In Juli 2024, the 6th edition of “MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2024) and the 2nd edition of “Python Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2024) will be released. These new editions of the twin books are intensively revised and updated versions of the successful previous editions. The new editions have been adapted to new ..read more

The popular online course on data analysis in the geosciences will be taught bilingual using the two leading programming languages and development environments MATLAB and Python in parallel on 16–20 September 2024. The course is based on my books MATLAB Recipes for Earth Science (Springer 2021) and Python Recipes for Earth Sciences (Springer 2022), of which new ..read more

About four years ago, I published a post on reading meteorological data from a Netatmo weather station. Since then, Netatmo has changed the authentication process. Here is an update of my MATLAB scripts for the weather station. Reading meteorological parameters through a weather station connected to the Internet has gained great popularity. We use the ..read more

The German version of the 1th edition of Python Recipes for Earth Sciences is out. Thanks to the subject of SpringerSpektrum for the professional support in the realization of the project. From the book cover: Python wird in einer Vielzahl geowissenschaftlicher Anwendungen eingesetzt, z. B. bei der Verarbeitung von Bildern für die Fernerkundung, bei der ..read more

    Google Colab provides a hosted Jupyter Notebook service which makes collaborative coding with Python much easier. Here is a short introduction on how to use it with Google Drive and GitHub. A guest post by Francesco Ottaviani from Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”. Jupyter Notebook is a simplified notebook authoring application ..read more

In my book Signal and Noise, I use LEGO MINDSTORMS components alongside smartphones and other technical devices to demonstrate methods of data acquisition in the geosciences. Here is an update. Earth science observations often involve complex measurement procedures, highly specialized measuring devices, and sophisticated data processing. The design of geoscientific data-collection programs and experiments, their ..read more

The Community tab of the MathWorks website now offers the new AI Chat Playground. This allows you to transfer programming tasks to an AI – and try them out directly. At the beginning of my MATLAB-based courses, I first briefly introduce the MathWorks website, which provides all the necessary resources for MATLAB users that users ..read more

After 30 years of teaching statistical methods in the geosciences, I would like to give a few tips for our next generation. Back then, I was in awe of a term like chi-square test and kept my hands off it for a long time. However, I could not avoid complicated methods such as spectral analysis ..read more

The book “Python Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2022) is ranked 7th (Winter 2023/2024) in the Top 100 out of more than 4,600 books in Earth Sciences & Environment of Springer. The book “MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2021) is ranked 24th. Thanks to all readers for buying the books ..read more

On-screen digitizing is a widely-used image processing technique. While practical digitizer tablets exist in all formats and sizes, most people prefer digitizing vector data from the screen. Examples of this type of application include the digitizing of river networks and catchment areas on topographic maps, of the outlines of lithologic units on geological maps, of ..read more