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 →

BARSC Online Huddle VIII

This afternoon I chaired the BARSC Online Huddle VIII event. This, as you may be aware, is the pandemic-icised (yes, that’s now a thing!) version of the events that BARSC used to hold in person in London. The idea is to give the UK commercial remote sensing community, and anyone else who wants to learn […]

Thinking differently

I went for a run in Wytham Woods at the weekend. For those that don’t know, Wytham is the University of Oxford research woodland and there are a whole host of experiments set up in there linked to disciplines such as ecology, climatology, biogeography, biology, chemistry and others. As I passed on mature tree I […]

7 Years

So it has been 7 years today since Geoger Ltd came into being! It seems an age since I first made the decision (in April 2013) to resign my previous position and strike out on my own. I remember walking round Boston (in the USA – everyone needs an origin story!) harbour with my partner, […]