The trend in IT is currently dominated by terms like "Big Data", "Real-Time", "Fast Data", "Smart Data", ... GIS is no exception as most of the data out there can be…
Yesterday, the 21st of December 2016, was the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere. In other words, it is the day the sun is the lowest in the sky at…
Everyone who went cycling in Belgium knows that the famous quote from Jacques Brel "Le plat pays qui est le mien" is far from being true! Belgium is globally a flat…
Spatial Database battles exists since … the existence of spatial databases! Two most prominent spatial database in the GIS world are Oracle Spatial and PostgreSQL/PostGIS, both having advantages and disadvantages.…
The news of the beginning of the week was monopolized by the US presidential election. During the last few months, a lot of interactive maps flourished on the internet showing…
Sentinel-2 imageries can be used in a huge variety of applications. I was trying to figure out how these free data could be used in the monitoring of Earthquake damage. The…
With its very short revisiting period, Sentinel-2 satellite data make it possible to perform change detection operations of every point on Earth every 5 days at least. In this article, we're going to…
Belgium's petrol station! The South of Belgium is a beautiful place covered mostly with the region Ardennes - a forested landscape where Belgian used to go out at the weekends…
Ready for your GIS missions! [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="479"] I WANT (TO WORK FOR) YOU[/caption] It is a great pleasure to announce that themagiscian.com is now open for YOUR gis missions! We have now a…
Movebank.org is fabulous website that centralizes GPS data of tracked animals. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, the platform data are accessible to researchers from all over the world to study…
