The rise of an amateur architect
Our family owns a house in the northern parts of Norway. The family spends around eight weeks there a year fishing, mowing the lawn, hiking, meeting family, eating good food and more. I have also spent...
View ArticleClearinghouse for the environment – the scaffolding (I)
In our work with development cooperation GIS we have come to a point where we find it necessary to establish an overall publication system for environmental information. We will do this together with...
View ArticleOnline in Timor Leste – update
I have now been three times in Timor Lestewithin a year. My first time was 14 days in September 2011. My only regret from that trip was not being able to use a local sim-card in my iPhone. Cards were...
View ArticleSentinel 2 for the environment – listening, structuring and remembering
The Sentinel 2 satellite modelled by RAMA, published via Wikipedia The ESA Sentinel 2 satellites will provide the global community of environmental scientists and managers with fantastic terrestrial...
View ArticleRekreasjonsorientert bruk av droner – 2
Arm på quadkopter etter en litt for hard landing I en tidligere posting beskrev jeg om de juridiske rammene som omfatter privat bruk av et quadkopter (drone). I denne postingen vil jeg se litt på...
View ArticleQDGC shapefiles available for national and continental scale distribution
A new set of the Quarter Degree Grid Cell shapefiles has been generated. The update is global and delivers an error fix for the country level files as well as a new product – continent level files. The...
View ArticleProcessing 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...
View ArticleConverting 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...
View ArticleUganda QGIS and remote sensing workshop
This week I had the privilege of coordinating a workshop on QGIS and remote sensing in Kampala, Uganda. Our trainers were Thomas Ballatore and Shane Bradt. We were very pleased with their walkthroughs...
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