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 →

Portainer

Recently I’ve been doing much of my processing work using Docker. This containerisation software is great for keeping software and data separate from your base machine, but more importantly allows the same software configuration to be used across different operating systems and hardware. Anyway, more about how I have been using it can be found […]

Conference costs

I hope that this doesn’t come across as a moan, because it isn’t meant to. It’s more of a query. Why is it that some conferences are so expensive? I’d really like to have attended the three events listed below, but their registration costs are prohibitive for independents and micro businesses (and probably many other […]

JNCC Business Associate

If you follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn then you might have seen a recent announcement that I have approached to become, and have been contracted as, a JNCC Business Associate. I am incredibly chuffed with this. Being a Business Associate makes it easier for micro-businesses and freelancers to work with the project teams at […]