Our Belgian Earthquake Emergency Report System (BEERS) detects abnormal visitor fluxes on the http://www.seismologie.be website and sends emails & SMS whenever some threshold is met. Recently, we have upgraded our sms machinery to FoxBox and for some weird reasons, the…
Year: 2014
Earthworm statmgr replacement
At ROB, we don’t use Earthworm (ew) for real time acquisition or monitoring, but we have installed it on our computer at the Kawah Ijen observatory in order to group all seismic fluxes on a single machine, and thus a…
Playing with PICs – The beginning
Well, usually, “The Beginning” tends to come after some trilogy, but, eh!, who cares ! I’ve been playing with Microchip PICs for quite a number of years, mostly with small-and-somehow-useless blink-a-led projects. Now, I’ve got a project I want to…
Shaded Relief Map in Python
Today, we’ll combine different cool stuff: cartopy, Google Maps tiles, SRTM elevation data and shaded relief maps ! We will need cartopy (+ dependencies), which you can install from source, or from C. Gohlke’s prebuilt binaries for Windows users. The…
Relief Maps in Google Earth
Ok, this must be many years old, but I found it today, so let’s call it a Discovery. The following link gives you the ability to download a network-linked colour-coded relief overlay from Maps-For-Free, but directly in Google Earth. I…