January 2016

EODIP Project win

Posted on 2016-01-29 by ajggeoger in Business, Remote sensing

Geoger is pleased to announce the award of a new Defra consultancy contract. We are part of a consortium led by Specto Natura Ltd and with APMGeo Ltd which is specifying a set of generic indicator products under the Earth Observation Data Integration Pilot (EODIP) project framework. EODIP is a collection of projects seeking to foster greater … Continue reading EODIP Project win →

A first look at Sentinel 2 imagery

Posted on 2016-01-272016-01-27 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

The European Sentinel 2 mission is now live and returning data. This is great news for everyone! Admittedly the usable coverage of the UK is currently quite low thanks to a lot of winter cloud, but an image collected in December 2015 has a reasonable amount of southern England visible to the sensor. The images … Continue reading A first look at Sentinel 2 imagery →

Satellites for Forestry 2

Posted on 2016-01-04 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

Linked to an earlier blog post on Landsat and Satellites for Forestry, the following link discusses the use of the Landsat image archive to investigate changes in forest cover following the collapse of the Soviet Union (http://landsat.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=86221). The article provides a fascinating insight into how political changes often lead to landscape-scale alterations in land cover.

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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 […]