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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 Snakes and Ladders of Ecosystem Services
The trend towards applying economic value to forest ecosystems is contentious. While the valuing of the processes of nature (“ecosystem…
Ecosystem services explained in 90 secs
Having discovered Powtoon, I’ve now made another one. This time, with my elder son’s voice over, we’ve made a little…
An extract from my eBook: “Chapter 4: Two things that gives remote sensing a bad name”
Here is an extract from my recent eBook, Thirteen Short Chapters on Remote Sensing. It is the first part of…
Origami Carbon Cycle Infographic
OK, strictly speaking it’s not origami, since there are no folds, but here is a visualisation of the global carbon…
Six good things about petrol
I hate petrol [1]. As a fossil fuel its combustion contributes CO2 to the atmosphere, and so contributes to climate…
“Artists invent peculiar way of saving trees”
A great new video from Malawi and some good coverage in the Daily Times newspaper: “Artists invent peculiar way of saving…
Meeting a childhood icon – my 2018 personal highlight
(Commemorating 2018, here is an account of one of my year’s highlights from October). Given that it used to take…
Free Remote Sensing e-Books – 7 April 2017
For the benefit of a training programme I’m involved with in Zambia, and for my upcoming MSc class on Introduction…
Still… imag(in)ing a world without trees
Trees lost from familiar works of art… still one of my most popular blog posts after more than three years.…
Edinburgh’s Ecosystem Ecosystem
It is said that “innovation ecosystems” allow for the full exploitation of the positive sum relationships (symbiosis) between actors who…
101 Top Tips for PhD students
My newest eBook is available to download for FREE today only: This book aims to summarise advice I have given…
4 Day Course on Radar Remote Sensing: 20-24 April
I am now making my Introduction to Radar Remote Sensing training course available to outside participants. This popular MSc module is intended…
“Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing” – now an eBook
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…
Spock: Science *and* adventure
To mark the sad passing of Leonard Nimoy today, I publish a short essay I wrote 20 years ago as…