The Scene From Above Podcast

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 @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:

• 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

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 @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:

• 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

We talk to Steve from Impact Observatory. In the news we mention Sisters of SAR, Pelican and Moocs. 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:

• Sisters of SAR website
• Living Planet Symposium
• Demeter
• Planet and Pelican
• AI for Earth Monitoring on Future Learn
• Open EO Cloud and call for early adopters
• Google Earth Engine updates
• Webmap performance
• Impact Observatory
• 10m Land Cover/Land Use map

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 @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:

• 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

This episode features Sabrina Szeto, who is a geospatial consultant who empowers organizations to use geospatial data and technology. She is a Google Developer Expert for Earth Engine. Sabrina has a Masters in Forestry from Yale University and a BA in Anthropology from Princeton University. She also is the co-founder and former Director of Women+ in Geospatial and is currently based near Munich, Germany.

• Website: https://sabrinaszeto.com/our-work
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaSzeto
• Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@sabrinaszeto

Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Aleks Buczkowski: ‘https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/understanding-the-earth-observation-value-chain/’

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Show notes:

• Earth Engine User Meetup YouTube: https://youtube.com/@EarthEngineUserMeetup
• Fostering user-driven learning communities in-person and virtually: Examples from Earth Engine meetups: https://figshare.com/articles/poster/Fostering_user-driven_learning_communities_in-person_and_virtually_Examples_from_Earth_Engine_meetups/21803250
• Earth Engine Community Tutorials:
  • https://sabrinaszeto.com/talks-and-outreach/creating-community-tutorials-for-earth-engine
  • https://github.com/google/earthengine-community/tree/master/tutorials
• Ten Steps to Build an Inclusive Future for the Geo for Good Community: https://medium.com/google-earth/ten-steps-to-build-an-inclusive-future-for-the-geo-for-good-community-9f808000ab28

Women+ in Geospatial:

• Women+ in Geospatial Website: https://www.womeningeospatial.org/
• Women+ in Geospatial Twitter: https://twitter.com/geospatialwomen
• Women+ in Geospatial LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-geospatial/

Hosts:

Dr. Flavia de Souza Mendes https://twitter.com/flasmendes

Dr. Gopika Suresh https://twitter.com/Go__pika

Dr. Morgan Crowley https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley

News correspondent:

Rafaela Tiengo https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_

Rafaela's newsletter: https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/

Previewing our next guest on S13E6:

1. They are a remote sensing research scientist with NASA,
2. They have used SAR, LiDAR and passive optical data in their research,
3. They created the first 3D mangrove forest structure map for Africa.