This week I attended an excellent talk given by Dr Jon Blower, CTO at IEA in Reading, entitled “Satellites, sensors and statistics – from environmental data to decisions” which was a meetup of the Society of Data Miners at the Royal Statistical Society in London. It is always good to attend events like this when… Read More »Space is open
This week Planet successfully launched 88 of its doves, taking another massive step forward in mapping the entire planet daily. I have written about the dramatic increase in temporal resolution data several times in the past. It is worth repeating though – I think – that while Remote Sensing is not new, the level of… Read More »Data, data everywhere
What is Big Data? Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing application softwares are inadequate to deal with them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data In an event this week in central London I heard big data described as “non-spreadsheet” data. I think Earth Observation (EO) data could fit… Read More »Earth Observation: Big Data
With remote sensing we often talk about the 3 resolutions: spatial, temporal and spectral. In recent years a massive step change has occurred with temporal data. Even this week there has been another huge leap forward. Planet have just announced that they are to launch a world record 88 of its doves and, if successful,… Read More »EO point based unsupervised classification