The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

I have to break my promise to you in the short term in order to keep it in the long term.      Podcast recommendations  Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin - an episode called Ignore sunk costs Hidden Brain How I Built This With Guy Raz - Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler Minds Behind Maps    

GEDI stands for Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation so, No, I have not misspelled JEDI  This episode is all about using space Lidar to make precise measurements of forest canopy height, canopy vertical structure with the goal of measuring the carbon content of the world's forests.   Find out more about GEDI here: https://gedi.umd.edu/   Other LiDAR related podcast episodes that you might find interesting OPEN TOPOGRAPHY - INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TOPOGRAPHIC DATA LiDAR From Drones The Earth Archive PDAL - POINT DATA ABSTRACTION LIBRARY   Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping

Urbansky is using stratospheric balloons as an earth observation platform! you might be wondering how you steer a balloon? keep it at a stable height? or get it back to earth?  ... if you are wondering how all of this is possible then you are in luck! this episode is for you   Follow UrbanSky on Twitter  https://twitter.com/urbanskyimaging   Some interesting balloon related links 14 minutes from earth ( YouTube Trailer )  https://worldview.space/ https://x.company/projects/loon/ https://www.zero2infinity.space/     Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping    

This episode is not just about how to be better at teaching and helping students learn geospatial skills and concepts, it's also about building and selling online courses. It's about education as a service and how we make the service as assessable as possible. But more broadly, it's about being better communicators and helping people get to where they are trying to go.   Connect with Hans on Twitter and follow along on YouTube https://twitter.com/hansakwast https://www.youtube.com/c/HansvanderKwast   Qiusheng Wu ( inspirational educator ) https://wetlands.io/   https://bigbluebutton.org/  https://kahoot.com/ https://wonder.me/ https://courses.gisopencourseware.org/ https://moodle.org/ https://h5p.org/     Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping      

Microsoft is building a Planetary Computer. The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs, a flexible scientific environment that allows users to answer global questions about that data, and applications that put those answers in the hands of conservation stakeholders. https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/   For a podcast episode about Google Earth Engine just have a look back through the podcast archive of click this link https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/introducing-google-earth-engine     Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping    

This is not a deep dive technical explanation of all things Landsat, it's a brief overview of the Landsat mission, what it takes to launch a Landsat satellite, how the data get back to earth, and what it is used for.   There is also a brief discussion of Landsat next ... the future of Landsat ;)    You can access Landsat data here https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/data Or via STAC here https://landsat.stac.cloud/?t=catalogs   Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping    

Learn about OSGO Live, a self-contained environment for open source geospatial tools. Discover the involvement and goals of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Explore the applications of OSGO Live in education, research, and industry. Find out about the features and tools available on live.osgeo.org. Understand how software projects are chosen for inclusion in OSG Live.

This is not a podcast episode about collecting data from a plane! it's a podcast episode about the possibilities of large-scale aerial mapping using only RGB data and the challenges you face along the way.   Dr. Michael Bewley from www.nearmap.com   Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping

Labels matter and if we are talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning then they matter a lot! but what is labeled data? how is it different from tagging, annotating, or segmentation?    This podcast episode is an introduction to creating training data for AI algorithms and if you are new to AI or just want to understand it a bit better  go back into the podcast archive and check out the episode called "An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence"   Thanks to Mallory Dodd from iMerit.net   Check out https://geoawesomeness.com/   Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Learn more at https://mapscaping.com Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping   

Perhaps you have thought about starting your own Geospatial business or maybe you are just curious about the kind of people that do venture into the world of entrepreneurship within the geospatial industry. Carly Morris, head of Geovation gives us an insight into the kind of geospatial founders she is looking for and the kinds of problems these founders are solving.    If you are interested in starting your own business then this podcast episode is for you!.   Connect with Carly on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlymorris/   Remember to Subscribe :)  and Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/ Or Twitter https://twitter.com/MapScaping