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Clearinghouse for the environment – the girders (II)

In February 2012 I wrote about “Environmental Spatial Data Infrastructure” on this blog. Later that year the case complex matured somewhat and in August I wrote the posting “Clearinghouse for the...

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Processing Sentinel 2 satellite imagery in Norway

The second report on “Preparations for acquisition and application of optical satellite data for Norway Digital” (Gjertsen et al) written for the Norwegian Space Agency has now been published. This...

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Converting shapefiles to Mission Planner .poly-files

Mission Planner by Michael Oborne is an impressive piece of software. It is used to program the open-source APM autopilot. The autopilot is used to control planes, copters and rovers. I have used...

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Geoinformation Policy in East Africa (paper review)

For many of us Spatial Data Infrastructures represent the roads we are using in our work. What is the current standing on Spatial data Infrastructure in East Africa? Mr William Kalande and Mr. Ondulo...

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Geoinformation Policy in Tanzania

Where can I find information about spatial data in Tanzania? Who coordinates this work? How is it done? What is the availability of the roads data set? Who owns the data sets? What does it cost? What...

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Wilderness 2: A practical approach to wilderness analysis using FME

Psalter World Map ca 1265 In a former posting I discussed how wilderness is not only about politics, religion, philosophy and legal instruments. Unless we force it into a practical context, the term...

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Wilderness 3a: The Bulgaria analysis

I visited Bulgaria in December 2014. Based on discussions with BBF while contributing to their GIS training I decided to do a national wilderness analysis for Bulgaria. The Bulgaria analysis was done...

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Wilderness 4: Wilderness degradation analysis

Area with wilderness and encroachment. Visualization of change of wilderness status. Wilderness degradation happens when new encroachments are made changing the wilderness status of an area. It is a...

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Wilderness 3d: The Canary Islands wilderness

Wilderness on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Like many other Europeans I have had my share of visits to the Canary Islands (three and counting). The climate is decent from February until November....

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Report on coastal environmental data in Tanzania – towards a NDSI in Tanzania

Front page of the study of coastal and marine data sets in Tanzania A report on coastal and marine environmental data in Tanzania has been published. The work was done by COWI Tanzania. This article...

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