The Scene From Above Podcast

S03 E05: One year on!

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

S03 E04: The Radiant Earth Foundation

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!

S03 E03: Open sauced

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

S03 E02: All the satellites!

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.

S03 E01: Web devs and EO scientists

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

S02 E06: Are we in the space sector?

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

S02 E05: How important is GDAL?

In this episode we discuss GDAL and the pivotal role it has to play in the world of Earth observation and geospatial. In the news we talk about hydrology, how the public view space, sector growth and The Wedding Present! 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:
Space priorities: 3% of people think going to the moon is important, but 43% felt climate change was most important
Sector growth article
How many small sats? 7000. Really?
Monitoring ground deformation in Southern California
The first Satellite Data Interoperability Workshop is go!
The rather good, The Wedding Present
GDAL homepage
GDAL cheatsheet on GitHub
Andrew's GDAL tips
gdalinfo image.tif > stats.txt
gdal_translate -b 1 input.tif output.tif
pktools - extended GDAL!

S02 E04: A chat with CloudEO

In this episode we interview Maria from CloudEO about what they are looking to do with their data search and provision platform. In the news we talk about the EASRSC awards, Sentinel-5P and fire monitoring. 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:
Sentinel-5P data are now available
EO-Compass releases an awesome Sentinel metadata site
Copernicus EMS monitors fires in the UK and elsewhere
Sinergise and Dust Frequency Maps are winners at the EARSC awards
If the Moon were only one pixel!

S02 E03: Bonus!

Recording ourselves together in the same room doesn't mean things go smoothly. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

S02 E03: U got skillz?

In this episode we record ourselves together in the same room for the first time, and discuss what skills are useful to have if you want to get a job dealing with EO imagery, and whether those skills have changed over the decades. In the news we talk about the Geospatial Commission and MasterMap, Sentinel-5P and space harpoons! 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:
As we were both in the same building at the same time, we grabbed a seat in the Satellite Applications Catapult which is part of the Harwell Space Cluster
 Geospatial Commission moves to open up parts of OS MasterMap
Sentinel-5P maps of Formaldehyde
Airbus are in the news! TerraSAR-X tasking and links with Planet.
PakTES-1A launch announced
SSTL launches RemoveDebris space harpoon!