Spatial Exploration

Photo credit : Twitter Sahiwal coal-fired power plant situated in district Sahiwal province Punjab, Pakistan and about 10 km away from the main Sahiwal city. Sahiwal coal-fired power plant is a part of CPEC project. It consist of two 660 MW plants and combined installed capacity is 1320 MW. Its first unit is inaugurated on 25 th may, 2017. The plant employ 16667/tons of coal per day if it is working on it full potential. Sahiwal is a district rich in agricultural. Major crops is in districts are wheat, sugarcane, cotton, tobacco, rice, mustard seed and maize. The coal plant is at that fertile land and it cover almost 1000 acres area.  Satellite Image of 2015 Satellite image of 2017       According to the manufacturer of the Sahiwal coal power plant, there is filter installed in the plant which is capable of purifying the produced waste smoke. But the real fact is that no system is fully capable of purifying the 100% was...

A free online course, based on five weeks is being offered by Future learn. Course is comprised of five weeks, requires three hours a week. This course is based upon lectures and discussion from well renowned scientist and presented by physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster Dr. Helen Czerski from University College London, remote sensing specialist Dr. Hayley Evers-King from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and the lead educator Dr. Mark Higgins from EUMETSAT. This free course is produced in the support of Copernicus program and run by EUMETSAT .    This course is focused on satellite remote sensing data, how to download, explore and use data from different satellite datasets, specifically Sentinel-3, Sentinel-6 and Jason-3 ocean monitoring satellites and the contributing missions providing marine data for Copernicus – such as Metop and Meteosat,  for Earth Observation.  Lead Educator Dr Mark Higgins explaining Sea Level Rise ocean circulation ...

Figure 1 : Smog at 6 th November, 2017 Smog appear as a type of air contaminated fog, smoke or haze. This word is the combination of two words smoke and fog that’s why we can say that this is smoky fog. This smog is compound of Sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide. Humanoid smog is the subsequent of vehicles smolder, coal burns and industrial emission that generate crop fire. Moreover these factors initiate photo-chemical reactions caused by hazardous emissions that are extremely poisonous for human health and might cause severe ailment or end up with demise. This is smog view from my office (Shaheen complex) In Los Angeles, US city the smog is the resultant of vehicle emission, industry emission (Primary emission that joins in the atmospheric pollutant with sunlight (secondary emission) and becomes smog. In the other city such as Dehli, Indian city, smog is serious dilemma due to the burning of the vestiges after the harvested wheat and other crops. ...