February 2019

BiDS19 Munich

Posted on 2019-02-262019-02-21 by ajggeoger in computing, Conferences, Remote sensing

Between 19th and 21st February 2019, Munich played host to the Big Data from Space 2019 (#BiDS19) conference. The conference was jointly organised by ESA, SatCen and the JRC and hosted by DLR (the German Space Agency). It's remit was to cover all spatio-temporal Earth and space observation data collected by a variety of sensors, … Continue reading BiDS19 Munich →

(G)EO Containers

Posted on 2019-02-12 by ajggeoger in computing

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 about … Continue reading (G)EO Containers →

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 […]

Portainer

Recently I’ve been doing much of my processing work using Docker. This containerisation software is great for keeping software and data separate from your base machine, but more importantly allows the same software configuration to be used across different operating systems and hardware. Anyway, more about how I have been using it can be found […]