News:

• Potential changes to Metropolitan Statistical Areas
• Congressional push for timing backup for GIS
• Cardillo appointed as USGIF chair

Topic:

• Anthony Calamito of Enview

News:

• Perseverance!
• India launches Amazonia 1 satellite for Brazil
• Canon built a smallsat for advertising (and research)
• Atlas of the Human Planet
• iOS beta gets crowdsourced info
• QGIS 3,18 released
• ArcGIS platform
• GeoWeek 2022 Advisory board
• Next step in (counter)Ligado stuff

Cool Stuff

• http://radio.garden/

Events corner

• NCGIS 2021 presentations up on YouTube soon
• ASPRS 2021: March 29-April 2, virtual
• GISPro 2021: 3-6 Oct, Baltimore, Abstracts due March 31

News:

• New NOAA Drought website
• New Sentinel-based long-term global fire dataset
• Tilt brush going open
• Microsoft releases Sustainability City in Minecraft
• Amnesty International will create maps of facial recognition cameras
• GISCI Map Contest

Topic:

• News and discussing visual media

AVSP Episode 659

January 24, 2021

News:

• Saudi Arabia proposes linear city
• HERE launches Premier 3D Cities
• Esri Canada's 3D cities model resources
• Final Fantasy XV director teams up with Japanese airline for virtual tourism
• Successful launch and deployment for NASA's ELaNa mission CubeSats
• SpaceX Transporter-1

Topic:

• Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective

Events corner

• HXGNLive June 15-18 Las Vegas, limited to 1500
• ACH2021: July 22-23, Abstracts due by Feb 1
• GISPro 2021 Oct 3-6 Baltimore, MDzoom

AVSP Episode 658

January 10, 2021

News:

• EU announces Destination Earth
• FAA announces RemoteID plans
• USGIF academic consortium
• URISA Coalition of Young Professionals
• Esri Hub for Imagery and Remote Sensing
• javascript

News:

• MapBox moves to 3D and changes license
• Australian venture pushes toward lunar exploration
• Digital Coast Act signed into law

Topic:

• Reality capture?
• • Terrestrial lidar
  • Drone photogrammetry
  • Reality capture in our/your pocket
  • Scale shift?

Events

• GeoBusiness 2021 moved to November

News:

• Here WeGo Deliver
• Introduction of ArcGIS Field Maps leads to deprecation countdown for existing Esri apps
• Esri buys Turkish software firm Zibumi for 3D viz

Topic:

• Will Cadell of SparkGeo about Prescient.earth

House Keeping:

• Map Projections for Babies Kickstarter

News:

• Google tests letting users add Street View images with their phones
• Google's Tree Canopy Project
• OpenStreetMap commercialization
• NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Finalists
• Sentinel 6 launch

Topic:

• We briefly talk about our favorite geographies...which means many things unto itself.

Cool Stuff:

• https://reearth.io

Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford. You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.

A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week