Location Matters

This week’s episode is brought to you from Costa Rica, Colombia and Perth, Australia! We hear from Rafael Monge and Ivan Gonzalez, two project winners of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) - Google Earth Engine (GEE) program. Our host, NGIS’ Sarah Butler and Yvonne Fong, Data Scientist at EO Data Science chat with the guests about how their projects are tackling important environmental challenges using Earth Observation data in Central and South America. 

From developing an early warning system to provide alerts of deforestation in Costa Rica, to generating an Ecological Integrity Index in Colombia—if you love seeing mapping tools make a positive impact, then this episode is for you. 

GEO-GEE project: Ecological Integrity Index

GEO-GEE project: Tackling deforestation and forest degradation in Costa Rica

EO Data Science Twitter

EO Data Science LinkedIn

The Indigenous Data Network (IDN) promotes the access and sharing of data within Indigenous organisations, enabling them to manage and utilise data in more sustainable ways. Our host, Sarah Butler, discusses with Darren Clinch (National Coordinator) and James Rose (Data Analytics Coordinator) of IDN, about ways in which they are working with data and geospatial technology to empower Indigenous organisations and communities. 

Darren shares with listeners some recent work in using health data to synthesise patterns and behviours in the Indigenous population’s access to our public health system, enabling better reporting on Aboriginal health and wellbeing. Collectively the speakers chat about the future of data visualisation; what social and cultural impacts they hope to achieve with this technology in coming years. 

If you are keen to learn about the way data sovereignty affects Indigenous organisations and how geospatial technology can be utilised to provide insightful visualisations, take a listen to this episode.

Indigenous Data Network

Indigenous Data Sovereignty Symposium

Winyama Services 

Open source software is changing the world and growing a strong community from around the globe. In this episode of Location Matters, we speak with two Australian open source GIS enthusiasts, Nyall Dawson and John Bryant. 

Heavily involved in the open geospatial community, Nyall and John chat with our host Sarah Butler about everything open source related - from QGIS being used by Indigenous people to care for country, to the online communities built for like-minded Geospatial enthusiasts. If you are looking to get involved in the open geospatial community, this podcast is for you! 

Geodesy blog: Positioning Australia for the future

Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW)

QGIS.org 

Geogeeks Perth

QGIS Open Day

Maptime Oceania Slack group: join here

QGIS Australian User Group

John Bryant Twitter

Nyall Dawson Twitter

It is common in GIS to work with companies and on projects where large amounts of data have been captured across disparate systems. On today’s Location Matters episode, we welcome back Senior GIS Developer, Nicholas Chai, to speak alongside our Principal GIS Consultant, Jack Green, about integrating different data sources into a single platform. Tune in as they discuss the process of integrating these data sources into a single platform, and if seeing each department's dataset in near-real time is possible.

Welcome back to another episode of Location Matters! On today’s episode we jump into the world of 3D photogrammetry with our friends over at Aerometrex. Our Marketing Manager and podcast host, Sarah Butler, sits (virtually) with NGIS’ Senior GIS Developer, Nick Chai and the Chief Operating Officer at Aerometrex, David Byrne to find out what photogrammetry is, and some of the cool ways it's been used in not just the construction industry, but in the gaming and movie industry. 

Aerometrex YouTube Channel

Aerometrex Blog

Aerometrex Gallery

MetroMap 3D Store

An Interactive 3D Model [ Denver ]

We have another cracker Location Matters episode this week covering two winning projects from the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) - Google Earth Engine (GEE) program. Our host,  NGIS’ Sarah Butler & Yvonne Fong, Data Scientist at EO Data Science, are joined by project leads Nicholas Murray from James Cook University, and Dimos Traganos from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to discuss how their projects Remap and Global Seagrass Watch are tackling important environmental challenges using Earth observation data. If you love hearing about cool mapping tools that make a positive impact -  tune in to this episode!

Group on Earth Observations and Google Earth Engine program announcement

GEO-GEE Project: Mapping the status of ecosystems with Remap (Nick’s project)

GEO-GEE Project: Coastal ecosystems  (Dimos’ project)

Remap

We are excited to have Chad Jennings, Google Cloud Product Manager for BigQuery, back on the Location Matters podcast, speaking alongside our very own Executive Director, Nathan Eaton. 

In this episode, Chad and Nathan discuss Google Cloud geospatial updates, including developments with running Esri ArcGIS within Google Cloud. They also touch on some of the cool sustainable supply chain initiatives they have been collaborating on, and the noticeable increase in popularity they’re seeing when it comes to businesses harnessing the power of Google Cloud and GIS technology together - which are outside of the typical industries you’d see using maps. If that sounds interesting to you, tune in!

Carto Tiler Blog

Choropleths in Data Studio

BigQuery GIS Intro

Google and ESRI:

Google Blog

Esri Blog

BigQuery Omni

Public Issue Trackers (search this page for BigQuery)

Carto BigQuery Tiler General Availability Blog

When you’re working in GIS, you can’t always tell people that their data governance structure is less than ideal or even scary to look at. On this week’s episode of Location Matters, we sit down with NGIS' GIS Analyst-Developer, Stafford Smith, Senior GIS Consultant, Joy Miles, and Principal GIS Consultant Nick Chai. We get their perspective on what a good data governance framework looks like, and times they have seen data go from ugly to great!

We’re back with a new season of Location Matters! To kick off the first episode of season three, we’re joined by David Kroodsma, Director of Research and Innovation at Global Fishing Watch, and Brian Sullivan, Program Manager at Google Earth Outreach. David and Brian look back at how Global Fishing Watch started and how the platform is utilising Google Cloud and Google Earth Engine to identify fishing vessels with high risk of forced labour, track illegal fishing in North Korea, and so much more.  

Global Fishing Watch

Google Earth Outreach

Illegal fishing in North Korea study

This is the final episode of season two of Location Matters AND the last episode for 2020. What a rollercoaster of a year we've had and I'm so proud of how far this podcast has come. In this week's episode, we have some powerhouses in the geospatial industry, Chad Jennings, the Product Manager for BigQuery, Google's Cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse; Matt Forrest, the Director of Spatial Data Science at CARTO; Dion Fleming, the CARTO team lead and Customer Engineer at Liveli and Sarah Butler, NGIS Marketing Manager and a great podcast host. Today we dive into Google Cloud's focus on next generation spatial infrastructure, looking at the new CARTO BigQuery Tiler API and CARTO BigQuery connector, as well as what the roadmap looks like for BigQuery Geovisualisation in the future.

BigQuery sandbox  

Getting started with SQL in CARTO

Twitter search for #BigQueryGIS

Transform, store and analyse your GIS data with FME and BigQuery