

The Scene From Above Podcast
thriveGEO.com
A show that brings you informal discussions about the cool things in the world of Earth observation.
If you have questions, comments or corrections about this podcast then you can contact us on Twitter using @eoscenefrom or on LinkedIn.
Season 15 is organised, recorded and edited by thriveGEO.
If you have questions, comments or corrections about this podcast then you can contact us on Twitter using @eoscenefrom or on LinkedIn.
Season 15 is organised, recorded and edited by thriveGEO.
Episodes
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Apr 7, 2020 • 28min
S7E3: Up north
We chat with Charlotte Bishop GRSG and Norway. In the news we mention the GROW Observatory, Himawari data and GEE (again). 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:
Satellites and water management in Africa
AWS hosts Himawari data
Check out the GROW Observatory
Process your data on GEE
Loss of ice mass and gravity measurements
KSAT
GSRG

Mar 17, 2020 • 28min
S7E2: SERVIR
We chat with Emil Cherrington from the SERVIR programme. In the news we mention the Amazon rainforest, Syria and ICEYE. 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:
Some sobering imagery of Syria
SAR video from ICEYE
Shell Gamechanger
ESA Startup Competition
More resources from FastAI
Unidata Python resources
GEO, Google Earth and cultural maps of the Amazon
SERVIR
BelizeGeo Twitter account

Mar 4, 2020 • 32min
S7E1: Career capers
We'll stop talking careers after this one, and get back to pure EO. Honest. In the news we mention Zooniverse, SAR 101 and Energeo. Amongst other things. You can listen to S7E1, S6E6 and S2E3 as a mini-series about jobs in the EO sector. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
Australian wildfires from ABC
News about Landsat 9
Energeo join Project LEO
Phil Lewis wins Newton Prize funding
Citizen science with Power to the People
South Korea Geostationary satellite
Data analysis from Patrick Gray
Methodology from Descartes Labs
Results of the Second Custom Script Contest
SAR 101

Feb 21, 2020 • 14min
S6SE: MLHub
A special episode where we talk to Hamed Alemohammad about developments with MLHub. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
MLHub

Feb 3, 2020 • 29min
S6E6: Just us
Want to know what it's like working for yourself in the EO sector. We mull it over. In the news we mention GEE, TRUTHS and Satellogic. 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:
Google Dataset Search
Sentinel-5P COGs
GEE Python Notebooks
Events from SpaceAgenda
TRUTHS
Data products from GEDI
Launches from Satellogic
Geoger: What's in a day rate?
Geoger: Why go independent?

Jan 17, 2020 • 30min
S6E5: Geospatial 2.0
We talk to Josh Gilbert and Gopal Erinjippurath about their take on Geospatial 2.0. In the news we mention SentinelHub, Flying Labs and the Australian fires. 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:
SentinelHub batch processing
SentinelHub Land Cover monitoring
We Robotics Flying Labs
Christoph Rieke publishes the blog of the month!
SENSE-CDT is announced
ASTREA notebooks
Update to STAC 0.9
Australian Wildfires
Gopal and Josh's post on Geospatial 2.0

Dec 30, 2019 • 5min
S6 Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Alastair and Andrew hope that you have a great 2020. Thank you for all of your tweets, comments and downloads so far - let's keep going! If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

Dec 17, 2019 • 32min
S6E4: 2 years!
This episode is our 2 year anniversary, so get ready for a relaxed chat about the EO sector as we see it. In the news we mention open books, GEE (again!) and wildfires. 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:
Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data
More than 800 pages of openly available advice
Funding at the ESA ministerial
GEO and GEE join forces
Radiant MLHub

Dec 2, 2019 • 32min
S6E3: a STAC of goodness
We talk to Chris Holmes about STAC and EO more widely. In the news we mention Spelfie, GEE tutorials and open SAR data. 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:
More launches from Planet
GEO/JAXA announces open SAR data
GEE cookbook / tutorial has happened
More funding for Orbital Insight
GEE QGIS plugin
Take a selfie with Spelfie
Check out the latest STAC details

Nov 9, 2019 • 25min
S6E2: is AI hype?
We discuss whether the use of AI in EO is too hyped! In the news we mention Sudan-Sat, gdal and Geotrellis. 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:
Sudan launches SRSS-1
USGS report updates economic value of Landsat archive
STAC Sprint 5 has happened
A new release for GeoTrellis
NASA WorldView
GDAL tutorial from SpatialThoughts
RasterVision
Training data from Big Earth
Hurricanes and Development Seed
Fast.AI


