NASA’s Black Marble 2016 or Syrian Dark Years
About four years ago, Daniel wrote a short article on how to publish a GeoTiff as maptiles and how to use this in a leaflet map. I would…
Category: Studies & Basic Concepts
Off Topic: self hosted GIT-server with Bonobo
This might be a bit off-topic for some of you but it was on my desk recently. Furthermore I think this might be interesting for GEO/GIS folks as…
Using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) for Detection of Burned Areas
Google Earth Engine ( GEE ) is a cloud platform for processing satellite imageries. This service includes images of Landsat 5, 7,8, Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2. You…
Map your CV
Probably everyone at least once in your life was searching for a job and had faced the challenge of creating an interesting resume. But when you start to…
5 ways to get a job in the “geo-industry”
Studying geosciences, geography or geology and all related disciplines commonly ends in the question of appropriate job position. Personally I felt very lucky about my former studies in…
Accessing Landsat and Sentinel-2 on Amazon Web services
The cloud has made it easier to process large amount of data, and satellite imagery processing benefits from cloud processing too. One of the cloud services that offers…
Topography and Bathymetry: GDAL to the rescue
What’s GDAL? GDAL is the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, it’s a library to transform raster and vector data and it’s the Swiss Knife of GIS. Topography and bathymetry…
From Cloud to GIS: Getting Weather Data.
Introduction In this post we are going to look at how to get weather forecast data and display it as a layer in a desktop geographical information system…
ERDDAP: Diving into a Data Ocean
Data Lakes has become a popular term in the Big Data community. It’s used to refer to a large storage repository and processing engine. However there is now…
GIS with javascript – tutorial part 1
An article from Anders. Geodata in javascript GeoJSON is the standard way of storing geodata in JSON, javascripts native data format. The wikipedia article has very clear and…
Pixel Map Generator
The co-founder of webkid.io and interactive developer Moritz Klack recently shared a tweet about the Pixel Map Generator which is a nice addition to my recent “comparison” of…
How far can you travel? Answers in QGIS with OSM route.
My latest posts on routing in QGIS were read from some guys at the University Heidelberg who provide the API for the routing. The contacted me with the…