Going Geospatial in London!

I spent last week in London immersed in all things geospatial, attending both GEO Business and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) UK & Ireland Forum. GEO Business 2024 was held at the ExCeL London exhibition centre on the 4th and … Continue reading

Satellite Launched & Found

This week we’re looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) launches both in terms of satellites and machine learning datasets, together with the discovery of a lost satellite! WorldView-Legion EO Satellites Finally Launch! We were a little premature when we … Continue reading

Not Blue at OGC in Delft

This week, I’m at the 128th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member Meeting in Delft, Netherlands taking place from 25th to 28th March 2024. The theme for the meeting is Geospatial Data for Building Information Models (GEO-BIM) for the Built Environment, … Continue reading

Geospatial Data In Disaster Situations

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Disaster Pilot 23 public Demonstration Day took place yesterday, where all the results and achievements of the 2023 Pilot presented within a webinar. We discussed the OGC organisation itself in last week’s blog, and as … Continue reading

On Your Marks, Get Set, Code!

I spent last week in London at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) October 2023 Open Standards Code Sprint. Or to put it another way, I spent three full days simply coding, one of my favourite ways to pass the time! … Continue reading

Geospatial Coming To America

Last week I attended the June member meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. OGC is a consortium of geospatial experts committed to improving access to geospatial information, and supporting data exchange through standards. We were … Continue reading

Data Preservation At CERN

My European travels have continued after my visit to EGU, last week I was in Geneva at CERN, also known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research. I was attending the PV2023 conference titled ‘Adding value (to) and preserving Scientific … Continue reading

Viennese GeoSciences at EGU

Last week I was in Vienna attending the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, alongside 15,000 other people, and it was as extensive and diverse as I remember from previous events. This is demonstrated by the organisers reporting there … Continue reading