Category Archives: mapping

Sentinel 2 for the environment – listening, structuring and remembering

Posted on 05/03/2013 by ragnvald

The ESA Sentinel 2 satellites will provide the global community of environmental scientists and managers with fantastic terrestrial multi-spectral high-resolution optical data. ESA will give the general public and partners with access to these data sets. The respective users/countries will then have … Continue reading →

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Drones in conservation – some thoughts

Posted on 27/12/2012 by ragnvald

The term drone is usually associated with unmanned planes used for military surveillance and aggressive activities. The latter is something we as conservationists, scientists, environmental managers and others would rather not be associated with. Surveillance is a term slightly associated with our own trade. We call … Continue reading →

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Clearinghouse for the environment – the scaffolding (I)

Posted on 10/08/2012 by ragnvald

In our work with development cooperation GIS we have come to a point where we find it necessary to establish an overall publication system for environmental information. We will do this together with some of our partners. The system, a clearinghouse, … Continue reading →

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The rise of an amateur architect

Posted on 05/06/2012 by ragnvald

Our family owns a house in the northern parts of Norway. The family spends around eight weeks there a year fishing, mowing the lawn, hiking, meeting family, eating good food and more. I have also spent a considerable part of … Continue reading →

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Men and maps – and women

Posted on 19/05/2012 by ragnvald

Many of us have seen those hilarious maps showing us “The world according to americans”, “The world according to Hungary” etc… You can even buy the maps at sites like Alphadesigner or Zazzle. Great fun and a friendly reminder about … Continue reading →

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Elevation models, climate change and fresh water ecology…

Posted on 22/04/2012 by ragnvald

A Digital Elevation Models (DEM) is a data set containing information about a terrains surface. In its most basic form it is a collection of geographical positions with associated elevation information. With this information it is possible to make visualizations … Continue reading →

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Timor Leste and OpenStreetMap

Posted on 26/02/2012 by ragnvald

A couple of weeks while planning a work related trip to Timor Leste I started looking at the OpenStreetMap (OSM) for Dili. On my last trip we drove along the coast to the west of Dili, then south to Suai … Continue reading →

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