December 17, 2024

S15E2: Is the future of geospatial in the cloud? A conversation with Dr. Brianna R. Pagán

44 minutes

Welcome to Season 15, during which we will host a series of conversations around the question: 'Is the future of geospatial in the cloud?' With ever increasing amounts of satellite data and computational power available, moving geospatial workflows to the cloud opens the doors to powerful insights. But what does it take to really switch to doing things in a cloud-native way? Let's find out together.

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Brianna R. Pagán, Deputy Manager of the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data Information Centre. In her current role, Brianna is responsible for orchestrating the transition to the cloud while managing various engineering, science, and data curation teams. She has also recently been appointed as an Editorial Board member of the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum.

Brianna shares about her career trajectory, her reflections on the intersection of technology, climate change and social justice, why she believes that the future of geospatial is all about collaboration and how the cloud is one piece of the puzzle…

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More about Brianna:

Website - https://www.briannapagan.com/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-r-pagán-phd-8a49a46b

More about Openscapes - https://openscapes.org/

More about the NASA TOPS initiative - https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/

Watch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/HB9ycjEsg0M

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Season 15 of Scene from Above is brought to you by thriveGEO.

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