The Scene From Above Podcast
A show that brings you informal discussions about the cool things in the world of Earth observation. If you have questions, comments or corrections about this podcast then you can contact us on Twitter using @eoscenefrom or on LinkedIn. Organised, recorded and edited by geoinclusion
Episodes
Monday Feb 08, 2021
S9E3: SOS
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
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.
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
S9E2: Care about COGs
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
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/
Friday Dec 18, 2020
S9E1: 3 years!
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
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
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
S8E6: GEE with Keiko
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
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
Monday Nov 09, 2020
S8E5: Mouth of Morrison
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
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
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
S8E4: Disaster Monitoring
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
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
Friday Oct 16, 2020
SFA Snapshots: 4
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
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!
Monday Oct 05, 2020
S8E3: Conference Chat
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
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
Friday Sep 04, 2020
S8E2: Platform Proliferation
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
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/
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
SFA Snapshots: 3
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
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!