Category Archives: sdi

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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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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Open source software and development cooperation

Posted on 17/04/2012 by ragnvald

Open Source software as part of development cooperation is not a matter of principle. Choosing software in development cooperation projects is about finding good software tools to help you do the job. The chances of doing a project on a … Continue reading →

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Parameter standardization for SQL fed queries through WMS/WFS?

Posted on 14/03/2012 by ragnvald

Web map services are not straightforward any more. Some are based on complex queries to database like Oracle, MSSQL and PostGIS. This makes it possible for the services to provide highly specialized data views to their clients. Sometimes this is … Continue reading →

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Timor Leste – environmental data review workshop

Posted on 07/03/2012 by ragnvald

The 6th of March as part of the Norwegian Petroleum Assistance Program together with DNMA I contributed to a workshop to be held at the Arbiru Hotel in Dili, Timor Leste. The intended outcome was to contribute to a process … Continue reading →

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Environmental Spatial Data Infrastructure – technology

Posted on 23/02/2012 by ragnvald

Establishing the basics for handling environmental spatial data relies on proper organization of the data into repositories where it is stored and prepared for dissemination. This article points to how such a structure could be made using geoserver, geonetwork, WordPress, … Continue reading →

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