HazBlog-003: Mapping lava flows with HazMapper – the 2002 eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In this post we are going back in time 18 years to highlight the ability of HazMapper to identify lava flow inundation extents. Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa’s most active stratovolcanoes and part of Virunga National Park, is positioned 20 km north of the city of Goma. In 2002, between January 17 and February 3,Continue reading “HazBlog-003: Mapping lava flows with HazMapper – the 2002 eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”

HazBlog-002: Mass Wasting in Burundi, December 2019

The HazMapper project was first envisioned and designed for locating mass wasting events in vegetated environments. We quickly realized that the Google Earth Engine application that we built can be used as a multi-hazard platform, as exemplified by the tornado-track example in our first post. Here we discuss the capabilities of HazMapper for its initialContinue reading “HazBlog-002: Mass Wasting in Burundi, December 2019”