A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

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)

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