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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What’s in a day rate?

At a BARSC meeting in March 2019 about commercialising Earth observation I gave a short talk about something that is critical to all independent consultants and freelancers: day rates! The main point that I wanted to make was that although an individual’s day rate might seem high, there are a number of factors that the […]

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 […]