Copernicus, Sentinel and your favourite GIS
The Copernicus Program provides an interesting alternative data source for your work with Landsat data… Sentinel images: Copernicus will deliver an unprecedented volume of free data, provide new…
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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…
Downloading Sentinel satellite imagery
Sentinel is the buzzword for a series of Earth observation missions like Sentinel-1 (Land and Ocean monitoring,launched in April 2014), Sentinel-2 (land monitoring, launched in June 2015) and…
The new flickr2qgis plugin for QGIS
In the last week I saw a post on the German ESRI page called GIS-IQ which featured a new widget for ArcGIS which needs you to have the…
Comparing ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D – 30m” with SRTM 1
The last post with the focus on recent data for your work when it comes to DSMs or DEMs was a bit early honestly. I was working with…
Short Announcement: SRTM 1 Data Worldwide
The digital elevation dataset resulting from the SRT Mission in the year 2000 is probably the most widely used digital elevation dataset in the world. It was first…
Landsat in Love with QGIS: the newest coup from Luca
The normal way of getting Landsat data for your GIS projects often was: visit a Landsat data mart like landcover.org, earthexplorer or WIST, search for your area and…
ArcGIS Open Data
For a year, ESRI’s open data initiative is online. As I’ve heard about it for the first time I was just thinking: nice move to get people into…
short announcement: tactical pilotage maps online
Watching for gifts for map lovers these days? Some guys over at reddit do so as well. Besides some interesting links (notebooks, OpenStreetMap clothings or map glasses) there…
DataSF or how to do open data right
In 2010 the City and County of San Francisco’s official open data portal was launched. To me it is the ultimate experience for publishing/consuming open data: based on…
short announcement: Berlin geodata downloadable…
I don’t know what’s wrong with the governmental insitutions in Germany/Berlin: They have this law, that all the geodata are somehow under an open license but to me…
short announcement: TopoToolbox 2: Geomorphometry made easy in MATLAB
< p align=”justify”>Digital elevation models (DEMs) exist today for the entire globe with consistent quality. Improvements in sensors and data processing give a clue that in the future…