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 →

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 […]