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 →

What’s in a day rate?

At a BARSC meeting in March 2019 about commercialising Earth observation I gave a short talk about something that is critical to all independent consultants and freelancers: day rates! The main point that I wanted to make was that although an individual’s day rate might seem high, there are a number of factors that the […]

Have you Scene this?

Many of you reading this will know that I create and host the Scene From Above alongside Andrew Cutts. We have now been publishing episodes (every three weeks) for 2 years! Time has flown by, and hopefully the quality of the episodes has improved a bit since our first demo episode. In this post I […]

A decade in review

Not only is it the end of the year, but it’s also the end of a decade. And a lot of things have changed in this decade. This post won’t cover all (or many!) of them, but I will try to give you a flavour of how things have changed for me (and maybe how […]