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2026

14 posts

Date Post Categories
21 Aug 2026 The same thesis, in a different typeface Data Science, Research
11 Aug 2026 Two years, a full-time job, and a master’s Climate, General, Research
6 Aug 2026 The thesis, in LaTeX and in git Data Science, Research
31 Jul 2026 The defence that reframed the thesis Climate, Research
25 Jul 2026 What the reviewers actually said Climate, Data Science, Research
16 Jul 2026 Published: the paper is out in Remote Sensing Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
2 Jul 2026 Making research citable Data Science, Research
26 Jun 2026 NetCDF to H3: getting climate data into a join Climate, Data Science, GIS
21 May 2026 Measuring whether your own work reproduces Data Science, Research
19 Mar 2026 The dashboard nobody asked for Climate, Data Science, Research
8 Feb 2026 Migrating a Squarespace site to Quarto General
28 Jan 2026 precip-index: fit once, not every month Climate, Data Science, Research
15 Jan 2026 Documenting a research project so someone else can run it Data Science, Research
9 Jan 2026 Sentinel-1 flood mapping you can argue with Climate, GIS, Remote Sensing
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2025

18 posts

Date Post Categories
31 Dec 2025 csv2gpkg: 184 million buildings, 250,000 at a time Data Science, GIS
11 Dec 2025 Scoping a thesis: the questions I answer with no Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
30 Nov 2025 30 Day Map Challenge, 2025 Remote Sensing, GIS
16 Oct 2025 The twenty-three hour day: satellite and gauge calendars Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
25 Sep 2025 Global EDDI in Earth Engine, by precomputing the expensive half Climate, Data Science, GIS
18 Sep 2025 Why bias correction cannot fix your correlation Climate, Data Science, Research
14 Aug 2025 The bugs that never raised an exception Data Science, Research
3 Jul 2025 Where the heavy-rain skill curve stops Climate, Data Science, Research
15 Jun 2025 Admin boundaries: drawing each border only once Data Science, GIS
15 May 2025 Dry days and detection: every improvement costs something Climate, Data Science, Research
24 Apr 2025 Forty gigabytes that cannot live in git Data Science, Research
27 Mar 2025 The CNN that refuses to help where gauges are thin Climate, Data Science, Research
12 Mar 2025 Earth Engine has no rename Data Science, GIS, Remote Sensing
4 Mar 2025 SPI in xclim: fifty-five minutes to twenty-four seconds Climate, Data Science, Research
28 Feb 2025 Word Clock Data Science, General
13 Feb 2025 TensorFlow will not install, and it is not your fault Data Science, Research
6 Feb 2025 EDDI, a drought index that never looks at rainfall Climate, Data Science, Research
23 Jan 2025 Two convolutions and fifty million parameters Climate, Data Science, Research
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2024

21 posts

Date Post Categories
10 Dec 2024 Linear scaling: start with the dumbest thing that works Climate, Data Science, Research
7 Nov 2024 Thirty-one metrics into one number Climate, Data Science, Research
15 Oct 2024 NetCDF that other tools can actually read Data Science, GIS, Research
2 Oct 2024 Finishing the HarvardX data science certificate Data Science
11 Sep 2024 The tail that quantile mapping flattens Climate, Data Science, Research
27 Aug 2024 Two ways to cut night lights into six classes Data Science, GIS, Remote Sensing
30 Jul 2024 How to read a Taylor diagram Climate, Data Science, Research
27 Jun 2024 Correct the parameters, not the data Climate, Data Science, GIS, Research
25 Jun 2024 Rainfall to flood probability: two numbers decide everything Climate, Data Science
25 May 2024 xkcd style for Country map General, GIS
23 May 2024 xkcd style for LSEQM illustration General, Climate
3 May 2024 Skip PEARSON fitting on climate-indices python package Remote Sensing, Climate
16 Apr 2024 Utilizing CUDA General
9 Apr 2024 Three datasets, three different truths Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
19 Mar 2024 L-moments, and why ordinary moments let you down Climate, Data Science, Research
20 Feb 2024 Ten days: why the dekad is the right time step Climate, Research
6 Feb 2024 Why Indonesia is the hardest place on earth to measure rain Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
26 Jan 2024 Two kinds of zonal statistics in Earth Engine Data Science, GIS, Remote Sensing
25 Jan 2024 Maximizing Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 AMD General
24 Jan 2024 Drought Propagation Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
3 Jan 2024 Firmware upgrade on Thuraya SatSleeve for iPhone General
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2023

22 posts

Date Post Categories
15 Oct 2023 Hourly Humidity Data Remote Sensing, Climate
7 Sep 2023 Annual maximum daily rainfall, and the day it fell Climate, Data Science, GIS
25 Aug 2023 A certified GISP General
24 Aug 2023 Monthly mosaic of modified Radar Vegetation Index Remote Sensing
22 Aug 2023 Parsing BMKG’s daily climate data Climate
11 Aug 2023 SPI-based drought characteristics Remote Sensing, GIS, Climate
2 Jul 2023 Fourier regression model to generate monthly to daily temperature data Research, Climate
16 Jun 2023 Regression analysis with dummy variables Data Science, Climate
14 Jun 2023 Sentinel-1 modified Radar Vegetation Index Remote Sensing
26 May 2023 Second-order Markov chain model to generate time series of occurrence and rainfall Research, Climate
25 May 2023 Impact of climate change in cities Research, Climate
15 Apr 2023 Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) for Flood Risk Assessment Data Science, Climate
1 Apr 2023 Visualising the WRF output Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
29 Mar 2023 Monitoring dry and wet season in South Sudan Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
15 Mar 2023 PyCPT for Subseasonal Forecasts in Indonesia Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
7 Mar 2023 Experimental climatological rainfall zone Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
6 Mar 2023 PyCPT config and notebook Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
28 Feb 2023 Unit Hydrographs Climate
15 Feb 2023 SBR Market Day 2023: Demon Slayer colours on canvas General
10 Feb 2023 Install the WRF Model in WSL2 Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
31 Jan 2023 Descriptive statistics analysis using climate data Remote Sensing, Climate
28 Jan 2023 History of climate modeling Research, Climate
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2022

5 posts

Date Post Categories
3 Aug 2022 Heat wave duration index Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
1 May 2022 Maximizing Thinkpad T480 General
19 Mar 2022 Batch task execution in Google Earth Engine Code Editor Remote Sensing
17 Feb 2022 MODIS LST Explorer Remote Sensing, Climate
2 Jan 2022 How’s 2021 rainfall in Indonesia? Remote Sensing, Climate
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2021

14 posts

Date Post Categories
11 Dec 2021 Mean annual temperature and number of hot days in a year Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
14 Nov 2021 TerraClimate and Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
1 Sep 2021 Batch download 30-minutes rainfall data from multiple coordinates and dates Remote Sensing, Research
30 Aug 2021 Upgrade the MBP MC724 Early 2011 General
24 Aug 2021 QGIS auto mapping GIS
20 Aug 2021 Farewell WFP! General
18 Jun 2021 Visualize daily weather forecast from GFS using Google Earth Engine Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
11 Jun 2021 Ninth year and the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate General
25 May 2021 HP CLJ Pro MFP M181fw supply error message General
16 Apr 2021 How to get daily rainfall forecast data from GFS? (Part 2) Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
13 Apr 2021 How to get daily rainfall forecast data from GFS? (Part 1) Climate, Remote Sensing, Research
11 Mar 2021 Today - a year ago General
25 Jan 2021 Calculate SPI using monthly rainfall data in GeoTIFF format Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
19 Jan 2021 Setup your machine to be GIS ready! Remote Sensing, General, GIS, Climate
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2020

16 posts

Date Post Categories
10 Dec 2020 GeoTIFF to NetCDF file with time dimension enabled and CF-Compliant Research, Climate
9 Nov 2020 A Reason For Being General
1 Nov 2020 30 Day Map Challenge, 2020 Remote Sensing, GIS
8 Oct 2020 La Niña and Indonesia context Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
29 Aug 2020 Kriging and IDW interpolation in GEE Remote Sensing, GIS, Climate
21 Jul 2020 Number of dry and wet-spell Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
10 Jul 2020 Calculate SPI using CHIRPS data Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
6 Jul 2020 Calculate SPI using IMERG data Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
30 Jun 2020 Monthly weather data from ERA5 and FLDAS Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
5 May 2020 30-minutes rainfall and landslide research Remote Sensing, Climate, GIS, Research
23 Apr 2020 Vulnerable groups in COVID-19 Remote Sensing, GIS, Research
9 Apr 2020 Historical flood occurrence Remote Sensing, GIS, Research
11 Mar 2020 Covid-19 and WFH General
9 Mar 2020 72-hours assessment workshop in Vanuatu General, Travel
6 Feb 2020 Paddy harvesting and planting area 2019 Remote Sensing, Research
2 Jan 2020 Jakarta flood 2020 Remote Sensing, GIS, Climate
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2019

10 posts

Date Post Categories
25 Dec 2019 Dry and Start of Rainy Season in Timor-Leste 2019/2020 Remote Sensing, GIS, Research, Climate
9 Nov 2019 Visit to DLR and WFP Innovation Accelerator Research, Travel
8 Nov 2019 Global GIS Workshop 2019 GIS, Travel
2 Nov 2019 SF Innovation Bootcamp 2019 Research, Travel
14 Sep 2019 Innovation in humanitarian crisis meeting Travel, General
27 Jul 2019 Technical engagement workshop in Beijing General, Travel
8 Jul 2019 Pixel-wise regression between rainfall and sea surface temperature Data Science, Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
31 May 2019 Summer in Mongolia General, Travel
22 Apr 2019 Surface buffer GIS
26 Jan 2019 Extreme winter in Mongolia General, Travel
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2018

6 posts

Date Post Categories
11 Sep 2018 DSSAT training in Chiang Mai, 2018 Travel, Research, Climate
6 Jun 2018 Food accessibility for Rohingya refugees Remote Sensing, GIS, Research
29 Apr 2018 Visiting Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar Travel, General
10 Apr 2018 Telegram group for GIS user in Indonesia Remote Sensing, GIS
2 Apr 2018 Climate expertise in the humanitarian field General, Climate
6 Feb 2018 VAMPIRE won 2017 Innovation Challenge General
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2017

4 posts

Date Post Categories
13 Dec 2017 OpenStreetMap Mapathon in Atambua General
24 Nov 2017 OpenStreetMap GeoWeek 2017 General
2 Aug 2017 Blending Satellite Precipitation and Gauge Observations Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
16 May 2017 List of free satellite-based products and geospatial data on internet Remote Sensing, GIS
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2016

5 posts

Date Post Categories
5 Dec 2016 Standing crowd density, 2 Desember 2016 GIS
27 Sep 2016 Satellite-based monitoring of growing season Remote Sensing, GIS, Research
10 Aug 2016 How long will I live? Data Science
10 May 2016 2016 GIS for Sustainable World Conference GIS, Travel
2 Apr 2016 So fun Aerial Bold! Remote Sensing, General
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2015

1 post

Date Post Categories
1 Aug 2015 2015 ESRI User Conference GIS, Travel
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2014

2 posts

Date Post Categories
16 Dec 2014 OSM use case: accessibility mapping GIS, Research
15 Sep 2014 Kelas Inspirasi Bogor 2 General
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2013

3 posts

Date Post Categories
11 Sep 2013 Menginstall “GDAL/OGR for Python” di Windows GIS
15 Apr 2013 Cloudless satellite image Remote Sensing
2 Apr 2013 MBTiles map GIS
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2012

3 posts

Date Post Categories
12 Jun 2012 Menggunakan fungsi ArcPy melalui Python non-ArcGIS GIS
11 Jun 2012 First day at WFP General
4 Mar 2012 Banjir Tangse di akhir Februari 2012 General
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2011

5 posts

Date Post Categories
10 Aug 2011 First try using TileMill and TileStream GIS
1 Jun 2011 ILO Basic Operational GIS for Road Assessment (Part 3) GIS
1 May 2011 ILO Basic Operational GIS for Road Assessment (Part 2) GIS
28 Apr 2011 ILO Basic Operational GIS for Road Assessment (Part 1) GIS
10 Feb 2011 Back to Aceh (again) GIS
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2010

3 posts

Date Post Categories
15 Dec 2010 Using Google to disseminate information during 2010 Tsunami in Mentawai Islands General
1 Nov 2010 2010 Mentawai Tsunami and Earthquake GIS
20 Apr 2010 West Sumatra Earthquake Response 2009 GIS
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2009

2 posts

Date Post Categories
21 Nov 2009 Web Map Interface GIS
5 Oct 2009 Landmark survey in TLS GIS
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2008

3 posts

Date Post Categories
25 Dec 2008 Potential soil loss Remote Sensing, GIS, Research
30 Nov 2008 Paddy’s growth and development model, and economic value of farming system GIS, Research, Climate
9 Nov 2008 Model simulasi penyakit busuk daun tanaman kentang Research, Climate
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2007

2 posts

Date Post Categories
15 Dec 2007 GIS for immunization activities GIS
10 Feb 2007 Automatic Coordinate Register System Remote Sensing
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2006

6 posts

Date Post Categories
21 Dec 2006 Jacub Rais Award Remote Sensing, GIS, Research
9 Nov 2006 Sistem Peringkat Bahaya Kebakaran Remote Sensing, GIS, Research, Climate
12 Aug 2006 Numerical random search Research, Climate, Data Science
23 Jul 2006 Multi Person Decision Making Research, Climate, Data Science
20 Jul 2006 How to calculate the Fire Weather Index in Indonesia Research, Climate
10 Mar 2006 Sarjana Meteorologi General
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2005

3 posts

Date Post Categories
10 Jun 2005 Magang di TISDA, BPPT GIS, Research, Climate
27 Mar 2005 Termodinamika dalam pertanian rumahkaca Research, Climate
8 Jan 2005 Satelit Geostasioner Remote Sensing, Research, Climate
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2004

4 posts

Date Post Categories
8 Jul 2004 Model biomassa dan neraca air Research, Climate
22 May 2004 Pendugaan deret hari kering Research, Climate
27 Apr 2004 Model pendugaan biomassa tanaman padi Research, Climate
3 Jan 2004 Menghitung radiasi matahari Research, Climate
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2003

6 posts

Date Post Categories
10 Dec 2003 Anak UMPTN memang beda! General
25 Nov 2003 Mekanika - gerak dalam dua dimensi Research, Climate
20 Nov 2003 Makalah Dasar Agronomi Research, Climate
28 Oct 2003 Pengukuran Suhu Climate, Research
16 Oct 2003 Menduga distribusi ukuran butir hujan Climate, Data Science
8 Oct 2003 Halo! General
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