Opening a Legacy of Data
For the 2024 SURF Research Day I presented a Pecha Kucha on a project to recover data off of legacy data formats, I recorded the presentation and uploaded to YouTube.
Making My Own Stamen Watercolor
Every year I make a wildlife photo book for my close friends and family highlighting my best wildlife photos of the previous year. I make the book in ArcGIS Pro using two sets of data driven pages, maps and photo pages. The map pages show the viewer where each photo...
Stoomtreindagen 2023
Stoom Stichting Nederland (SSN) had their annual Steam Train Days (Stoomtreindagen) on 7 & 8 October 2023, and I went on the 8th. I arrived in the morning at Gouda, and rode the 11:20 train to the SSN depot near Kralingse Bos in Rotterdam, stayed for two hours and...
How to Make a Photo Book in ArcGIS Pro
I make a wildlife photo book for my close friends and family every year, and for the past two years it has been with the data driven pages in ArcGIS Pro. In this video I show you how I go from Lightroom to ArcGIS Pro to make a beautiful pages with information...
Prisma AI Photogrammetry
Can you perform photogrammetry on AI reprocessed images? Yes you can! I was recently showing my boss how to do photogrammetry, and we captured this rock with our cell phones as an example. I processed my photos with the Prisma AI app, which will use AI to reprocess...
Mushrooms in the Veluwezoom
It is mushroom season in the Netherlands, and this past weekend there were plenty in Nationaal Park Veluwezoom. On my hike along the NS Wandelroute Dieren to Rheden, I found several prime examples, taking photos and making some 3D models. I captured the basic photos...
Marieholmsskogen Layered Quartz
Recently I was hiking in Marieholmsskogen Nature Reserve in Jöngköping Sweden and came across some rocks with layers of what I believe was quartz, so I captured them quickly with photogrammetry. There were two rocks, the first you come across on the trail has many...
UU Data Privacy Handbook
For the past year at Utrecht University I have been contributing to the Privacy Handbook project as a reviewer. The primary writer, Dorien Huijser, organized a great group of privacy professionals and support staff, monthly meetings with healthy discussions and...
Amersfoort Koppelpoort
My family was visiting, and as a tourist outing we went to Amersfoort, the second largest town in Utrecht province, to have a picnic lunch and see the historic Koppelpoort. We had plenty of time in the day, so I took the opportunity to make a 3D model of the...
Replica Altar of Viradecdis near Bunnik
In the spring, summer and fall after work on days I rent a bike at Utrecht Centraal I like to take long meandering routes back to the station. Near Bunnik, south of the Utrecht Science Park,...