First images from recently launched Sentinel 2 satellite
The earth observation satellite Sentinel-2 with Sentinel-2A and Sentinel 2B was launched on June 23rd 2015 from space centre Kourou in French Guiana. The mission is part of…
Author: Simon
I'm a PhD-student at the University of Basel in Switzerland in the area of environmental geoscience. My project is about soil erosion modelling and risk assessment in the swiss alps.
I studied at the universities of Hamburg, Braganca, Lisbon, Halle (Saale) and Leipzig where I did my M. Sc. Physical Geography / Geoecology.
My focus is on soil science especially soil erosion and digital geography.
Maps of “Out of Eden Walk” by Paul Salopek (National Geographic)
Today I had the chance to attend a lecture by Paul Salopek in Tbilisi, Georgia. This lecture took me to the idea to write a short review about…
SMAP – “Soil Moisture Active Passive” generates high resolution soil data
Since we are still in the International of Year of Soils , another Digital Soil Science post is ready. Some of you might already know that I’m addicted to…
SRTM-1 (1 Arc second) now available with large global coverage
With this post I would like to come back on a topic from September 2014. In this blog post on Digital-Geography I announced that from September 2014 until…
International Year of Soils 2015 – Summarize of Soil content
Here comes another more or less off-topic post on soil science because I realized that the feedback for the last two soil related contents about global soil data…
Short Announcement: Webinar “Get started with CartoDB” on 20/11/2014 1PM EDT
We announced some surprises of CartoDB last week, especially that the map views are not anymore limited as well another post last month, that CartoDB opens some restrictions…
Free Global Soil Grids at 1km resolution
I would like to introduce you the newly global coverage of soils grid at 1km ground resolution (online since August 29th 2014). The dataset is funded and provided by…
Announcement: Realease of worldwide high-resultion SRTM-data (30m)
The White House announced on September 23th during the United Nations Heads of State Climate Summit in New York that they are going to release the high-resolution images…
Summary of the “Geodesign” MOOC PennState University
Antoher 5-week MOOC came to it’s end and therefore I like to write a short summary about it. I attended the MOOC “Geodesign: Change your World” created by…
Interactive Space Image Map of ISS-Pictures
The Sojus TMA-13M started on May 28th 2014 from Baikonur to bring the German Alex Gerst, the Russian Maxim Surajew and the American Reid Wiseman to the ISS…
GIS4Geomorphology – Blog recommendation
Since I’m working mostly with GIS and Geodata for Physical Geography (Soils, Geomorphology, Climate) I came across a very precise and recommendable Blog by Skye Cooley which I…
Advanced access to free climate data for Germany of the Climate Data Center
Since July 1st 2014, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) eased restrictions for the usage of climate data and provides users with a big dataset of free climate data for…