Doing a review of the past year is such a great way to sum up accomplishments and formulate goals for the next year. Having such posts is also a nice way to be able to go back in time and remember what were the big events of that year. Thus, this is a short summary…

What my friends think I do: – travel the world, write super advanced stuff What my mom thinks I do: – study something, was it called physical geography? What society thinks I do: – work on solving that climate change problem – spend tax money What I thought I would do: – have great adventures…

Originally intended for this blog, I submitted the manuscript to Your Middle East and got it published! Read it here: http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/business/a-brief-guide-to-climate-change-cop21-and-the-middle-east_37011

My dear fiance introduced me to an article today where 20 PhD’s had been asked to provide a dumbed down summary of their theses so that “ordinary people” would understand them. One of my favorites were this: 17. People sometimes think about animals as if they’re people. People like those animals a little more than…

A few weeks ago I got an e-mail from someone at my department (directed to all people at the department) that the GlobeLand30 dataset had become freely available. I’ve been looking for reliable land cover data for my study area since I started my project, and so far I’ve not found anything that has been…

Found some nice old soil maps of Iraq and the rest of the world at European Digital Archive of Soil Maps – EuDASM. They are from the mid 20th century, but soil types do not change that rapidly.  Have a look!

Last week I conducted my first supervised CART classification of a subset of my study area in eCognition. I based it on a set of training points, and allowed the classification to develop “signatures” based on the object’s mean reflectances, mean slope, standard deviation of NDVI (as a measure of homogeneity), asymmetry, border index (how…