New tools are always exciting! In July this year a new ANAFI thermal arrived to replace / collaborate with a couple of slightly broken ANAFI work aircraft. It’s taken a long time to put together a post about it because – its complicated! Adding the thermal camera means a whole new learning curve / capability…
Category: QGIS
Making the MH370 map
I had a lot of fun making the feature image for my second open source point cloud infrastructure post – and I liked the map, so I thought I’d share the recipe. Unfortunately, it took a while because I decided to make it better! I hope I succeeded – I certainly had more fun and…
Experiments with Anafi – and point cloud infrastructure part 3
This is both a consumer grade RPAS (remotely piloted airborne system) write-up, and part 3 of the ‘open source point cloud infrastructure’ series (see part 1 and part 2) – looking at much smaller scale data produced by consumer (and other) RPAS systems using cameras. The story starts with purchasing a tiny airplane to support…
An open source point cloud infrastructure part 2: oceans
If you haven’t read part 1 of this miniseries, go take a look. To really briefly summarise, it tells a short backstory about why the PDAL + Entwine needs to be on the radar for anyone considering massive point-cloud based data management; and provides a couple of terrestrial examples. Here, we tackle hydrography. The GEBCO…
A short visual history of shipping access to Australian Antarctic stations
In late 2014 I was contracted by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre to analyse Antarctic shipping patterns from 2000 to 2014. The aim was to extend a planning report first published in 2008, and provide deeper insights into shipping patterns in order to plan for future shipping seasons. Obvious shipping routes arise as…