A podcast for geospatial people. Weekly episodes that focus on the tech, trends, tools, and stories from the geospatial world. Interviews with the people that are shaping the future of GIS, geospatial as well as practitioners working in the geo industry. This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
GEDI stands for Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation so, No, I have not misspelled JEDI
This episode is all about using space Lidar to make precise measurements of forest canopy height, canopy vertical structure with the goal of measuring the carbon content of the world's forests.
Find out more about GEDI here: https://gedi.umd.edu/
Other LiDAR related podcast episodes that you might find interesting
OPEN TOPOGRAPHY - INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TOPOGRAPHIC DATA
PDAL - POINT DATA ABSTRACTION LIBRARY
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Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Urbansky is using stratospheric balloons as an earth observation platform! you might be wondering how you steer a balloon? keep it at a stable height? or get it back to earth?
... if you are wondering how all of this is possible then you are in luck! this episode is for you
Follow UrbanSky on Twitter
https://twitter.com/urbanskyimaging
Some interesting balloon related links
14 minutes from earth ( YouTube Trailer )
https://x.company/projects/loon/
https://www.zero2infinity.space/
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
This episode is not just about how to be better at teaching and helping students learn geospatial skills and concepts, it's also about building and selling online courses. It's about education as a service and how we make the service as assessable as possible.
But more broadly, it's about being better communicators and helping people get to where they are trying to go.
Connect with Hans on Twitter and follow along on YouTube
https://twitter.com/hansakwast
https://www.youtube.com/c/HansvanderKwast
Qiusheng Wu ( inspirational educator )
https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/
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Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Microsoft is building a Planetary Computer.
The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs, a flexible scientific environment that allows users to answer global questions about that data, and applications that put those answers in the hands of conservation stakeholders.
https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/
For a podcast episode about Google Earth Engine just have a look back through the podcast archive
of click this link
https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine
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Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
This is not a deep dive technical explanation of all things Landsat, it's a brief overview of the Landsat mission, what it takes to launch a Landsat satellite, how the data get back to earth, and what it is used for.
There is also a brief discussion of Landsat next ... the future of Landsat ;)
You can access Landsat data here
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/data
Or via STAC here https://landsat.stac.cloud/?t=catalogs
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Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive, or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial. It's not just a bunch of open source geospatial tools it's an environment for geospatial tools.
Thanks to Astrid Emde and OSGeo
Find out more about OSGeoLive here https://live.osgeo.org/
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Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
This is not a podcast episode about collecting data from a plane! it's a podcast episode about the possibilities of large-scale aerial mapping using only RGB data and the challenges you face along the way.
Dr. Michael Bewley from www.nearmap.com
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Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Labels matter and if we are talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning then they matter a lot! but what is labeled data? how is it different from tagging, annotating, or segmentation?
This podcast episode is an introduction to creating training data for AI algorithms and if you are new to AI or just want to understand it a bit better go back into the podcast archive and check out the episode called "An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence"
Thanks to Mallory Dodd from iMerit.net
Check out https://geoawesomeness.com/
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Perhaps you have thought about starting your own Geospatial business or maybe you are just curious about the kind of people that do venture into the world of entrepreneurship within the geospatial industry. Carly Morris, head of Geovation gives us an insight into the kind of geospatial founders she is looking for and the kinds of problems these founders are solving.
If you are interested in starting your own business then this podcast episode is for you!.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlymorris/
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Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Monitoring flooding from space is hard, even for a radar that can look through clouds and operate at night! Shay Strong from ICEYE walks us through some of the challenges around creating a reliable and predictable flood monitoring process and explains why the technology is not the hard part.
Reach out to Shay on Twitter at @shaybstrong !
If you want to know more about SAR technology check the episode called "INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR" in the podcast feed!
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