Academic
New PhD, a collab between IBM Research, SDR-UK’s own Geographic and Imagery Data Services to explore using vision foundation models & high resolution imagery of the Liverpool City Region. If this sounds like you (or a friend!), all info here!
Getting excited for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, to happen in Vienna in just over a week! I’ll be there Sunday to Thursday, who else is coming? hit me up if you’d like to talk all things Imago or just catch up!
The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking: A sketch from my talks in China
It’s never been a better time to use something we’ve never needed more
🔗 OSMlanduse a dataset of European Union land use at 10 m resolution derived from OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2
"Geospatial AI for Land Use" (my talk at OECD's WPTI'25)
What I told the OECD is worth watching in AI for land use
Headed to GISRUK’25. Not presenting, chairing, paneling or anything official, just taking it all in as a consumer this time. Hit me up if you want to talk Imago, satellites, cities… or just say hi! 👋
🔗 Formalising the urban pattern language: A morphological paradigm towards understanding the multi-scalar spatial structure of cities
New episode of the #GLaD podcast just dropped, Time (mis)management. Everything you always wanting to know (or not) about why we’re always late, and maybe that’s OK…
Headed to Detroit for the #AAG2025. Excited to spend a week with fellow Geography nerds in one of the most interesting urban stories of the XXth Century! Catch me at the sessions (image via Rachel, thanks!) we’re organising w/ Rachel Franklin, Elizabeth Delmelle and Isabelle Nilsson. Come say hi!
Imago the SDR-UK Imagery Data Service, is looking for a lead Research Software Engineer to help us design, build and run the tech platform that’ll power the service. Join us to make satellite data more useful, usable and used! https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Senior-Software-Engineer/1182366701/
🗞️ Making Satellite Data Mainstream: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for remote sensing experts [Industry Profiles and Activities] URL
By Aravind Ravichandran on IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (11 December 2024).
Plenty of interesting points here. My favorite one is the focus on the boring but necessary aspects required to push adoption beyond the “usual suspects”. Very much an Imago theme.