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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 […]

Downloading Sentinel-2 data

February 18, 2016JoachimEOX Maps

Sentinel-2 data is online for quite a while and now we would like to have a deeper look into how to get the L1C data. According to the tiling scheme discussed in the previous post, there are about 22,000 tiles […]

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 […]

Curved labels

December 2, 2015JoachimEOX Maps

Back in my cartography class, in the mid-2000s, we were told to avoid non-horizontal labels in digital maps where possible, in order not to lose the map’s legibility. While there is some truth in it, curved labels – carefully placed […]

3D Video awesomeness continued

November 24, 2015December 2, 2015Danielmapalupa

We are looking into creating new globe video visualizations with different datasets. We have another really nice example provided by NASA (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) which shows a 12 month cycle of plant life on earth. To get […]

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 […]

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 […]