The Scene From Above Podcast

We talk about Google Earth Engine and Microsoft's Planetary Computer. In the news we mention GOES, Pelican and Worldcover. 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: Worldcover 2021 is coming Global building footprint database  GOES-18 launched in March Pelican Geomob podcast - whats new in EO? Landsat Next is going to have all the bands! Geo for Good 2022 apply now (before 13th June for in person) Dames of Drones  Women of Waveforms  Google Earth Engine   Planetary Computer  

We don't talk in this episode :-)  Instead, we gave over full editorial direction to our friends at Ladies of Landsat and Sisters of SAR who decided the format and topic for this show. Enjoy this brilliant discussion. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom Shownotes: Living Planet Symposium Session - “Cultivating an inclusive future in Remote Sensing & Earth Observation” Sisters of SAR (SoS) Ladies of Landsat (LoL) Meninas da Geotecnologia RSATE Group Flávia: https://twitter.com/flasmendes Gopika: https://twitter.com/Go__Pika Morgan: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley Kate: https://twitter.com/katefickas Meghan: https://twitter.com/mhalabisky1 Klara: https://twitter.com/kj_winkler   500 Women in Science Gage Speaker Database Women+ in Geospatial Speaker Database SoS Become An Ally LoL Manuscript Monday Github GeoLatina’s Friday Feature in Geo Careers at Planet: https://www.planet.com/company/careers/jobs/ Spatial Thoughts Free Programming Courses Harvard Programming courses (free) Introduction to JavaScript for Earth Engine Recorded Earth Engine SG Series 

We don't talk in this episode :-)  Instead, we gave over full editorial direction to our friends at Ladies of Landsat and Sisters of SAR who decided the format and topic for this show. Enjoy this brilliant discussion. 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 paper being discussed Ladies of Landsat Sisters of SAR Polyanna’s Twitter RSATE group Letter from RSATE published in Science Magazine about the cuts to research funding in Brazil UMAIN website UMAIN youtube UMAIN twitter Geography EDI working group

We talk about some great folks in the community - and then only have time for the news. In the news we mention Cloud Native Outreach Day, SNAP and Microsoft. 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: Interesting breakdown of EO satellites I'm not sure I really understand this but it sounds cool New Impact Observatory data are here Cloud Native Outreach Day is coming  This city does not exist SNAP 9 is coming Labelling tool from Microsoft 

We talk about some great folks in the community - for so long that we only have time for the news. In the news we mention LiDAR, GEO and Landsat 9. 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 imagery is now available  Satellogic get funding to $150M and NASDAQ listed - don't take your eyes off these folks!  Blog of the month?  Microsoft releases Torchgeo  RSGISLIB v5 is out  LiDAR for the whole of France  ML market news

We talk about why it's so hard to simply and accurately state what it is we do to people outside the profession. In the news we mention Sentinel 1B, launches and ARD. 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 1B power issues Tonga EO market share What is Kaggle used for? A great ARD post Mort Canty's resources on GEE Loads of stuff launched Hidden EO voices Steven's tweet

We talk about the year that's just passed and also the 4 years that we have been podcasting. In the news we mention GEDI, Callisto 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: Have you landed on MLHub recently? Iceye to provide X-band SAR to MDA 10cm imagery! Earth Engine converts the lot to a STAC catalog GEDI in GEE eg Keiko, e.g. Emil  iScanForest - https://iscanforest.fld.czu.cz/ Digital Earth Australia Coastlines updates and portal  Callisto looks like an interesting project  Heads up again for the Brazil Data Cube    Nanalyze finance stuff The SPAC Shack  Andrew's review of 2021

We talk to Flavia Mendes about inclusion in EO. In the news we mention 30 Day Map Challenge, floods and geo4good. 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: 30 Days of Maps GEO Highlights report geo4good Google Wants to Save the Planet With Satellite Images Floods in British Columbia PhD opportunity with Qiusheng Wu Robin's DL repo passes 2K stars Flavia on Twitter Benefits of gender diversity Geomixer You can hear more from Flavia here Groups and people to look up on Twitter Role models: @LianaAmazonia (in Brazil) @VinhasLubia (in Brazil) @yhasmoura (from Brazil, but live in UK) @polybispo (from Brazil, but lives in UK) @YanaGevorgyan1 (from Group on Earth Observation) RSATE group: @rsategroup UMAIN (You May Act for Inclusion): @GeoDiversityInc Group of women in Brazil: @meninasdageo @mothersinsci Manel Watch (to report): @ManelWatchAU @ManelWatchUS Global organisations @LadiesOfLandsat @SistersofSAR @geospatialwomen

A fun episode created entirely from outtakes from the podcast recording sessions and edited together to (try and) make some coherent content. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording and editing it together!  

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...