May 2019

Living Planet Symposium (from afar)

Posted on 2019-05-152019-05-14 by ajggeoger in Conferences, Remote sensing

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 … Continue reading Living Planet Symposium (from afar) →

What’s on Github?

Posted on 2019-05-132019-05-13 by ajggeoger in computing, Remote sensing

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 … Continue reading What’s on Github? →

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 […]