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 →

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 […]