On Friday 22nd October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Shridhar Jawak of SIOS. to present his webinar entitled ‘Remote sensing systems for polar applications’. The talk concluded our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Dr. Jawak is a Remote Sensing Officer (Sr. Adviser) at the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), Longyearbyen, Norway. SIOS […]
Previous blogs on this site have highlighted the strengths and advantages of Docker. Docker is a great utility tool that allows ‘containerisation’ of a very wide range of applications, where the containers are used to build images that can be shared, running applications in a way that seals them off from the rest of your computer. This […]
On Friday 1st October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Scott Ensign and Shannon Hicks of The Stroud Water Research Center. to present their webinar entitled ‘The Three Ingredients for Scaling-Up Water Sensor Networks: People, Platform, and Protocols’. The talk continued our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Scott Ensign is Vice President and Research Scientist at […]
Docker, https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview, is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables separation of ‘containerised’ applications from local computing infrastructure. It’s a popular way of preparing programmes to share with others (https://hub.docker.com) and to run on remote computers also. Using docker means not having to have complex software server applications installed locally. Instead […]