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] →

Improve my UX!

There seems to be a trend at the moment for web pages with very light text*. I wonder whether this is a response to the ‘dark themes’ that have been prevalent in recent years. Or maybe my beef with the ‘light text on light background’ is more to do with ageing eyes! Although this sort […]

Living Planet Symposium (from afar)

Wow! The European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium 2019 is creating a huge positive feeling towards Earth observation this week – and I’m not even there! One of the nicest things for those of us who have been unable to get there has been the social media wall (created using walls.io). I’d not come across […]

What’s on Github?

I thought that I would post about some of the interesting things that I have come across on GitHub that relate to Earth observation. GitHub, if you aren’t a coder, is an online platform where software code can be managed, stored and shared. I just want to say up front that I haven’t tried and […]