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. Season 15 is organised, recorded and edited by thriveGEO.
Episodes

Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
S7E3: Up north
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
We chat with Charlotte Bishop GRSG and Norway. In the news we mention the GROW Observatory, Himawari data and GEE (again). 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
Satellites and water management in Africa
AWS hosts Himawari data
Check out the GROW Observatory
Process your data on GEE
Loss of ice mass and gravity measurements
KSAT
GSRG

Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
S7E2: SERVIR
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
We chat with Emil Cherrington from the SERVIR programme. In the news we mention the Amazon rainforest, Syria 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
Some sobering imagery of Syria
SAR video from ICEYE
Shell Gamechanger
ESA Startup Competition
More resources from FastAI
Unidata Python resources
GEO, Google Earth and cultural maps of the Amazon
SERVIR
BelizeGeo Twitter account

Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
S7E1: Career capers
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
We'll stop talking careers after this one, and get back to pure EO. Honest. In the news we mention Zooniverse, SAR 101 and Energeo. Amongst other things. You can listen to S7E1, S6E6 and S2E3 as a mini-series about jobs in the EO sector. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefromShownotes:
Australian wildfires from ABC
News about Landsat 9
Energeo join Project LEO
Phil Lewis wins Newton Prize funding
Citizen science with Power to the People
South Korea Geostationary satellite
Data analysis from Patrick Gray
Methodology from Descartes Labs
Results of the Second Custom Script Contest
SAR 101

Friday Feb 21, 2020
S6SE: MLHub
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
A special episode where we talk to Hamed Alemohammad about developments with MLHub. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefromShownotes:
MLHub

Monday Feb 03, 2020
S6E6: Just us
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Want to know what it's like working for yourself in the EO sector. We mull it over. In the news we mention GEE, TRUTHS and Satellogic. 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
Google Dataset Search
Sentinel-5P COGs
GEE Python Notebooks
Events from SpaceAgenda
TRUTHS
Data products from GEDI
Launches from Satellogic
Geoger: What's in a day rate?
Geoger: Why go independent?

Friday Jan 17, 2020
S6E5: Geospatial 2.0
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Friday Jan 17, 2020
We talk to Josh Gilbert and Gopal Erinjippurath about their take on Geospatial 2.0. In the news we mention SentinelHub, Flying Labs and the Australian fires. 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
SentinelHub batch processing
SentinelHub Land Cover monitoring
We Robotics Flying Labs
Christoph Rieke publishes the blog of the month!
SENSE-CDT is announced
ASTREA notebooks
Update to STAC 0.9
Australian Wildfires
Gopal and Josh's post on Geospatial 2.0

Monday Dec 30, 2019
S6 Happy New Year
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Happy New Year! Alastair and Andrew hope that you have a great 2020. Thank you for all of your tweets, comments and downloads so far - let's keep going! If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
S6E4: 2 years!
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
This episode is our 2 year anniversary, so get ready for a relaxed chat about the EO sector as we see it. In the news we mention open books, GEE (again!) and wildfires. 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data
More than 800 pages of openly available advice
Funding at the ESA ministerial
GEO and GEE join forces
Radiant MLHub

Monday Dec 02, 2019
S6E3: a STAC of goodness
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
We talk to Chris Holmes about STAC and EO more widely. In the news we mention Spelfie, GEE tutorials and open SAR data. 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
More launches from Planet
GEO/JAXA announces open SAR data
GEE cookbook / tutorial has happened
More funding for Orbital Insight
GEE QGIS plugin
Take a selfie with Spelfie
Check out the latest STAC details

Saturday Nov 09, 2019
S6E2: is AI hype?
Saturday Nov 09, 2019
Saturday Nov 09, 2019
We discuss whether the use of AI in EO is too hyped! In the news we mention Sudan-Sat, gdal and Geotrellis. 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 @eoscenefromShownotes:
Sudan launches SRSS-1
USGS report updates economic value of Landsat archive
STAC Sprint 5 has happened
A new release for GeoTrellis
NASA WorldView
GDAL tutorial from SpatialThoughts
RasterVision
Training data from Big Earth
Hurricanes and Development Seed
Fast.AI