Starlink #Ukraine

"Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests"

#Satellite #Trees #CarbonDioxide

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/05/space-probe-to-map-carbon-content-of-worlds-remotest-tropical-forests