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…
Web services: NCSS and WCS
This is a blog post about work I’ve done in a past role, but I’d like to get out to a wider audience. It’s about two different web services that do similar things: NetCDF subset service (NCSS), and Web Coverage Service (WCS). I hope it also helps to act as a short guide on making…
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…
LiDAR basics – tutorial building
I’ve just wrapped up a small job refreshing teaching materials for the Australian National University Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics – an innovative group using remote sensing tech to address landscape-scale analysis of things that matter for assessing the state of the environment (see, for example: http://wald.anu.edu.au/data_services/data/continuous-and-comprehensive-national-environmental-reporting-australias-environment/). The task? convert a MATLAB and ArcGIS-based…
Cartocrafting
Digging deep into my my own history here, I left high school full of confidence that I would become an illustrator and spend my life drawing things for science! I didn’t make the cut for art school. And went to science instead – there’s a long story about why I didn’t just leap straight into…
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…
An open source point cloud data infrastructure: introduction, and land.
I’ve recently been exploring the Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL) and Entwine ecosystem a lot. For work, and for proving some ideas that have been kicking around for a few years now (see my EGU poster from 2016, or FOSS4G talk in 2017). These are not new ideas – other people have had them for…
FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018
In late November 2018 the inaugural FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference took place – as one of the organisers it is still completely surreal that it was real, and we made it happen! To me, it feels now as if a few enthusiastic people had a conversation about a year ago, someone waved a magic wand,…
More sea ice reconstructions
Because we all focus so hard while writing workshops for FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018, right? Here are a couple more ‘fun with sea ice’ visualisations. There’s nothing really scientific about these, they’re based on some proof of concept work which is very slowly iterating toward science. So, just enjoy! Firstly, SIPEX II Ice station 7…
Open AgTech – a prelude
I recently attended to a workshop on AgTech innovation, hosted by the Canberra Innovation Network and the US Embassy. It was a fun and really useful day out – hearing stories about what drives the agriculture sector, what they see as innovative, and how niches in the sector are filled by innovators literally ‘on the…