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 →

Have you Scene this?

Many of you reading this will know that I create and host the Scene From Above alongside Andrew Cutts. We have now been publishing episodes (every three weeks) for 2 years! Time has flown by, and hopefully the quality of the episodes has improved a bit since our first demo episode. In this post I […]

A decade in review

Not only is it the end of the year, but it’s also the end of a decade. And a lot of things have changed in this decade. This post won’t cover all (or many!) of them, but I will try to give you a flavour of how things have changed for me (and maybe how […]

A great start to 2020

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) exists to assess and mitigate the effects of desertification and drought at national and international levels through a programme of strategic international cooperation and partnership. First recommended as part of Agenda 21, and becoming active in 1996, it is the only internationally legally binding framework set up […]