

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.
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Episodes
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May 27, 2019 • 32min
S4E6: Open chat with Markus Neteler
Markus Neteler talks to us about OSGeo, GRASS, Actinia and modern EO. In the news we mention Radiant Earth Foundation, Orbital Go and GDAL. 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:
A new cubesat: the SPARC 1
The release of GDAL 3.0
GDAL documentation update
GDAL documentation as a pdf
Radiant Earth Foundation refocus
Launch of KTN Geospatial Insights SIG
European Data Cube facility service
Measuring air pollution from space
Orbital Insight announces Orbital Go
Mundialis
A paper about Actinia
Markus on Github
OSGeo: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
GRASS
Geo4All
FOSS4G 2019 conference

May 9, 2019 • 29min
S04 E05: DIAS Discussions
Part two of our DIAS discussions. We talk about how the DIAS systems might work for users. In the news we mention meetings, DescartesLabs and OpenDroneMap. 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 Sprint 4 announced
ARD Workshop announced
Maxar is the new name for DigitalGlobe
Posters available for the BBC series Earth From Space
Julia Signell gives a great PyData talk
It's 100 million interactions on SentinelHub
Updates available for GeoPandas
ECW format is out of patent
Pangeo
Updates to OpenDroneMap
Selling products is wrong for AI startups
Call for proposals for Open Earth Engine
Creodias
Sobloo
Mundi
Onda
Wekeo

Apr 15, 2019 • 24min
S04 E04: DIAS Overview
DIAS. What is it? Why is it? We discuss our first impressions in part one of a two part mini-series. In the news we mention SentinelSat, RADARSAT and deep 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:
India shoots down a satellite
A new release of SentinelSat software
Deep learning with SAR
Tallest tropical tree 1
Tallest tropical tree 2
A call for your forestry tools
Open data release from RADARSAT
DIAS roundup from EARSC

Mar 25, 2019 • 32min
S04 E03: Space for Smarter Government
We interview Simon Agass about a new data release from the Space for Smarter Government programme. In the news we mention FOSS4G:UK, competitions and ice truckers. 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:
Data Sci and Satellite Imagery: Andrew's post of the month
Development Seed have updated sat-utils
Water scarcity as a GEE app
Sentinel-Hub script competition
Monitoring ice and ice truckers
A land cover monitoring system for Afghanistan
FOSS4G:UK call for papers and workshops
FOSS4G 2019 EO competition
UK Space for Smarter Government Programme As of 7th May 2021 this initiative came to an end.

Mar 4, 2019 • 29min
S04 E02: Cubesats
Cubesats are all the rage, but what are they and why should we care? In the news we mention GEOS, machine learning and a greener world. 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:
How accurate is machine learning? Andrew's post of the month
Machine learning data 1: BigEarthNet
Machine learning data 2: Dataset list
The world is getting greener?
Paul Ramsey and Martin Davis will be working on GEOS
Homework: the EARSC DIAS comparison
Article on smallsats
Cubesats at CSIRO
Interview with Peter Beck at RocketLab
Build your own cubesat
Planet back in the day

Feb 11, 2019 • 33min
S04 E01: Interview with 2ExcelGeo
In this episode we interview Kate Doyle of 2ExcelGeo about aerial data collection and finding work after university. In the news we mention SAR software, UK Space growth and Sensat. 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 UK space sectore is creating jobs
ESRI ArcGIS Notebooks
A new SAR-bot called Synthetic Aperture Random
SAR software #1: HyP3
SAR software #2: S1 Tiling
ALL the pixels from the rather impressive Sensat
GLOBE Adopt a Pixel
The 2ExcelGeo website

Jan 25, 2019 • 30min
S03 E06: Interview with Marlan
In this episode we interview Dr Cai Bird of Marlan Maritime Technologies about a very nifty radar system. In the news we mention WorldView 4, ESA budgets and Python 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:
Maxar reports the loss of the WorldView-4 satellite
Online GLCF portal is closed down
Earth observation gets a good chunk of the ESA Budget
Satellogic is good to go!
MODIS VIIRS Client
Patrick Gray releases Python tutorial notebooks
Anak Krakatau imaged by ICEYE
Marlan Maritime Synoptic technology
A paper on the Marlan method
Will you be at the Big Data from Space conference?

Dec 23, 2018 • 25min
S03 E05: One year on!
It's been a whole year of the Scene From Above podcast. Thank you so much for all your support. In this episode we talk about some of the predictions we made in February in S1 E3. In the news we mention Boundless and Planet, Metop-C and DigitalGlobe. 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:
Planet to acquire Boundless
Hottest companies in satellite technology
Active users on the SciHub is 33k
DigitalGlobe images are stunning
ICESAT updates
METOP-C ends an era of meteorological satellites
Hyperscout creates onboard ARD

Dec 8, 2018 • 32min
S03 E04: The Radiant Earth Foundation
In this episode we talk to Anne Hale Miglarese, CEO of the Radiant Earth Foundation, about the Foundation's plans and platform as well as the state of modern EO. In the news we mention GEE and S5P, AWS Groundstations, GOES and OpenEO. 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:
Russian Progress launch filmed from the ISS (apologies, in the podcast Alastair states that it's a US launch site)
More GEE and S5P chat
AWS announce their Groundstation service
Imagery available from GOES-17
Happy 1-year anniversary OpenEO
Images from NovoSAR
Congratulations to Sean Quegan's group for winning the NERC Economic Impact Award 2018
Andrew's video of the month: Nyall Dawson
Check out The Radiant Earth Foundation
Andrew is going to be at GRSG 2018 so go say hello!

Nov 22, 2018 • 32min
S03 E03: Open sauced
In this episode we talk about open source software for EO and geospatial analysis. In the news we mention a whole host of things including whales, Sentinel HR, eo-learn and phi-week. 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:
Identifying whales from satellite imagery
Blog post about the Sentinel HR proposal
Mapping dams from space
Introducing eo-learn
$2M contract awarded to Radiant Solutions
Take the time to check out some of the work done by John Murray
YouTube playlist for ESA Phi-Week
The global OSGeo page
OSGeo:UK the UK chapter


