Downstream Space Wars – When everyone is Super

Such growth is driving the need for exclusive content so that the platform providers can compete in what is fast becoming a very crowded market.

Flat Earth or Globe?

[This is a long post. If you don’t have the stamina, skip to the conclusion.] Occasionally I get embroiled in…

The trend towards applying economic value to forest ecosystems is contentious. While the valuing of the processes of nature (“ecosystem…

Having discovered Powtoon, I’ve now made another one. This time, with my elder son’s voice over, we’ve made a little…

Here is an extract from my recent eBook, Thirteen Short Chapters on Remote Sensing. It is the first part of…

OK, strictly speaking it’s not origami, since there are no folds, but here is a visualisation of the global carbon…

I hate petrol [1]. As a fossil fuel its combustion contributes CO2 to the atmosphere, and so contributes to climate…

A great new video from Malawi and some good coverage in the Daily Times newspaper: “Artists invent peculiar way of saving…

(Commemorating 2018, here is an account of one of my year’s highlights from October). Given that it used to take…

For the benefit of a training programme I’m involved with in Zambia, and for my upcoming MSc class on Introduction…

Trees lost from familiar works of art… still one of my most popular blog posts after more than three years.…

It is said that “innovation ecosystems” allow for the full exploitation of the positive sum relationships (symbiosis) between actors who…

My newest eBook is available to download for FREE today only: This book aims to summarise advice I have given…

I am now making my Introduction to Radar Remote Sensing training course available to outside participants. This popular MSc module is intended…

In 2005 I published my Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U4D8EJM). It is now available as a Kindle eBook. At…

To mark the sad passing of Leonard Nimoy today, I publish a short essay I wrote 20 years ago as…