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] →

(G)EO Containers

I’ve had an idea in my head for the past few months to build myself a nice, neat, self-contained data processing set-up using Docker. If you don’t know, Docker is a containerisation system that allows software to be run in a sand-boxed environment i.e. without impacting on your operating system set up. The great thing […]

Changing virtual disks

In VirtualBox you can choose either a dynamic or fixed size virtual disk. Dynamic disks are faster to create and more significantly can grow to larger sizes. Fixed size disks are often faster to use, but can’t grow larger once they fill up. I recently had a requirement to change a dynamic virtual disk to […]

Latest podcast interview

As you may know, I host a podcast on Earth Observation with Andrew Cutts called Scene From Above. You can follow the podcast Twitter account here. In the latest episode (S3 E4) we were lucky enough to interview Anne Hale Miglarese, the CEO of the Radiant Earth Foundation. This is a great organisation, doing some […]