The Scene From Above Podcast

The Scene From Above Podcast

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The Scene From Above Podcast episodes

  • S10E6: Digital Twins

    We talk about EO and digital twins. In the news we mention Remote Pixel, Landsat 9 and STAC. Only those. Not 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:

    • Sensat and Khalid
  • STAC RfP
  • Remote Pixel is done
  • Landsat 9 has a snazzy new page
  • Creating a digital twin of the Earth
  • The Earth archive
  • Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Destination Earth
  • Smart City Digital Twins
  • Digital Twin Fan Club podcast
    • 30 min
  • S10E5: Recruitment Issues

    We discuss issues about recruitment in the EO and geospatial sectors. In the news we mention RSGISlib,  urban planning and Fregata Space. Only those. Not 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:

    • Sensat and Khalid
  • RSGISlib has a new release coming
  • Fregata Space announcement
  • Urban planning in Vienna

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    28 min
  • S10E4: DEA Coastlines

    We talk to Robbi from Geoscience Australia. In the news we mention Earth Blox and MOOCs, Iceye and 10m landcover! 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:

    • Observing Earth from Space MOOC
  • Sentinel-6 data
  • Sponsored SAR data for research
  • ObSERVE 2 aerial surveys
  • 10m Landcover data

  • Digital Earth Australia Coastlines

  • Open Data Cube

  • Digital Earth Australia notebooks and tools repository

  • Robbi's Twitter

    36 min
  • S10E3: TileDB

    We talk to Stavros and Norman from TileDB. In the news we mention GEE again and R! 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:

    • awesome-gee-community-datasets code & datasets
  • SAR Watcher! and awesome-earth-engine-apps 
  • Introducing G.AI.A - the promises and pitfalls in using AI in conservation
  • Superpixels in R from Jakub Nowosad 
  • Alastair's new job as Sparkgeo lead in the UK 
  • TileDB
  • TileDB and geospatial
  • Norman's presentation to Radiant Earth
    • 31 min
  • S10E2: Tyler Talks GEE

    We talk to Tyler Erickson from Google about Google Earth Engine. In the news we mention launches, the EO clinic and Digital Earth Africa! 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:

    • The ethics of using geospatial data 
  • Interesting use cases from the EO Clinic:
  • Satellite Vu on its way to a thermal constellation
  • Alba Orbital funding round 
  • Albedo funding round
  • Continuing the trend of high quality tutorials in 2021 
  • Digital Earth Africa  portal and training 
  • Best Available Pixel on Github and GEE
  • Earth Outreach digital event hub
  • Geo for Good Summit 2020
  • Publishing an Earth Engine App to Accompany your Research Paper
  • Earth Engine Community pages 

    Training Resources 

    32 min
  • S10E1: SAR ML with Shay

    We talk to Shay Strong from Iceye about SAR, machine learning and more. In the news we mention the MEGA NEWS and hackathons! 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:

    • The Mega News
    • Microsoft Planetary computer
  • Google Earth timelapse
  • Planet Carbonmapper
  • GDAL financial support
  • RSGISlib on Twitter
  • awesome-gee-community-datasets catalog 
  • Is EO starting to go mainstream? 
  • Geo-Podcasts list
  • Noel Gorelick Medium posts
  • ICESAT2 Hackweek
  • Going nuts about Geopandas
  • SpaceNet 6
  • Iceye
  • Iceye flood monitoring: 
  • EO College Echoes in Space - Intro to Radar Remote Sensing: 
  • GitHub SAR tools: 
  • Shay on Twitter
  • Shay on Medium 
    • 31 min
  • S9E6: Vincent Sarago

    We talk to Vincent Sarago about COGs and Remote Pixel and more. In the news we mention the Ever Given, LiveEO and tutorials! 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:

    • Ever Given is all over the internet  
  • "The Space Speedometer"
  • LiveEO closed their Series A 
  • The pace of excellent tutorials is incredible:
    • ShadedRelief
  • Earth Data Science
  • GIS Open Courseware
  • NASA
  • Mapbox
  • Remote Pixel
  • Development Seed
  • Cloud Optimised GeoTiff
  • titiler
  • aiocogeo
  • deck.gl-raster
    • 33 min
  • S9E5: GEO

    We chat to Phoebe and Angelica about AfriGEO and AmeriGEO. In the news we mention our Tweets, STAC and SPAC! 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:

    • STAC 1.0.0 RC1 released
  • A really great discussion on Twitter
  • What is SPAC?
  • Updates: geopandas and gdal
  • FAAAARRRRMS FROM SPAAAAACCCCE
  • Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
  • AfriGEO
  • AmeriGEO
  • GeoGLOWS

  • Inter-American Academy of Geosciences & Applications

  • RCMRD

    28 min
  • S9E4: Viability

    We discuss issues around a viable EO ecosystem. In the news we mention Etna, dual-band SAR satellites and HLS. 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:

    • Alpha-Insights SAR
  • Etna erupts
    • Simon Proud's tweet
  • Updated hydrological dataset
  • Harmonised Landsat Sentinel-2 data
  • Step-by-step flooding tutorial
  • Terrawatch Space podcast episode
  • Geomob podcast episode
  • The Twitter poll
  • GIM article
    • 26 min
  • S9E3: SOS

    We talk to Laura, Gopika and Sarah from the Sisters of SAR. In the news we mention INPE, COGs (again!) and Google Earth. 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:

    • COGs and the OGC
  • COGs and Geoserver
  • LiveEO and the US power network
  • The INPE Amazon mission
  • Michael Jones and Google Earth
  • If GDAL breaks, how many EO businesses fail?
  • Sisters of SAR
  • 2021 - the year of SAR?

  • #TrainingTuesdays tweets can be found by typing "#TrainingTuesdays @SistersofSAR" in the Twitter search tab.

  • NISAR mission

  • ICEYE public archive

    • Ladies of Landsat
  • Women in Geospatial+
  • 500 Women Scientists
  • She Maps
  • GeoNadir
  • A new section of the MDPI journal 'Remote Sensing' called "Discoveries in Remote Sensing" aims at increasing diversity and representation in RS and offers fee waivers for manuscripts from underfunded and underrepresented groups. 
    • 36 min

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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.