Avskyr du havet og lukten av råtten fisk? Blir du utrygg når du tenker på flo og fjære? Liker du deg i høyden? Liker du mygg og myr? Liker du geografi og skandinaviske rekorder? Da er denne artikkelen for deg! — Hvor er midtpunktet i Skandinavia? Dette er et spørsmål som dukket opp i familien for en del år siden. Min bror har en hytte i Rendalen og mente at hytta måtte ligge ganske nær Skandinavias midtpunkt? Rett eller galt? Familiens geograf tok saken.

Wilderness areas are fewer and more fragmented. Can we find wilderness using algorithms? Will it be enough to understand wilderness? — Trying to explain what wilderness is is not easy. Some use religion, others philosophy, politics, science or computers. …

Understanding the world by generalising it using grid cells. From details to knowledge. — Grid cells are excellent for generalising information. This story is about geocoding, generalisations and the availability of spatial datasets which can be used to present spatially referenced data with geographical information systems. It concludes with pointing at the excellent Zenodo website where processed files can be distributed.

The article gives detail on how to the Litchi app and DJI drones can be used to plan wildlife surveys. — A wildlife biologist is doing a survey where she need to establish a set of images from a bigger area. With the right methods one can make statistical assumptions about the total number of wildlife within the area. Doing it with drones does pose several challenges. …

Det er tidlig vår i den botaniske hagen. Jeg må samle de fem siste plantene til herbariet mitt for å få godkjent biologikurset. Jeg går rundt omkring på leting etter en tidlig vår. Men er ikke alene. To eldre rusler også rundt. Usynlig? Meg ser de ikke. De leier hender og setter seg på en benk. Hvite sneflekker på bakken. Smil. Hvitt hår. Ei hand stryker varsomt. Jeg leter videre — de gamle reiser seg. Ser seg stjålent rundt; og ser ingen. Kysser, for de ser ikke at noen ser.

I found a new garden in my digital neighbourhood. It has many names, digital ecosystem, data4sustainability — some call it the fourth wave of environmentalism. It is a vast garden — patches are greening. From where I am standing I can see some nice bushes. Here and there young trees…

Researchers, environmental managers, ecologists, researchers — we are all looking for a better perspective. Fieldwork, remote sensing and systemic understanding lets us piece together knowledge which in turn can be used to prioritize human interaction with our environment. All this knowledge represents generalizations. The paradox of generalisations is that they…

We humans are good at remembering places. With a little help from a map we are able to find back to places we visited decades ago. What if you could authenticate yourself without remembering passwords consisting of meaningless stream of characters? We already have several biometrically based authentications methods. Fingerprints…

Open Source software as part of development cooperation is not a matter of principle. Choosing software in development cooperation projects is about finding good software tools to help do the job. My suggestion in this text is that Open Source software in the long run will come out as the…