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 →

Conference costs

I hope that this doesn’t come across as a moan, because it isn’t meant to. It’s more of a query. Why is it that some conferences are so expensive? I’d really like to have attended the three events listed below, but their registration costs are prohibitive for independents and micro businesses (and probably many other […]

JNCC Business Associate

If you follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn then you might have seen a recent announcement that I have approached to become, and have been contracted as, a JNCC Business Associate. I am incredibly chuffed with this. Being a Business Associate makes it easier for micro-businesses and freelancers to work with the project teams at […]

BiDS19 Munich

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, […]