November 2017

Wytham video

Posted on 2017-11-202017-11-01 by ajggeoger in Remote sensing

Late last year, I was lucky enough to have been involved in the creation of one of the episodes of the University of Oxford's "The Laboratory with Leaves" series of videos. https://youtu.be/ljWUESOundQ The whole series is well worth a watch as it details the various different facets of research work that are being undertaken at … Continue reading Wytham video →

Open licences

Posted on 2017-11-072017-10-12 by ajggeoger in General

Software These two sites are incredibly useful if you want to choose or understand an open licence for some software: tldrlegal.com choosealicense.com/ From these sites you can see just how many different open licence variants there are. Despite this, there are just a few that are commonly used, as shown in the 'Most Popular' column … Continue reading Open licences →

(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 […]