March 2019

Conference costs

Posted on 2019-03-192019-02-28 by ajggeoger in Business, Conferences

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 … Continue reading Conference costs →

JNCC Business Associate

Posted on 2019-03-052019-02-28 by ajggeoger in Business, news

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 … Continue reading JNCC Business Associate →

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 […]

Collaboration not competition

Above my desk are a series of sticky notes, created when I first started Geoger and kept in sight so that I don’t lose focus of the type of business I want to run and undertake. One of those notes has written on it ‘collaboration not competition’. In the May/June issue of GeoConnexion magazine there […]

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 […]