In Q4 2017 there have been at least four Earth Observation related MOOCs that I have been aware of. I have keenly followed these three: Future Learn Earth Observation EO College “Echoes in space” IEA’s Big Data (not solely focused on EO, but there is a decent part devoted to it). All this information was/is… Read More »Massive Open Online Courses on Earth Observation 2017
I have previously written about automatically edge detecting. Using OpenCV is a nice way of quickly running the edge detect and getting some information back about the image. You can read about the Canny edge detection algorithm here Here is how Wikipedia details the process of the canny edge detection (if you didn’t click the… Read More »Reclassify and Numpy
Last week I attended the ESRI Petroleum user group in London. I think just over 200 people attended. I missed last year’s event but I have been present at this regular event many times in the past. Many thanks to the organisers – they do an incredible job. Pleasingly, there were plenty of Earth Observation… Read More »GIS Petroleum User Group
How to consume news/information? If you are not on the first page of a Google search you are effectively nowhere; perhaps if you are not in the first three search results you don’t stand much chance of getting viewed. This presents a problem of trust; we have to trust that the Google search algorithms are… Read More »Keep up to date
What changes can be measured using Landsat and/or Sentinel-2 data? In large areas change detection (land use for example) is commonly used for these data sets. If companies like Orbital Insights are counting cars, using shadows from floating oil tanks to determine capacity and measuring levels of construction, what smaller objects and data analytics can be… Read More »Machine learning Landsat / Sentinel data
Have you ever been given the advice to have loads of bad ideas before? It might sound ludicrous but it stands to reason that working through any idea that comes to mind, even something that seems crazy, and getting it down on paper, could lead to something that actually makes sense. This week I gave… Read More »Have loads of bad ideas