• Google Immersive View
• Google's Scene Exploration isn't a landscape explorer…yet
• Close call for Sentinel 1A
• USGIF: new scholarships and working group to focus on diversity

Topic:

• This week we speak with Hannah Gunderman about the importance of data management for cultural geographers and qualitative data sources

Events:

• HxGN LIVE Global 2022: 20-23 June, Las Vegas
• CommercialUAV Expo: 6-8 Sept, Las Vegas
• GIS-Pro: 2-6 October, Boise, Idaho

News:

• Declaration on the future of the Internet
• A new letter regarding Ligado
• A Drone caught smuggling guns

Topic:

• Webmaps
  • MiniTokyo3D
  • WV511
  • Monterey aquarium
  • FlightAware
  • Birdcast live bird migration map
  • Chicago Crime Map
  • Nasa Earth at Night
  • #Onemilliontweetmap
  • Human Atlas
  • The National Map
  • NOAA C-CAP Land Cover Atlas
  • LandsatLook
  • U.S. Census Interactive Maps
  • San Diego Wildfire Emergency Map
  • Haiti Earthquake Map
  • OSM Show Me The Way
  • Radio Garden

News:

• Trimble releases (re-releases?) Sketchup for iPad
• Planet's Pelicans
• Storymaps.com
• Nature Conservancy partnership launches dynamic kelp map
• No More Anti-Satellite Missiles in the US
• Drone Blood Delivery Works in Rwanda
• Mapping signal interference between 5G and GPS
• To the moon
• ESA to test GNSS on the moon
• A KNaCK for the moon

Events:

• Digital storytelling festival: May 10 - June 12, virtual
• State of the Map 2022: August 19-21: Florence, Italy

• Arctic scientists work with indigenious tribal elders study Alaska Kotzebue ice
• New appointments to NGAC
• Imagery market forecasted to continue to grow

Topic:

• What is geospatial today? The constant progression of the definition, focus, and industry

Events:

• 8th International Conference on Cartography & GIS, Nessebar, Bulgaria 20-25 June
• WVAGP 2022 Conference: May 24th, Morgantown WV

• GPS on Benchmarks program
• Yellowstone thermal vents mapped
• Newberry's Crossings exhibit

Topic:

• Unexpected challenges in working with GIS

News:

• MWC
• GISCI Endorsement Designation Program
• NGA developing commercial imagery buying guide
• Goes-t Launch
• USGS Releases topoBuilder Tool for Custom Topographic Maps
• New collaboration between Rumsey Map Collection and Machines Reading Maps. mapKurator will scan text in 60,000 georeferenced Rumsey maps.
• Concerns about Russia targeting GPS, Communications
• Hawkeye 360
• Premise

News:

• SpaceX loses several satellites
• Koalas are an endangered species in parts of Australia
• GISCI announces June exam date

Topic:

• Isaac Brodsky, fourSquare talks about Unfolded's hex tiles

• Try it out at studio.unfolded.ai

Events:

• GeoIgnite 22: 1-3 March, virtual
• Citizen Science Conference, 23-26 May, hybrid

• Google's Firmina subsea cable will run from Myrtle Beach, SC to South America
• SpaceX Satellite Internet
• NOAA GOES T launching on March 1st
• Landsat 9 operational
• Nearspace 10cm available
• Public Labs
• ISS to be retired in 2030
• GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released
• Endurance22 expedition sets to find's Shackleton's lost ship

Topic:

• A few questions about this round of the Metaverse

Events:

• GISPro call due March 15
• Trimble Dimensions+: Nov 7-9, Las Vegas

AVSP Episode 683

January 23, 2022

News:

• Sentinel 1B issues
• Tonga eruption
• 2021 was 6th warmest year
• 44 superdove satellites launched
• ArcGIS IPS
• GISP-R
• US 5G rollout delayed around airports

Topic:

• We speak to Alastair Bonnett about his 2020 mass market book, Elsewhere, which looks at the role islands play, and touch on his new academic text, Multiracism.

Events:

• GEOINT 2022 Symposium
• GEO Business 2022

This week Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst, Associate Director of the GeoTech Center about the Geospatial Education Certificate (GeoEdC).