I like bird watching, and I would like to improve my skills in recognizing bird sounds, by recording bird sounds. Below some recordings of birds I often hear in the region I live.
Programs like R and GRASS GIS are incredible powerfull. But occasionally you'll need a functionality that is not available yet. Luckily, depending on the kind of functionality, it isn't terribly difficult to create your own scripts. In the past years I have created a few scripts that I hope are useful to others as well.
Throughout the years I have used a wide range of open source GIS, database and statistical software both for personal and professional use. In order not to forget newly learned techniques or tricks I try to jot down some notes whenever I have learned something new. And occassionally, I write them down on my blog, in the hope that they come in handy one day for somebody else.
Agricultural research, development projects, conservation prioritization; it all has a spatial component. In geographic information system (GIS) analysis, a crucial step is to link knowledge to location.