EOMasters Newsletter #012

03/12/2023

In this Issue:

 

EOMasters News

  • Thoughts of a Dev - Is it worth it?

     

EO and RS News

  • Earth Observation Data Visualisation Good Practice Guide

  • Upcoming ESA Highlights 2024

  • MIGARS 2024 - Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing

     

Software, Tools and Services

  • Open Layers, GDAL and QGIS Updates

  • Free Greenhouse Gas Tracker

 

Beyond EO

  • Candy Crush Is Complicated

 

EOMasters News

Thoughts of a Dev - Is it worth it?

As a developer, I often face a dilemma: should I spend more time and effort on optimizing the user experience of a feature, or should I move on to the next task and deliver more functionality? This is a question that I’m sure many developers can relate to, and I want to share my thoughts and experience on this topic. 

 

  • Thoughts of a Dev - Is it worth it?

EO and RS News

Earth Observation Data Visualisation Good Practice Guide

Discover tips for using EO data in storytelling in this guide funded by the European Commission Copernicus programme and organised by EUMETSAT. It covers how to

  • craft impactful stories

  • access and tailor EO data for storytelling

  • make data visualization effective

 

 

  • Earth Observation Data Visualisation Good Practice Guide

Upcoming ESA Highlights 2024

The ESA has published the highlights which will take place in 2024. Two of the listed highlights are important for the EO community.

  • May: EarthCARE satellite launch  

  • Summer: Proba-3 launch

 

  • ESA’s highlights in 2024

 

MIGARS 2024 - Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing

MIGARS aims to bring together researchers, industry professionals, and students from around the world to share and showcase recent developments at the interface of machine learning, computational science, and remote sensing, and their implementations in agriculture, forestry, geosciences, and land and water monitoring from space. The call for Abstracts is now open.

 

  • MIGARS 2024 - Call for Abstracts now open

 

Software, Tools and Services

Open Layers, GDAL and QGIS Updates

Several GIS and remote sensing software, tools and services have been updated.

 

 

  • Release v8.2.0 · openlayers/openlayers (github.com)

  • GDAL Released: v3.8.0

  • QGIS Plugin Updates Sept-Nov 2023

Free Greenhouse Gas Tracker

Kayrros, a French satellite imagery analysis provider, launched a free version of its global methane tracking map end of November. The map uses data from ESA’s Sentinel-5P satellite and a sensor on the ISS to show daily snapshots of methane emissions. The map identifies 5,645 methane super-emitters worldwide, or sources that release methane at a much higher rate than normal.

 

 

  •  Satellite imagery analysis firm launches free greenhouse gas tracker

Beyond EO

Candy Crush Is Complicated

Candy Crush Saga is popular game where the player tries to form chains of identical candies by swapping them on a grid.

A proof by computer scientist Toby Walsh that Candy Crush is among the hard problems.

Mathematical problems can be categorised based on how hard they are to solve or check by a computer. Some problems are easy (P), some are hard (NP-hard), and some are in between (NP)

Candy Crush belongs to the NP category. The mathematical difficulty of Candy Crush may explain why it is so engaging, not to say addictive, and challenging for players.

It also means that there is no efficient algorithm that can always find the optimal solution for any level of the game.

 

  • Candy Crush Is Complicated - Even from a Mathematical Point of View

 

Newsletter Archive

For past editions of this newsletter, you can visit the archive.

 

 

That's it for this issue. I hope you enjoyed this collection of news. Stay tuned for the next edition, which will arrive in your inbox in about two weeks.

 

 

Tschüss and Goodbye!

Marco 

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