The Scene From Above Podcast

S12E6: PC/GEE

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  

S12E5: Takeover 2 - inclusive futures

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 

S12E4: Takeover

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

S12E3: Thank News 2

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 

S12E2: Thank News

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

S12E1: What do we do?

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

S11E6: Four Years

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

S11E5: Include everyone

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

Special episode

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!  

S11E4: The Socials

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...