I’m now working for SkyTruth on an exciting environmental “Big Data” project, Global Fishing Watch. Just last week, a number of my colleagues published a paper in Science, which you can read about in this blog post I wrote. The key technology behind Global Fishing Watch is AIS – the “Automatic Identification System” that almost … Read more
When traveling across China by bicycle, I was amazed by how we seemed to pass a new power plant almost every day. I found myself wanting a map of where the power plants were in the country. Are they everywhere, or only where we were riding? I found an online database of power plants from … Read more
On Lindsey’s and my recent journey across Asia, I was sure to record every day on our Garmin GPS. This not only helped me get a few “King of the Mountains” on Strava, but more importantly, it allowed us to build a detailed map of our route. Using a Python library that parses Garmin .fit … Read more
I recently re-edited my film Ten Tips for Biking Eastern Europe to submit to the Banff Film Festival (yes, a reach, but why not?). I had to alter the film because the old version uses Google Earth to show our bike route, and this is, of course, copyrighted. So I had to make a non-copyrighted … Read more
I recently combined all of the GPS files from our ~1000-mile 26-day bike trip this past summer and uploaded them into Google Earth. The result is a path that you can “fly over” and follow. Google Earth also allowed me to plot an elevation profile of the trip. Unsurprisingly, our favorite parts are almost exactly … Read more