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 →

Just keep going!

Some of you will know that I enjoy running. At the moment, a young woman called Anna McNuff is running 100 marathons (that’s 2,620 miles!) completely barefoot. Her Barefoot Britain challenge began in the far north of the Shetland Islands in June and will end in London in November. More information can be found using […]

Thank you FOSS

Free and open source software (FOSS). I bet you use it somewhere in your computing life. Whether that’s at home, through a web browser such as Firefox, or at work using LibreOffice or QGIS. Although the word ‘free’ is used in the name, as with much in life there will be a cost incurred somewhere […]

Simple solutions

A couple of years ago I was asked to undertake some analysis of a river catchment to assess various ecosystem services. It was something that Sentinel-2 was perfect for, as I needed to rapidly and cheaply obtain a time series of imagery, classify the imagery into various different classes and then return some zonal statistics […]