#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
While boat drivers are labeled and criminalised as smugglers, the real traffickers, like Libyan warlord and torturer Gheniwa, who came to #Italy not long ago unscathed, or Almasri before him, remain untouched.
No one who had to pass through #Lybia and its prisons to cross the #CentralMed can deny having been subjected to systematic violence, torture, sexual harassment and rape.
How can the Italian government equate captains and the people who actually are on the boats with those who profit from their suffering like Gheniwa and Almasri? The latter take flights, sometimes state owned, their entry is accepted and their health is taken care of.
We ultimately need safe escape routes and human rights for all. Human trafficking and the criminalization of people on the move must finally be brought to an end.
#HumanRights #SAR #FreedomOfMovement
Photo2: GettyImages, 3 ANSA
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.
#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 ...
A ham radio amateur here locally apparently fell off a trail and broke his femur (from our local radio net)
Phone did not work (out of battery or out of service).
Garmin Inreach was not charged (out of battery)
Handheld radio with GPS worked, so he was able to call out for help on 146.520 and was rescued. 
March 23rd.
Yesterday evening, there was a lot of excitement as a helicopter landed right next door.
The rescue helicopter was deployed due to a major traffic accident. Since it wasn't possible to land at the road intersection where the accident occurred, the pilot diverted to a nearby small meadow.
#Helicopter #DRF #SAR #Luftrettung #DHRTF #CHX49 #Bestensee
#LifeSupport: 35 Menschen, die am Montag in internationalen Gewässern in der sog. 'libyschen #SAR Zone' gerettet worden waren, konnten gestern Abend in #LaSpezia endlich an Land gehen. Die meisten von ihnen waren vor dem Krieg in #Sudan geflohen.
@emergency PM
https://www.emergency.it/comunicati-stampa/life-support-sbarcati-a-la-spezia-i-35-naufraghi-soccorsi-in-acque-internazionali-della-zona-sar-libica/
Strahlung ist überall, sie umgibt uns immer. An manchen Orten allerdings mehr als an anderen. Wie sieht es zum Beispiel auf einem Marktplatz aus? Vicky und Tim sind in der Stadt unterwegs und erklären uns, was für Strahlung ihnen begegnet und wo es Risiken gibt - und wo nicht.
Well, that's definitely a lesson to keep in mind if you are e-biking in remote areas....
"According to the group, a female biker faced major complications after her e-bike battery died in a remote area. This resulted in the woman being stranded in the desert for 30 hours, pushing her bike 20 miles before she ended up being located and rescued deep in the park."
NASA-ISRO Mission Will Map Farmland From Planting to Harvest. The NASA-ISRO SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite will be launched soon and acquire radar over the entire land area of the Earth (except a few places near the poles). One objective is mapping agriculture. #NASA #ISRO #radar #satellite #SAR #agriculture
Image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR. Credit: ESA; processing and visualization by Earth Big Data LLC. See alt text for more info.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-isro-mission-will-map-farmland-from-planting-to-harvest/
The ongoing chaos in the USA is making search and rescue efforts more difficult. More subjects and some volunteers are going to be more likely to die as a result.
#SearchandRescue #SAR
"Hey, there's this guy with a parcel for you here" #biomass #sar #satellite arrives in Kourou #RemoteSensing #dnd5e arthObservation https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/ESA_s_pioneering_Biomass_satellite_arrives_at_launch_site
