March 2016

A temporal data source

Posted on 2016-03-16 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

Numerous satellite Earth observation missions have been undertaken since the first Landsat satellite was launched in 1972. Each one of these has built on the previous mission, with the radiometric, spatial and temporal capabilities of the systems being continually improved. We are currently in a period of unprecedented growth in the number of active missions, … Continue reading A temporal data source →

Open elevation data & archaeology: Part 1

Posted on 2016-03-012016-06-19 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

Over the last year Geoger has been working with researchers at Wytham Woods (the Oxford University research wood, to the west of the city) to investigate the utility of LiDAR data for uncovering archaeological features - specifically, the remains of a network of World War 1 training trenches. The work started with the use of … Continue reading Open elevation data & archaeology: Part 1 →

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 […]