This week we sit down with Elvin Slavik (Director of Esri R&D Center, Australia) to catch-up and talk about some general thoughts on technology.

News:

• Response to report on Ligado
• India pushing NaVIC
• Study shows climate change affecting world's lakes
• Google Maps now includes efficient EV routes
• Google Maps now includes augmented reality results
• New US center of population
• Planet moving into hyperspectral
• New additions to Galileo
• FCC De-orbit rules

Events:

• NEURISA Day is a conference hosted by New England URISA and will be held virtually on October 24 & 25, 2022. The theme this year is Creating Community Connections, which aims to showcase how important it is for us as a geospatial community to connect and engage. More information can be found here https://neurisa-day-2022-urisa.hub.arcgis.com/

News:

• Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan passes away
• FTC Sues data broker for tracking location information
• Newly published research shows Arctic lakes are drying up
• Hydrosat gets Tier 1 remote sensing license for thermal imaging
• Esri Small Nonprofit Organization Grant Initiative
• Geospatial Revolution: Mapping the Pandemic nominated for regional Mid-Atlantic Emmy

Topic:

• Geospatial Metaverse

• • NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH - AI, Metaverse, and Digital Humans

Events:

• Earth Science Week, October 9th - 15th
• International Geoethics Day, October 13th, 2022
• Geography Awareness Week, November 14-19th, 2022
• GIS Day, November 16th, 2022

News:

• Landsat 9 hand-off
• Google fined in Australia
• New USGS Director sworn in
• Artemis 1 going to the moon on Aug. 29th

Topic:

• Geographic connections for back to school season

Events:

• ICPARS2022 International Conference on Precision Agriculture and Remote Sensing: 20-21 September, Toronto CA
• RGS-IBG2022: 30 August to 2 September, Newcastle UK and online

News:

• OSM turns 18
• New Google Maps Functionality
• Critical Flaws in Chinese GPS Chip - US Government advises to stop using
• Xiaomi previews consumer-targeted smart glasses
• Storm chaser drones gathering data during hurricane season
• Rhine way lower than it should be (and way earlier than normal)
• UKHO Admiralty Maritime sunsetting paper charts after 222 years.
• SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with South Korea's first Moon mission

Events:

• ICMSEGARS2022: 09-10 December, New York

A look back at Landsat's 50 years on our 17th anniversary episode.

News:

• Esri UC - personal favorites
• FCC Proposes new definition for broadband
• OGC joins metaverse standards group
• FTC will address exploitation of location and health data
• First images from James Webb Space Telescope

Topic:

• This week Jesse asks questions about time in geospatial

Events:

• Geography2050: 17-18 November, New York
• GeoWeek 2023: 13-15 February, Denver
• AAG 2023: 23-27 March, Denver

News:

• Winners of the 2022 ArcGIS Online Competition for HS and MS students
• ArcGIS Pro 3.0 requires .net 6
• Ed license now includes Drone2Map Standard
• QGIS 3.26
• Smarty geocoding plug-in
• Drone data on demand service
• Projection trading cards

Topic:

• Web GIS is Modern GIS? - teaching GIS as web-based - where are we, what are positives/negatives, etc.

Events:

• geocom: 11 October, London

News:

• Xona testing GPS alternative demo satellite
• UK looking at PNT options
• Google's "Dynamic World" app
• Google Maps add Air Quality Index on iOS and Android
• Apple Maps expanding
• Airbus expanding data access through OneAtlas
• GeoTech Center updating GTCM, get involved
• BRICS countries developing data sharing satellite system

News:

• The Great American Rail-Trail and US Bicycle Route System
• Google ARCore Geospatial API
• Google's new camera will fit in any car
• NOAA Aids Largest-Ever West Coast Oyster Data Map

Topic:

• How to address imposter syndrome and the value of an elevator speech

Events:

• Teaching and Learning About the Anthropocene: June 21, Virtual
• Education Summit @ Esri UC: July 9–12, San Diego, CA
• Esri User Conference: July 11–15, San Diego, CA