The Scene From Above Podcast

The Scene From Above Podcast

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The Scene From Above Podcast episodes

  • S12E3: Thank News 2

    We talk about some great folks in the community - and then only have time for the news. In the news we mention Cloud Native Outreach Day, SNAP and Microsoft. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    Interesting breakdown of EO satellites

  • I'm not sure I really understand this but it sounds cool

  • New Impact Observatory data are here

  • Cloud Native Outreach Day is coming 

  • This city does not exist

  • SNAP 9 is coming

  • Labelling tool from Microsoft 

    21 min
  • S12E2: Thank News

    We talk about some great folks in the community - for so long that we only have time for the news. In the news we mention LiDAR, GEO and Landsat 9. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • Landsat 9 imagery is now available 
  • Satellogic get funding to $150M and NASDAQ listed - don't take your eyes off these folks! 
  • Blog of the month? 
  • Microsoft releases Torchgeo 
  • RSGISLIB v5 is out 
  • LiDAR for the whole of France 
  • ML market news
    • 24 min
  • S12E1: What do we do?

    We talk about why it's so hard to simply and accurately state what it is we do to people outside the profession. In the news we mention Sentinel 1B, launches and ARD. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • Sentinel 1B power issues
  • Tonga
  • EO market share
  • What is Kaggle used for?
  • A great ARD post
  • Mort Canty's resources on GEE
  • Loads of stuff launched
  • Hidden EO voices
  • Steven's tweet
    • 27 min
  • S11E6: Four Years

    We talk about the year that's just passed and also the 4 years that we have been podcasting. In the news we mention GEDI, Callisto and Iceye. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    Have you landed on MLHub recently?

  • Iceye to provide X-band SAR to MDA

  • 10cm imagery!

  • Earth Engine converts the lot to a STAC catalog

  • GEDI in GEE eg Keiko, e.g. Emil 

  • iScanForest - https://iscanforest.fld.czu.cz/

  • Digital Earth Australia Coastlines updates and portal 

  • Callisto looks like an interesting project 

  • Heads up again for the Brazil Data Cube 

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    Nanalyze finance stuff
  • The SPAC Shack 
  • Andrew's review of 2021
    • 30 min
  • S11E5: Include everyone

    We talk to Flavia Mendes about inclusion in EO. In the news we mention 30 Day Map Challenge, floods and geo4good. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • 30 Days of Maps
  • GEO Highlights report
  • geo4good

  • Google Wants to Save the Planet With Satellite Images

  • Floods in British Columbia

  • PhD opportunity with Qiusheng Wu

  • Robin's DL repo passes 2K stars

  • Flavia on Twitter
  • Benefits of gender diversity
  • Geomixer
  • You can hear more from Flavia here
  • Groups and people to look up on Twitter
    • Role models:
    • @LianaAmazonia (in Brazil)
  • @VinhasLubia (in Brazil)
  • @yhasmoura (from Brazil, but live in UK)
  • @polybispo (from Brazil, but lives in UK)
  • @YanaGevorgyan1 (from Group on Earth Observation)
  • RSATE group: @rsategroup
  • UMAIN (You May Act for Inclusion): @GeoDiversityInc
  • Group of women in Brazil:
    • @meninasdageo
  • @mothersinsci
  • Manel Watch (to report):
    • @ManelWatchAU
  • @ManelWatchUS
  • Global organisations
    • @LadiesOfLandsat
  • @SistersofSAR
  • @geospatialwomen
    • 33 min
  • Special episode

    A fun episode created entirely from outtakes from the podcast recording sessions and edited together to (try and) make some coherent content. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording and editing it together!  

    5 min
  • S11E4: The Socials

    We have a chat about how social media and EO match up. In the news we mention DEMs, COP and GEE. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • Faster GEE image downloads
  • A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units
  • High resolution DEM's - EarthDEM 
  • Worldcover 10m dataset  and Earth Engine app
  • Zarr, COG and TileDB discussions
  • GDAL - new release 3.4
  • All the COP26 news! Go look online...
    • 29 min
  • S11E3: Impact Observatory

    We talk to Steve from Impact Observatory. In the news we mention Sisters of SAR, Pelican and Moocs. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • Sisters of SAR website
  • Living Planet Symposium
  • Demeter
  • Planet and Pelican
  • AI for Earth Monitoring on Future Learn
  • Open EO Cloud and call for early adopters
  • Google Earth Engine updates
  • Webmap performance
  • Impact Observatory
  • 10m Land Cover/Land Use map
    • 32 min
  • S11E2: Disruption

    We discuss issues around disruption in the EO/geo business system. In the news we mention Landsat-9, GDAL and machine learning. Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • Landsat 9 is launched
  • A nice EO based newsletter from Priya Patel
  • Awesome spectral indices
  • Being directly responsible for your career
  • Machine learning resources
  • UK Space Conf and FOSS4G are this week
  • GDAL changes - be aware
  • KTN Pavilion for COP26
  • Aravind's tweet 
    • 24 min
  • S11E1: Biomass

    We talk to Ed from the University of Edinburgh. In the news we mention stactools, SPACs and IceCube (not that one!). Amongst other things.

    If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

    Shownotes:

    • New updates to stactools including support around Sentinel 1 GRD
  • Reduce GeoTIFF Disk Space Usage with Python 
  • IceCube released by Iceye
  • Investor presentations from Planet and Blacksky
  • #SLICED and its impact
  • Ed Mitchard
  • GEDI
  • GEDI and Python
  • NISAR
  • SENSE
  • Space Intelligence
    • 32 min

About The Scene From Above Podcast

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thriveGEO presents Season 15 of this podcast, bringing you informal discussions about the cool things in the world of Earth observation.