The Scene From Above Podcast

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.
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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.
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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