Sunday, March 17, 2019

From crashing kites and Frankenmodels to efficient large-scale UAV acquisitions and beautiful shared 3D models (2018 GSA talk)

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I was invited to give a presentation in a session at the Fall 2018 Geological Society of America session T60. Revolutions in Remote Sensing:...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Anniversary of Great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami (20110311)

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Today is the anniversary of the catastrophic great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. While I am not an expert of subduc...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Idea for an earthquake intensity exercise based on 1857 Ft. Tejon earthquake data

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I was cleaning some files yesterday and I found an old exercise I had deployed when I was first teaching Introductory Geology. It was inten...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Updated review of fault scarp analysis

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I am organizing for a presentation to my research group on fault scarp analysis. This is an ongoing obsession of mine. I have blogged about ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Specialization certificate for the assessment and management of geological and climate related risk (CERG-C) course in Geneva and Vulcano Island

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I just returned from my second year of participation in the Specialization certificate for the assessment and management of geological and c...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Viewing 3D planes (discs) with a specified diameter and orientation in ArcScene

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We have been pondering how to visualize planes in 3D as a way to assess correlation of beds in an area. My colleague Chris Campisano and ou...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Structure from Motion using video from my phone camera

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Introduction. In my last post , I showed how I had extracted frames from satellite-derived video to build a 3D model of a mine from space. ...