The Scene From Above Podcast

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

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

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

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. 

We have a chat about the rise of cloud optimised geotiffs. In the news we mention elephants, Landsat 9 and #eochat. 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: ONDA MOST announced  Elephants from space  Head Aerospace and its assets  "It’s not just about throwing flood maps over the fence and hoping people use them"  Landsat 9 launch date announced  Illegal Gold Mining down 78% in the Peruvian Amazon  #eochat Sundays 8-9pm GMT and Wednesdays 2-3pm GMT STAC and COG links: https://www.cogeo.org/ https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-cloud-optimized-geotiffs-cogs https://geoexamples.com/other/2019/02/08/cog-tutorial.html https://stacindex.org/ https://stacspec.org/ 

It's our 3 year anniversary episode, and also one where we look back at 2020 and think about what 2021 might have in store. In the news we mention Iceberg A68a, PanGeo and Rasters Revealed. 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: Rasters Revealed 2021 Online  The ONS Data Science Campus water tool The Irish space collaboration hub launches So many Iceberg A68a stories  Climate Trace  Mapbox release GL JS v2  and it's proprietary PanGeo stuff: PanGeo and STAC  PanGeo code as a Gist PanGeo, NetCDF and Zarr  More awesome GEE work from @giswqs   Slack bought out by Salesforce

We talk to Keiko Nomura from Space Intelligence about using Google Earth Engine in her PhD. In the news we mention Maxar, Rasters Revealed and xarray. 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: Sentinel-6 and planned Copernicus launches! Maxar announce 15 cm imagery  Rasters Revealed is on the 15th Jan 2021 Penguin counting using drones  Cloud Native Geospatial Sprint Awards & Bounties  500 resources on awesome-eo-code!! Handling multi temporal satellite images with xarray  3D web visualisation Keiko's page Space Intelligence

We talk to Joe Morrison from Azavea about satellite imagery aggregation, and whether it works as a business model. In the news we mention earth.nullschool, QGIS and S1/S2 ARD code. 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: Catch-up content from Geo for Good The JNCC S1/S2 ARD list  Cell analysis in QGIS announced A reminder of earth.nullschool which has been updated 30 Day Map Challenge Azavea Joe on Twitter

We talk to David Borges from NASA about using EO for disaster monitoring and response. In the news we mention Sentinel, the podcast (meta!) 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: Sentinel free on AWS again - as a COG Sentinel HR moves forward Radiant Earth's "State of ML" resources We are now on Spotify  NASA Applied Sciences Disasters Program Website CEOS WGDisasters Website Joint NASA, ESA, JAXA COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard GEO Disaster Risk Reduction WG

Welcome to Scene From Above Snapshots - quickfire discussions on various topics. Enjoy!  If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom Recorded at the start of lockdown!