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.

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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

S8E5: Mouth of Morrison

We talk to Joe Morrison from Azavea about satellite imagery aggregation, and whether it works as a business model. In the news we mention earth.nullschool, QGIS and S1/S2 ARD code. 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:

• Catch-up content from Geo for Good
• The JNCC S1/S2 ARD list 
• Cell analysis in QGIS announced
• A reminder of earth.nullschool which has been updated
• 30 Day Map Challenge
• Azavea
• Joe on Twitter

S8E4: Disaster Monitoring

We talk to David Borges from NASA about using EO for disaster monitoring and response. In the news we mention Sentinel, the podcast (meta!) and machine 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:

• Sentinel free on AWS again - as a COG
• Sentinel HR moves forward
• Radiant Earth's "State of ML" resources
• We are now on Spotify 
• NASA Applied Sciences Disasters Program Website
• CEOS WGDisasters Website
• Joint NASA, ESA, JAXA COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard
• GEO Disaster Risk Reduction WG

SFA Snapshots: 4

Welcome to Scene From Above Snapshots - quickfire discussions on various topics. Enjoy!  If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

Recorded at the start of lockdown!