S10E3: TileDB

We talk to Stavros and Norman from TileDB. In the news we mention GEE again and R! 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:

• awesome-gee-community-datasets code & datasets
• SAR Watcher! and awesome-earth-engine-apps 
• Introducing G.AI.A - the promises and pitfalls in using AI in conservation
• Superpixels in R from Jakub Nowosad 
• Alastair's new job as Sparkgeo lead in the UK 
• TileDB
• TileDB and geospatial
• Norman's presentation to Radiant Earth

S10E2: Tyler Talks GEE

We talk to Tyler Erickson from Google about Google Earth Engine. In the news we mention launches, the EO clinic and Digital Earth Africa! 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 ethics of using geospatial data 
• Interesting use cases from the EO Clinic:
• Satellite Vu on its way to a thermal constellation
• Alba Orbital funding round 
• Albedo funding round
• Continuing the trend of high quality tutorials in 2021 
• Digital Earth Africa  portal and training 
• Best Available Pixel on Github and GEE
• Earth Outreach digital event hub
• Geo for Good Summit 2020
• Publishing an Earth Engine App to Accompany your Research Paper
• Earth Engine Community pages 

  Training Resources 

S10E1: SAR ML with Shay

We talk to Shay Strong from Iceye about SAR, machine learning and more. In the news we mention the MEGA NEWS and hackathons! 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 Mega News
  • Microsoft Planetary computer
  • Google Earth timelapse
  • Planet Carbonmapper
  • GDAL financial support
  • RSGISlib on Twitter
  • awesome-gee-community-datasets catalog 
• Is EO starting to go mainstream? 
• Geo-Podcasts list
• Noel Gorelick Medium posts
• ICESAT2 Hackweek
• Going nuts about Geopandas
• SpaceNet 6
• Iceye
• Iceye flood monitoring: 
• EO College Echoes in Space - Intro to Radar Remote Sensing: 
• GitHub SAR tools: 
• Shay on Twitter
• Shay on Medium 

S9E6: Vincent Sarago

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

S9E5: GEO

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

S9E4: Viability

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

S9E3: SOS

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. 

S9E2: Care about COGs

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/ 

S9E1: 3 years!

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

S8E6: GEE with Keiko

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