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 →

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 […]