Last time I wrote about how Cloud Optimized Geotiffs (COGs) are a great way to save you from having to download data and that they can be be easily streamed into QGIS (3.4 and later). If you would like to read that post it is available here. This time though I want to look in… Read More »Using Cloud Optimized Geotiff part 2 – Python
The Cloud Optimized Geotiff (COG). Is it helping you to stop unnecessarily downloading data? It should. One of the biggest Earth Observation ‘things’ in 2019 was that USGS is delivering Landsat 8 as COGs (that have a SpatioTemoral Asset Catalog – STAC as well) But old practices die hard and sometimes, despite the knowledge of… Read More »Using Cloud Optimized Geotiff part 1
I spent a large chunk of 2019 working on a project looking at measuring Natural Capital using Earth Observation. I thought I would share some thoughts on this interesting topic. First off, a definition: Natural capital can be defined as the world’s stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, water and all living… Read More »Natural Capital and Earth Observation
I started blogging on www.acgeospatial.co.uk in May 2016 and since then (at the time of writing in January 2020) I have gone on to write over 120 blog posts. I write loosely around the topic of Earth Observation and Satellite imagery but also more generally on Geospatial topics. GIS is my background. I am a… Read More »Geospatial Python Course V1
This is the last EO quarterly news of 2019. I try and use these posts to record what happen in the general sphere of Earth Observation / Geospatial across each quarter. If you want a more regular news please check out the #scenefromabove podcast which gets a new episode approximately once every 3 weeks. If… Read More »Earth Observation Q4 2019 review