The Scene From Above Podcast

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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!

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

In this episode we talk about quite a few of the satellites that are used for EO studies. But we still get hung up on the Sentinels and Landsat! In the news we discuss the release of Raster Vision, Reddit and Sentinel Hub's education pages. 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 releases from Sentinel 5P A tweet about a cool Sentinel data finder in a Jupyter notebook A Reddit discussion about RS vs GIS OMG! The release of Raster Vision The Sentinel Hub Education page The ESA Concurrent Engineering Workshop Industry Connections from BARSC That Sentinel 3 viewer again. Because it's so good! The list that started all this sensor/satellite chat.

In this episode we talk about the importance of getting data disseminated through the web and whether EO scientists are in demand as web developers use APIs to create cool apps. In the news we discuss Google Earth Engine, financing and ocean robots. 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 release Earth Engine Apps That Brexit tweet Rezatec secure investment Capella Space win investment Orbital Insight acquire FeatureX UrthCast announce $25m contract Planet and Orbital Insight partnership announced Ocean mapping X prize New NASA space debris report Competition announced by Open Cosmos and ESA