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GISRUK 2012 – Thursday
The second part of GoGeo’s review of GISRUK 2012 covers Thursday. If you want to find out what happened on Wednesday, please read this post. Thusrday saw a full programme of talks split between two parallel sessions. I chose to go … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Open Source, OSGeo, Remote Sensing, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged Geospatial, GIS, GISRUK2012, Lancaster, Research, UK
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GISRUK 2012 – Wednesday
GISRUK 2012 was held in Lancaster, hosted by Lancaster University. The conference aimed to cover a broad range of subjects including Environmental Geoinformatics, Open GIS, Social GIS, Landscape Visibility and Visualisation and Remote Sensing. In addition to the traditional format, this years … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Remote Sensing, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged GIS, GISRUK, GISRUK2012, Lancaster, Research
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UK Bio Bank
While watching the news on Friday night, yes it doesn’t get much more exciting than that these days, i saw a piece on the UK Bio Bank. UK Biobank is a major national health resource with the aim of improving … Continue reading
100 years after Scott
This week marks the 100 year anniversary of Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. I would imagine that you all know who Scott was and what happened on his final attempt to reach the South Pole before Amundsen, if you need … Continue reading
Posted in Open Data, Open Source, Remote Sensing
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Satellites monitor impact of climate change on ecosystems
If you are interested in ecosystems and conservation and how remote sensing can be used as a monitoring tool then you might be interested to read a paper published today in Ecological Indicators. Tracking the effect of climate change on … Continue reading
Posted in Remote Sensing, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, ecology, INDVI, remote sensing
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Europe’s cold snap visualised
You might have noticed that Europe is currently experiencing colder than normal temperatures. Freak snow storms in southern Italy and Tripoli point at things being quite unusual. Scores of people have died as a result of exposure with the homeless … Continue reading
Posted in Remote Sensing
Tagged cold, Earth Observatory, Europe, MODIS, NASA, remote sensing, weather
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Whats in a name?
An interesting post that I spotted on the Strange Maps blog. The article looks at placenames in a metropolitan (built up) environment. Quite often, unlike in rural areas, there is no clear demarcation between different areas. So how do you know when you … Continue reading
The E39 from Scotland to The Faroes
Google have been getting a bit of a bad press over the last week or so as Openstreetmap accused Google of spatial vandalism. It appears that a number of malicious edits were made to OSM from Google IP addresses. OSM … Continue reading
Posted in Cartography
Tagged error, Faroes, google, google maps, Orkney, OSM, Shetland
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New NLS website – Great Britain, Ten Mile to One Inch Planning Maps series, 1944-1960
We are very lucky to have persuaded Christopher Fleet of the National Library of Scotland to write a guest blog for us…… The National Library of Scotland has just released a new website, allowing georeferenced thematic maps of Great Britain … Continue reading
Song Map
Just a bit of Monday morning fun to get you through the January Blues. NME have a great songmap on their blog. The map and lithographs were created by wearedorothy and are available for £20. There is even a Spotify playlist … Continue reading
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