March 2014

Remote sensing: efficiently searching the seas

Posted on 2014-03-262014-03-27 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

Building on my post from the 27 February, it seems that 2014 certainly is a year where remote sensing is hitting the mainstream. The reasons for this may not be happy ones (floods, missing aircraft, landslides) but the use of satellite imagery (and satellite technologies in general e.g. the signal processing and modelling undertaken by … Continue reading Remote sensing: efficiently searching the seas →

5 minute introduction… to RS

Posted on 2014-03-20 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

Quite a few people seem puzzled when I tell them that my job involves remote sensing. It seems that remotely sensed imagery is becoming ever more present, with it being used across the news media and embedded into online maps, but very few people know that there is so much more to it. The video … Continue reading 5 minute introduction… to RS →

FOSS4GUKOnline 2020

On 17th June 2020 the OSGeo:UK committee (of which I am part) hosted the FOSS4GUKOnline one day conference. We were helped on the day by a brilliant group of volunteers. The conference comprised of three streams, names Nightingale (a reference to Covid!), Sentinel (a reference to Earth observation) and Mercator (a reference to mapping and […]

Networking chats

In April the #scenefromabove podcast has held a series of short networking chats. I implemented these, along with co-host Andrew Cutts, in March when the lock downs around the world started to come into effect. There will likely be a couple more chats in May. Where is the growth in the EO sector? The first […]

An #eoadventure

In this time of lock-down I thought it would be a fun idea to mess about on Twitter with a ‘choose your own adventure‘ style thread. The idea is very loosely based on the books I read as a child. You can find it here, on the Scene From Above account: This may or may […]