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!

S8E3: Conference Chat

We have a chat about what we want from a conference. In the news we mention that Planet/KSAT/Airbus contract, GHGSat and SCP. 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, KSAT and Airbus come together for forestry
• The Kenya Space Agency are being proactive
• ICEYE funding round C
• GHGSat and Sentinel-5P applications from ESA and the BBC
• The Semi-automatic Classification Plugin developed for Sentinel-1 and GOES 
• The 2018 SatSummit webpage

S8E2: Platform Proliferation

We have a chat about whether there is platform overload. In the news we mention Sentinel 6, STAC and data fusion. 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 Pixalytics blog post
• Blog post on cloud native geospatial
• Post on data fusion
• Sentinel 6 launch date announcement
• EO sector growth projections
• A non-exhaustive list of a few platforms (being named in this episode is not an endorsement nor a criticism, we just wanted to make the point that there are a lot of platforms!):
  • https://sepal.io/
  • http://beeoda.org/
  • https://lpdaacsvc.cr.usgs.gov/appeears/
  • https://ceos-cove.org/en/
  • http://www.openforis.org/
  • https://adamplatform.eu
  • https://picterra.ch/
  • https://eos.com/platform/

SFA Snapshots: 3

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!

SFA Snapshots: Summer Special

Welcome to the 2020 Scene From Above Summer Special Snapshot. Enjoy! Shownotes for all episodes can be found via http://scenefromabove.org, https://geoger.co.uk/podcast/ or at http://www.acgeospatial.co.uk/podcasts/. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

S8E1: SpaceNet

We have a fascinating discussion about the SpaceNet Challenges. In the news we mention geopandas, methane and Brazil Data Cube. 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:

• A new release for Geopandas
• Check out Brazil Data Cube
• Relaxed spatial resolution over Israel
• Methane post 1
• Methane post 2
• SpaceNet Challenges