At the Neptun Waterprice 2013. Photo by Elin Högström.The Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation (GEO) where I work is located in central Vienna. I share office with Markus who works on drought issues and Richard who's project manager. None of them do much programming, which is otherwise the case for most people here. It's a good environment to be in when you want to develop those skills, which I do.

 

My background is otherwise Earth Science and Physical Geography: for my bachelor and masters thesis, respectively, I did remote sensing of ice sheet surface melt (Greenland) and worked on patterned ground morphology (Abisko). Before coming to Vienna, I also worked at Uppsala University, with teaching and research.

 

My masters thesis concerned subglacial water detection via remote sensing techniques and I mainly worked with Matlab. It was my first encounter with any programming. Matlab is pretty similar to IDL (Interactive Data Language), which is much used here at GEO. IDL is a vectorized, numerical and interactive high-level language designed specifically for scientific programming and analysis, including image processing. In addition to Matlab and IDL, I also use ENVI (ENvironment for Visualizing Images), which is a software application for processing and analyzing geospatial imagery, as well as ArcGIS for some applications.

 

That is all for todays work presentation.
The top photo shows Markus (left) last week when his research project won the Neptun Waterprice 2013. The bottom one is a screen print illustrations of some weather data plotting in IDL (right) and ENVI image analysis (left).