April 2016

Embracing spatial

Posted on 2016-04-20 by ajggeoger in Business, General

With greater openness, wider data markets, and better software and interface designs, the question can still being asked: why is geospatial not taken up more rapidly? From within the geospatial industry it seems as if things are going from strength to strength, but when I mention what i do to those without a direct link to GIS … Continue reading Embracing spatial →

Open data and Metaldehyde risk mapping [update]

Posted on 2016-04-072016-04-07 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

This is an updated post based on this blog post from 2014. The work presented here is still a proof of concept to demonstrate the utility of open data. If you'd like to work with Geoger to develop this further, please get in touch. The idea Metaldehyde is a pesticide found primarily in slug pellets and associated products, … Continue reading Open data and Metaldehyde risk mapping [update] →

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 […]