André Stumpf

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To give you a glimpse into the vast image data that #ESAEuclid is observing in its surveys, #ESA published a new set of images: a section of 2 weeks of observations, 132 deg² on the sky, that's 500x the area of the Moon, and zoom-ins.

Check out the images in our Euclid Blog, where you can also find a link to ESA's full release with high-res images and all explanations and background.

https://www.euclid-ec.org/euclids-first-large-piece-of-the-sky

#astronomy #astrodon #space #cosmology

2 years have passed and there the Biomass satellite launch is still pending (probably because Vega-C was grounded for quite some time?). Now scheduled for sometime 2025 https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass 
Biomass

@EvenRouault Can we add GPKG's coordinate precision which allows to map the position of an atom to the rant list? https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/365
Support for TWKB or other compact geometry encoding · Issue #365 · opengeospatial/geopackage

The vector data in geopackage is today encoded as WKB, a well-defined and well known way of formatting spatial geometries. However, since all coordinates are encoded as two 64bit double values, the...

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It has been ages since the last time I blogged. Here it is "Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$":
https://erouault.blogspot.com/2024/09/those-concepts-in-geospatial-field-that.html
Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$

Every domain has its baggage of concepts, which at first sight don't appear to be that terrible, but which are in practice. Let's start with...

@EvenRouault This is gold, thanks for sharing!
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Analysing satellite imagery effectively takes practice. We recently wrote up some of the basic mistakes to avoid when starting out in open source research… https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/04/25/oshit-seven-deadly-sins-of-bad-open-source-research/
OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research - bellingcat

Learning to recognise these widespread mistakes will help you judge the quality of open source analysis — or improve your own.

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explain xkcd

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl9FShX0mws

what? The Simpsons became reality.

Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain (live with London Symphony Orchestra @ London, 10.07.2024)

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Taxing great wealth to finance the ecological and social transition:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home