News:

• Trimble providing venture funding
• Haiti Earthquake
• Census redistricting data available now

Topic:

• Recreating landscapes - snapshots in time and space

Events:

• UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 Oct, Grand Forks, ND

This week we look back on 16 years and celebrate Barb's dissertation defense

News:

• Geospatial Revolution Part 5
• Hexagon acquires Immersal
• Autodesk Tandem
• Esri announcements
• • 90 new analytical features across Pro, Enterprise, Online
  • • Heavy focus on AI/ML (GeoAI)
  • ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online
  • SURE for ArcGIS ("Reality capture" at scale)
  • ArcGIS GeoBIM coming out in the fall
  • • Link features to BIM documents
  • Velocity
  • • Real time data/IoT
  • Cloud Data Warehouses
  • Pro
  • • Pantone colors for symbology
    • Online like pop-ups
  • Data Engineering (view)
  • • Data preparation
    • Can visualize descriptive stats for each field in file
  • Online
  • • Blending for symbology
    • Instant Apps

News:

• A "New" Ocean
• FAA Recreation test

Topic:

• A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains

Events:

• NCGE: Nov 19-21, Minneapolis

News:

• China puts a rover on Mars -
• GAO report on DOD navigation
• Apple WWDC location announcements
• • Video - Maps update
  • Video - Object capture API (aka photogrammetry)
• Amazon Location Service now generally available for AWS -
• AWS startup Accelerator includes geospatial -
• Lego (official) map

News:

• Google IO google maps

Topic:

• This week we talk about how we can consider and infer geographic concepts through 2D and 3D representations

Events:

• Earth Archive Virtual Conference: 15-16 June
• Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021: September 7-9 Las Vegas NV

News:

• Moving a border
• Rand McNally releases new Road Atlas
• Ookla and MapBox partnership
• Maptitude 2021 released
• Props to the Mars Helicopter!
• New SWOT satellite launching in 2022 to measure Earth's water

Topic:

• Deepfakes
• • UW news
  • Article
  • 2018 article
  • GCN article

News:

• Geospatial Revolution Episode 5 trailer
• Cesium for Unreal
• Verizon RTK
• Google Earth releases upgraded Timelapse with Landsat imagery
• Carbon Mapper

Topic:

• EarthDay everyday

References for this week's episode:

• Mapping vaccine distribution (from January)
• Prospect & Refuge
• FAA updates
• Mars helicopter
• Evergreen

Topic:

• A conversation spurred by (shiver) a Facebook post. We talk about how we look at tutorials and training and their place in learning GIS (or, really, anything these days).

Events corner

• 2021 Korea Geospatial Information Roadshow: March 22-26, Virtual
• State of the Map 2021: July 9-11, online. Call open for talks, workshops, (April 4) and panels (June 6)