The Scene From Above Podcast

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

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 

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