Category: EOX General

vires.services launched

May 9, 2016February 8, 2017Gerhard TriebnigEOX General, EOxServer, VirES

VirES for Swarm – the latest offspring from our geospatial web technology workbench. The online tool lets you dive into the most up-to-date and accurate science of the Earth’s magnetic field. The operational service launches officially today at https://vires.services. The […]

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 […]

Visualizing Raster Data

February 24, 2016October 19, 2016Fabian SchindlerEOX General

As you may know, GeoTIFF images are a very common file format when dealing with geospatial raster data. Due to its versatility, it is used storing satellite data, as an intermediary file format in raster processing chains and as a […]

Understanding Sentinel-2 Satellite Data

December 24, 2015Christian SchillerEOX General

This is the first entry in a series of posts about how to use data from Europe’s Sentinel-2 satellites. Stay tuned as the remaining posts are going to be published over the next couple of months. As always, feedback is […]

VirES – Swarm and magnetic model data visualization

November 17, 2015November 17, 2015DanielEOX General

As briefly anticipated by Stephan in Top 5 trends in EO data usage I’m happy to give an extended sneak preview on the prototype implementations we have done as part of the VirES project. Especially now that it has been […]

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 […]

Sx-Cat – Part One: the Static Map Catalogue

August 19, 2015September 1, 2015Fabian SchindlerEOX General

I’m excited to introduce you to our newest software development: the Simple Online and the Static Map Catalogue (short: SO-Cat and SM-Cat; even shorter: Sx-Cat). In this post I will focus on the Static Map Catalogue, at a later time I will also show the Simple […]

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 […]