The Scene From Above Podcast

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

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!  

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...

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

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 

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

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

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  

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

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