Radiation Map of the World

(radiaverse.com)

43 points | by slater 3 days ago

9 comments

  • defrost 1 hour ago
    That's not a radiation map of Australia ( https://radiaverse.com/country/au#2.82/-27.05/133.28 )

    This is a radiation map of Australia: https://www.ga.gov.au/bigobj/GA13928.pdf ( gridded data available for d/load )

    The first being a very few submitted tracks of handheld click counters with limited accuracy and no reporting of the peaks across the breadth of gamma spectrum; the second being a decades long high resolution 256 channel 40 litre crystal pack calibrated, normalised, geophysical survey of the entire continent.

    • DJBunnies 48 minutes ago
      I see you've played knifey-spoony before.
  • bluecollarworke 1 hour ago
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    • andy99 43 minutes ago
      I left at the terms of service. I just wanted to see a map, it’s not worth trying to figure out what rights they want to take from me in order to do a quick browse.
  • Stitch4223 2 hours ago
    The changing scales and meaning while zooming in and out makes it hard to derive conclusion from these measurements.

    Sometimes it looks like somebody just used a more sensitive or uncalibrated device or is carrying a nuclear warhead around during an entire route of measuring.

    • phyzome 1 hour ago
      Yeah, and I was hoping that you could still look at high-level averaging over a country ("maybe the bad data will average out") but when I looked at a few hotspots it appears that those all came down to a couple uncalibrated-looking devices.

      Not very useful or interesting in its current form, unfortunately.

    • zhivota 1 hour ago
      Yeah I checked some tracks and it basically looked like the longer someone spent in a place, the higher the readings got. Maybe when the device doesn't get a lot of ventilation it starts to misread.
    • defrost 45 minutes ago
      Pretty much, there are no shortage of ways to merge such data badly.

      Many devices, uncalibrated and drifting, poor time normalisation to address counts accumulating when lingering, ... ffs they probably don't even adjust for cosmic or radon ...

      ( TBF the last two are pretty picky objections unless you're going hardcore geophysical professional )

  • Onavo 3 minutes ago
    Any more affordable alternatives to the radiacode scintillator devices?
  • jareklupinski 1 hour ago
    watch out for this hotspot in nyc!

    https://radiaverse.com/map#15.65/40.782/-73.974

    who knew we kept such things just lying around :)

  • DivingForGold 1 hour ago
    Just more NAG SCREENS !
  • schiffern 1 hour ago

      >THE WORLD’S RADIATION MAP, MEASURED BY ITS PEOPLE
    
    I'm waiting for the one by others, but thanks.
  • woodpanel 1 hour ago
    Curious as to why Germany seems to be the only large country with almost full coverage.

    If all the data is crowdsourced it’s probably the German Atom-Angst

  • waltervc 1 hour ago
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