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Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
We interview Simon Agass about a new data release from the Space for Smarter Government programme. In the news we mention FOSS4G:UK, competitions and ice truckers. 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:
Data Sci and Satellite Imagery: Andrew's post of the month
Development Seed have updated sat-utils
Water scarcity as a GEE app
Sentinel-Hub script competition
Monitoring ice and ice truckers
A land cover monitoring system for Afghanistan
FOSS4G:UK call for papers and workshops
FOSS4G 2019 EO competition
UK Space for Smarter Government Programme As of 7th May 2021 this initiative came to an end.
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Cubesats are all the rage, but what are they and why should we care? In the news we mention GEOS, machine learning and a greener world. 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:
How accurate is machine learning? Andrew's post of the month
Machine learning data 1: BigEarthNet
Machine learning data 2: Dataset list
The world is getting greener?
Paul Ramsey and Martin Davis will be working on GEOS
Homework: the EARSC DIAS comparison
Article on smallsats
Cubesats at CSIRO
Interview with Peter Beck at RocketLab
Build your own cubesat
Planet back in the day
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
In this episode we interview Kate Doyle of 2ExcelGeo about aerial data collection and finding work after university. In the news we mention SAR software, UK Space growth and Sensat. 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:
The UK space sectore is creating jobs
ESRI ArcGIS Notebooks
A new SAR-bot called Synthetic Aperture Random
SAR software #1: HyP3
SAR software #2: S1 Tiling
ALL the pixels from the rather impressive Sensat
GLOBE Adopt a Pixel
The 2ExcelGeo website
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
In this episode we interview Dr Cai Bird of Marlan Maritime Technologies about a very nifty radar system. In the news we mention WorldView 4, ESA budgets and Python tutorials. 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:
Maxar reports the loss of the WorldView-4 satellite
Online GLCF portal is closed down
Earth observation gets a good chunk of the ESA Budget
Satellogic is good to go!
MODIS VIIRS Client
Patrick Gray releases Python tutorial notebooks
Anak Krakatau imaged by ICEYE
Marlan Maritime Synoptic technology
A paper on the Marlan method
Will you be at the Big Data from Space conference?
Sunday Dec 23, 2018
Sunday Dec 23, 2018
It's been a whole year of the Scene From Above podcast. Thank you so much for all your support. In this episode we talk about some of the predictions we made in February in S1 E3. In the news we mention Boundless and Planet, Metop-C and DigitalGlobe. 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:
Planet to acquire Boundless
Hottest companies in satellite technology
Active users on the SciHub is 33k
DigitalGlobe images are stunning
ICESAT updates
METOP-C ends an era of meteorological satellites
Hyperscout creates onboard ARD
Saturday Dec 08, 2018
Saturday Dec 08, 2018
In this episode we talk to Anne Hale Miglarese, CEO of the Radiant Earth Foundation, about the Foundation's plans and platform as well as the state of modern EO. In the news we mention GEE and S5P, AWS Groundstations, GOES and OpenEO. 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:
Russian Progress launch filmed from the ISS (apologies, in the podcast Alastair states that it's a US launch site)
More GEE and S5P chat
AWS announce their Groundstation service
Imagery available from GOES-17
Happy 1-year anniversary OpenEO
Images from NovoSAR
Congratulations to Sean Quegan's group for winning the NERC Economic Impact Award 2018
Andrew's video of the month: Nyall Dawson
Check out The Radiant Earth Foundation
Andrew is going to be at GRSG 2018 so go say hello!
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
In this episode we talk about open source software for EO and geospatial analysis. In the news we mention a whole host of things including whales, Sentinel HR, eo-learn and phi-week. 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:
Identifying whales from satellite imagery
Blog post about the Sentinel HR proposal
Mapping dams from space
Introducing eo-learn
$2M contract awarded to Radiant Solutions
Take the time to check out some of the work done by John Murray
YouTube playlist for ESA Phi-Week
The global OSGeo page
OSGeo:UK the UK chapter
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
In this episode we talk about quite a few of the satellites that are used for EO studies. But we still get hung up on the Sentinels and Landsat! In the news we discuss the release of Raster Vision, Reddit and Sentinel Hub's education pages. 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 releases from Sentinel 5P
A tweet about a cool Sentinel data finder in a Jupyter notebook
A Reddit discussion about RS vs GIS
OMG! The release of Raster Vision
The Sentinel Hub Education page
The ESA Concurrent Engineering Workshop
Industry Connections from BARSC
That Sentinel 3 viewer again. Because it's so good!
The list that started all this sensor/satellite chat.
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
In this episode we talk about the importance of getting data disseminated through the web and whether EO scientists are in demand as web developers use APIs to create cool apps. In the news we discuss Google Earth Engine, financing and ocean robots. 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 release Earth Engine Apps
That Brexit tweet
Rezatec secure investment
Capella Space win investment
Orbital Insight acquire FeatureX
UrthCast announce $25m contract
Planet and Orbital Insight partnership announced
Ocean mapping X prize
New NASA space debris report
Competition announced by Open Cosmos and ESA
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
In this episode we talk about how the Earth Observation sector identifies itself. In the news we discuss Remote Pixel, Aeolus, icebergs and Google Dataset Search. 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:
Remote Pixel's issues with site scraping described in this blog post
Aeolus - it's all over Twitter and the mainstream media!
Larsen C update
Cloud free mosaic of France
Google Dataset Search
A critical blog post from SentinelHub on the state of EO