So a quick post on how to get access the web-based data on rider timings for the RideLondon event. The idea is that you can access the cyclist timings, and then maybe do some statistics (or boost/depress your morale by looking at how your time compares to the wider ...

Recently, the USGS has closed their FTP download service for MODIS products, such as LAI, surface reflectance, etc. This is quite annoying, because I had a nice wget script that no longer works... So I decided to code a simple downloader in python that woud supersede my previous hacked together ...

This note details how to use parallel processing in python accessing shared memory. The usage case is when you have a process that reads in a lot of data, and where the data can be processed in parallel, such as when reading and processing images/stacks of images in a ...

Many networks of automated meteo stations are around. In some places, the data are easy to access and therefore use. In some others, you have to go through a number of hoops. In Andalusia, it's a mixed bag: a number of independent networks are available for agricultural and environmental ...

Quite often, one wants to generate some data at high resolution (say process some image or images) and then calculate some relevant spatial statistics at some other resolution. For example, you might want to process Landsat TM data at 30m resolution, and might want to aggregate it to a resolution ...