News:

• GLONASS launch
• Indian mission successfully lands on the Moon
• Japan hoping to launch lunar lander mission on Sept. 7th
• MIT measures river flows on Mars using remote sensing
• Google Maps Platform adds environmental data APIs
• Mapbox 3D updates

Topic:

• Integrating new technologies into existing workflows

Events:

• InterGeo 2023: 10-12 October, Berlin
• Applied Geography Conference: 25-28 October, Pittsburgh, abstracts Sept 13
• GoGeomatics: 6-8 November, Calgary

Music:

• "All we live for" by WolfClub

News:

• Hillary hits the west coast of North America
• Planet completes acquisition, growing Earth Data platform
• PostGIS 3.4 released
• Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a "cannot miss" tourist spot in Canada

Topic:

• Highlighting Geography (and geospatial) as students return to classrooms

Events:

• Geography 2050: 16-17 November 2023, New York City, NY
• 6th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Mgmt Strategy Workshop: 6-10 November, Santa Fe, NM
• SotM 2024: 6-8 September, Nairobi, Kenya

News

• Voyager 2 Pinged - 37 hours round trip call
• Hotter Atlantic, but fewer hurricanes
• Report on National Data Infrastructure CNSTAT and U.S. Census

Topic:

• Dashboards - what's next?

Reminiscing on 18 years of the podcast.

AVSP Episode 717

July 9, 2023

News:

• MA Location Shield Act

• NavIC 9th satellite

• Vietnam bans Barbie movie over map

• Esri UC

News:

• More BeiDou satellites launched

• U.S. NIST announces Ultra-Precise Timing Links to Geosynchronous Satellites

• Saildrones!

Web Corner:

• Arctic Indigenous Peoples languages and revitalization map project released

Topic:

• Story, narrative, vignettes, story boarding…narrative design for geoviz

• https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar/storytelling

Events:

• 2023 NSGIC Annual Conference and first annual National Geospatial Golf Classic: September 24-29, New Orleans, LA

• NYGeoCon 2023: September 25-27, Albany, NY

• INTERGEO 2023: October 10th - 12th, Berlin, Germany

Topic:

Our discussion on AR/VR, AI, and other topics from recent developer conferences.

• Microsoft Build

• Google I/O

• Apple WWDC

News:

• NV5 acquires L3 Harris Viz portfolio
• Lidar smallsat swarm
• Hackers test satellite security

Topic:

• Landscape considerations and representation

News:

• Virginia Norwood and earth observation

• Maxar to be acquired

• 5G constellation to support IoT

• CalTech releases 5.7 terapixel Mars mosaic

• New USGIF Scholarships for 2023

Topic:

• EarthDay, sustainability, and geo

News:

• NRO hyperspectral contracts (planets, pixxel, hypersat)

• BlackSky commissions newest satellites in 18 hrs

• Cesium for Omniverse

Topic: Interviews from NC GIS Conference

• OpenDataSoft

• TwinCity Data

• NCSU Center for Geospatial Analytics