planlauf/TERRAIN – a lightweight 3D DEM viewer for daily usage
The visualization and interpolation of 3D terrain (point) data (DEM or DOM) could be a hard task for current GIS software and small to midsize hardware. One thing…
Tag: Software
Geospatial cloud solutions: Software-as-a-Service vs Roll-your-own
Over the last couple of years, we have seen an increase in demand and offerings of geospatial solutions in the cloud for tasks like web map creation, centralized…
Software I use in both worlds: Windows & Ubuntu
I am somehow a messy guy. After 3 years now my OS was a bit “stuffed” and I decided to go with the flow, erased the whole HDD…
SoftwareX: the new “coding” magazine
Thanks to a recent post in the Geoscience and Remote Sensing group on Facebook I discovered SoftwareX. SoftwareX is a new journal from the Elsevier. It focusses more…
Introducing: My personal application list
Once again I switched from Windows back to Ubuntu as I only needed Win for my granted ESRI license but hated to be “interrupted” by automatic updates, missing…
Google Earth Pro is now for free!
Google recently made an announcement that left me very happy: Google Earth Pro, the enhanced version of the world’s most popular digital globe, is now available for free.…
Data extraction and clean up with tabula and open refine
Everyone working with data knows the problem: You found some interesting data for your journalistic project or statistics for preparing a nice map, but the data comes messy…
Freeware SAR processing, Part II: PolSARPro
In this post I’ll take you through some simple functions in the freeware polarimetric SAR processing package, PolSARPro. The software is distributed by the European Space Agency (ESA)…
Freeware SAR processing (Part 1.)
One thing about working with synethic aperture radar (SAR) data is that regular image processing functions are often unsuitable. This is because most processes were design to deal…
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…
short announcement: QGIS 64bit
So I’ve checked our twitter time line this morning and came across this nice little line: @willoxh tweeted that there is a new version of qgis which enables…
Python Script for “depth vs. data” plots
Today I want to share a Python script that I wrote to plot some lab data against the core depth it was taken from. I know its not…