Stephan Meißl

s2maps.eu stumbling into half a million visitors

September 25, 2017Stephan MeißlEOX General, EOX::Maps

How it happened and what we learned. On Friday, August 18, thanks to Joachim’s great work, we announced our worldwide Sentinel-2 cloudless map and were quite happy about a couple of hundreds of visitors over the next days. First global […]

Nautical EOXploration

May 6, 2016February 23, 2017Stephan MeißlEOX General

The EOX team went on an inspiring sailing trip to southern Croatia. Enjoy some impressions we don’t want to hide from our dear readers. The next post will be more technical again, promised. Thanks to everybody for the great days […]

Videos in 3D

November 19, 2015December 2, 2015Stephan Meißlmapalupa

Video, on a globe? in 3D? interactive? in the browser? Yes we can! Best in Chrome. NASA last year released a video (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) showing how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe from […]

Top 5 trends in EO data usage

September 12, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

In the following I’m going to summarize and present my personal view on current trends in today’s access and usage of Earth Observation (EO) data. As this is a subjective analysis I invite you, dear reader, to share your thoughts […]

ESA’s Spot 1-5 via SM-Cat

September 1, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

The Static Map Catalogue introduced by Fabian in the last post is now used by ESA to also show their Spot 1-5 collections. The other available collections are ESA’s Landsat TM and ETM archives. Please read Fabians excellent intro if […]

FOSS4G-Europe 2015

July 21, 2015August 19, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

Last week the second FOSS4G-Europe conference took place in Como, Italy following two FOSS4G-CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) in Prague and Bucharest. It was a huge success with over 400 participants which means sold out already weeks in advance. Can […]

Sentinel-2

July 7, 2015December 22, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

Just two weeks ago the European satellite Sentinel-2 has been launched into orbit. Sentinel-2 is going to observe the Earth’s surface with an optical camera. In fact the first images have already been acquired and sent down to Earth just […]

FOSS4G-Europe 2014

July 18, 2014August 19, 2015Stephan MeißlEOX General

Bremen, 15.-17. July 2014 Last week Joachim and Stephan went to the FOSS4G-Europe conference to present some highlights of the recent work in EOX and to meet old friends and Open Source enthusiasts. On Thursday Joachim presented the CryoSphere service […]

Successful ngEO CDR V2

June 4, 2014February 29, 2016Stephan MeißlEOX General

Toulouse, 4. June 2014 From June 4th to 5th the successful ngEO CDR V2 meeting took place in Toulouse. CDR stands for Critical Design Review and is meant to finalize the software design. EOX is responsible for the so-called Browse […]

EOxServer participating in SOCIS

June 1, 2014February 29, 2016Stephan MeißlEOX General

1. June 2014 EOxServer has been selected as mentoring organization in the ESA Summer of Code in Space 2014 program. We’re looking forward to great improvements during the coding period.