Rocker – Docker Containers for R

Dear all,

today I’d like to point to the Rocker project, which provides a suite of Docker images for particular tasks. Even though the Rocker initiative already exists since 2014 and I read about it once in a while, there were not many use cases for me to try it

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Using StaMPS/MTI for PSI Analysis – Part 3: StaMPS

Dear all,

I have to apologize for the long hiatus. I am busy finishing my PhD thesis, and some time-demanding projects at work.

However, as promised, I have managed to continue the StaMPS-workflow documentation. I think that StaMPS is quite demanding for inexperienced people (mostly students starting to work with PSI) who

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Orbital Reflector

Dear all,

after some time off we’re back – with some art:

On 3 December, Orbital Reflector (ORS-1) was launched aboard a Falcon-9 rocket, and will continue to orbit Earth for about two months. Orbital reflector is a  temporary satellite which does neither serve any scientific nor technical purpose. Rather, the installation

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Thesis offense

Dear readers,

as you might have noticed, we’ve been on a short hiatus. I have been busy finishing my PhD, and I eventually defended my thesis at the end of October.

While I haven’t been actively writing for the blog, I have collected several interesting topics I’d like to feature here –

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EO4Alps – The Alps from Space Workshop

Hi all,

I am currently attending the EO4Alps conference in Innsbruck, Austria. The objectives of this interesting workshop are:

  • Assessing the status and priority interests in the European Alpine Region for Earth Science, geo-information and operational monitoring;
  • Reviewing the main activities, projects and initiatives taking place in the different Alpine application

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xgBoost for landcover classification in R

My favourite supervised classification method for land cover classification until now was the very popular Random Forest. Recently however, I stumbled upon the xgBoost algorithm which made me very curious because of its huge success on the machine learning competition platform Kaggle where it has won several competitions. Since I

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