I recently finished a proof-of-concept project with FrontierSI for creating some building blocks aimed at scaleable, programmatic quality assurance for hydrographic surveys. It was a fantastic opportunity to work on the foundations of some huge future projects on large scale hydrographic data collection. I set out thinking ‘great, I can PDAL all the things!’ –…
Category: data services
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…
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…
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…
Software carpentry – achievement unlocked
Last week I became a certified Carpentries instructor. This means that I have done some training, and demonstrated some skill in, teaching grownups how to write programs and wrangle data. It also means I’ve joined a worldwide community of people who are dedicated to helping other people avoid mistakes they’ve made. Which is an excellent…
EGU 2017
I’m going to Vienna next week for EGU17 – which is awesome, and I’m extraordinarily excited under my ‘I’m a badass science ninja’ veneer! I’ll be listening a lot, and talking a little bit about work I’m doing at the National Computational Infrastructure on some ideas for data services around massive, dense point data –…