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 →

(G)EO Containers

I’ve had an idea in my head for the past few months to build myself a nice, neat, self-contained data processing set-up using Docker. If you don’t know, Docker is a containerisation system that allows software to be run in a sand-boxed environment i.e. without impacting on your operating system set up. The great thing […]

Changing virtual disks

In VirtualBox you can choose either a dynamic or fixed size virtual disk. Dynamic disks are faster to create and more significantly can grow to larger sizes. Fixed size disks are often faster to use, but can’t grow larger once they fill up. I recently had a requirement to change a dynamic virtual disk to […]

Latest podcast interview

As you may know, I host a podcast on Earth Observation with Andrew Cutts called Scene From Above. You can follow the podcast Twitter account here. In the latest episode (S3 E4) we were lucky enough to interview Anne Hale Miglarese, the CEO of the Radiant Earth Foundation. This is a great organisation, doing some […]