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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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 […]