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Lake Greenhow: A Forgotten Relic of the Ice Age

Yesterday’s post led me to glaciers, glacial lakes, and the like. At Botton Head, my imagination ran riot.

Difficult as it is to picture now, 10,000 years ago, a glacier covered the Tees Valley before me. The ice sheet, it is well-known, never quite managed to smother the Nor ...

fhithich.uk/2025/03/26/lake-gr

Glacial Lake Mapping Using Remote Sensing Geo-Foundation Model
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104 <-- shared paper
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HIGHLIGHTS:
• Proposed U-ViT model based on Prithvi GFM for multi-sensor glacial lake mapping.
• Achieved an F1 score of 0.894 on Sentinel-1&2, surpassing CNNs scoring below 0.8.
• Maintains strong performance with 50% less training data, proving efficiency.
• Excels in detecting small lakes (<0.01km²) and handling clouds and complex terrains..."

The Planet's Melting Glaciers Are Releasing A Treasure Trove Of Ancient Artifacts
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cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-planet <-- shared media article / radio audio
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hachettebookgroup.com/titles/l <-- shared link to book
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secretsoftheice.com/ <-- link to web site, Secrets of the Ice - The Archaeology of Glaciers and Ice Patches
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youtu.be/9bpGsHWckCA?si=FE66aJ <-- Secrets of the Ice overview video
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of this book]

The web version of Mastodon is really awfully slow. Right now typing this it takes a second or two before the characters are shown in the textbox. Clicking the Notifications or Home link freezes everything for 5-10 seconds before things slowly load. I guess this is Javascript's fault too. We should never have allowed our tools to become web based. But few tools are as laggy as Mastodon though.