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 →

Improve my UX!

There seems to be a trend at the moment for web pages with very light text*. I wonder whether this is a response to the ‘dark themes’ that have been prevalent in recent years. Or maybe my beef with the ‘light text on light background’ is more to do with ageing eyes! Although this sort […]

Living Planet Symposium (from afar)

Wow! The European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium 2019 is creating a huge positive feeling towards Earth observation this week – and I’m not even there! One of the nicest things for those of us who have been unable to get there has been the social media wall (created using walls.io). I’d not come across […]

What’s on Github?

I thought that I would post about some of the interesting things that I have come across on GitHub that relate to Earth observation. GitHub, if you aren’t a coder, is an online platform where software code can be managed, stored and shared. I just want to say up front that I haven’t tried and […]