Author Archives: Parker Abercrombie

Serving WCS elevation data to World Wind using GeoServer

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Parker Abercrombie

I wrote a post earlier about how to configure GeoServer to serve elevation data to World Wind as a Web Map Service (WMS). Serving elevations over WMS is possible, but requires configuration on both the server and client. World Wind … Continue reading →

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Typeset SciDB queries in LaTeX

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Parker Abercrombie

I often use the listings package in LaTeX for formatting source code in documents. I recently needed to include some SciDB queries in a report that I wrote in LaTeX, so a put together a listing language definition file for … Continue reading →

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SciDB tips

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Parker Abercrombie

I’m working on a project that will use SciDB for an analysis of MODIS data. This post is a dumping ground for small things that I wish I had known at the start of this process. Most of these are … Continue reading →

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How to call an R function from C

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Parker Abercrombie

Last year I worked on an analysis project in which we needed to call a statistical function written in R from a C program. There are some great tools to integrate R and C++ (for example Rccp and Rinside), but … Continue reading →

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Serving BIL Elevation Data with Geoserver

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Parker Abercrombie

I’ve recently been looking into how to use the GeoServer map server to serve elevation data to the NASA World Wind virtual globe. It is possible to do this, but there are some complications. In this article I’m going to … Continue reading →

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First day in Morocco

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Parker Abercrombie

I arrived in Morocco today, via ferry from Spain. I’m spending the first night at a youth hostel in Tangier. First impressions are that Morocco is intense. So many people try to make a living off of tourists that you … Continue reading →

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Lost…er…’Off-route exploration’ in the Sierra Nevada

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Parker Abercrombie

I just finished a four day hiking trip in the Spanish Sierra Nevada with my Dutch friend Jurgen. I don’t really get Spanish trail maps. They use the same marking for a huge well groomed trail with suspension bridges over … Continue reading →

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Sunseed

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Parker Abercrombie

I’ve spent the last month doing volunteer work at Sunseed Desert Technology (www.sunseed.co.uk) in southern Spain (near Almeria). It’s a cool place, with friendly people. The work is quite varied. Cooking, gardening, laying tile, building (or more often repairing) stuff. … Continue reading →

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First week in Spain

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Parker Abercrombie

I arrived in Spain last Thursday, in Madrid. I hadn’t bothered to book a bed in advance, since it was mid-week during the off season. And of course I arrived in Madrid after a late night and a day of … Continue reading →

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Jampa Ling

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Parker Abercrombie

I’ve spent the last week working at the Jampa Ling Tibetan Buddhist center in exchange for room and board. There’s a community of about ten people here, and occasional guests. The center is kind of in the middle of Ireland, … Continue reading →

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