This article shares some guidance and resources for starting a career in the geospatial field. The focus is on learning about jobs & companies, building your profile, finding role models & going to conferences. I also want to share some personal experience to make it clear that no one has…

Do you want to pull all meetings & events from your or any shared Google calendar via the Google calendar API in Python? This blogpost provides step-for-step instructions on how to setup authentication, request calendar events and handle the pagination token. For the full code, check the calendar-insights repository. Setup Google Calendar API First…

Recent funding rounds of startups focused on thermal remote sensing made me much more curious about this field. Here is a quick introduction to thermal imaging, applications and thermal satellite startups. Thermal imaging We have all seen some examples of on the ground thermal imaging, e.g. to inspect building insulation or a…

MkDocs, the powerful and easy-to-use documentation framework, gets even better when using its community developed plugins. This article shows some of the best customization options and plugins for e.g. diagrams, code reference, notebook integration, macros, pdf generation etc. mkdocs-material & pymarkdown extensions Lets start with some general mkdocs features before exploring the plugins. For…

This article shows how to create a Python package documentation with code reference via mkdocs-material. This documentation framework is beautiful out of the box, powerful but simple to configure and customise, and it uses Markdown! It offers a great alternative to the popular Sphinx docs. There are a lot of…

An overview of Sentinel-5P and Level-2 & Level-3 processing explained — Air pollution rapidly increases the risk of environmental health problems, affecting society in all parts of the developed and developing worlds. Recent findings show if you live within 50 meters of a major road, your risk of lung cancer can increase by up to 10%. …

This tutorial lets you train a land cover classification model with high-resolution Dronedeploy UAV imagery using fastai and Google Colab. No requirements, in-browser, with a GPU. Dronedeploy recently released the “DroneDeploy Machine Learning Segmentation” dataset and baseline model. The dataset consists of super crisp 10cm resolution UAV images for 51…

This Howto gives step for step instructions on setting up a Python 3 environment on Windows with gdal, rasterio, geopandas and other essential geospatial libraries. Installing Python 3.7 with Anaconda for Windows Uninstall any remaining Python Anaconda installations via Start > “Apps & features”. Download the Python 3.7 - 64-Bit Graphical Installer from the Anaconda website. Install…

Just a couple of JupyterLab & Notebook features that I didn’t know a year ago but am now using a lot. Cell execution history As long as your Kernel is active, the code of each executed cell is stored in this input history list. …