The Scene From Above Podcast

In this episode, we speak with Swetha Kolluri, who works on AI and Digital Innovations at the World Bank. Previously serving as Head of Experimentation at UNDP in India, Swetha has dedicated her career to applying frontier technologies to social and environmental challenges. With her background spanning rural development, data science, and sustainability initiatives across India and the US, she brings unique perspectives on transformative solutions using AI and cloud computing. In this conversation, Swetha shares insights from her work designing innovative development experiments, and her vision for how earth observation, citizen science and AI can address global challenges such as environmental degradation and climate change. She also shares some tips managing cloud costs for organisations who may have low resource bases. --- Sign-up for thriveGEO's Cloud-Native Geospatial 101 training and use the exclusive discount code CNGPODCAST - https://bit.ly/geospatial_cloud ---   More about Swetha: LinkedIn -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/swetha-kolluri/   Projects that Swetha mentioned in the episode: GeoAI for brick kilns in India. This digital innovation applied AI to detect 48,287 brick kilns from satellite data with an accuracy of 96%, empowering environmental regulators in India to expedite climate action.  https://geo-ai.undp.org.in/   DiCRA (Data in Climate Resilient Agriculture) is an accredited digital public good (DPG) that has democratized satellite data for informing climate finance in agriculture. This innovation provided data and intelligence on climate resilience across 50 million hectares of agriculture land across 7 states in India. https://github.com/undpindia/dicra   ‘VAYU – OpenAir' with open software, open algorithms and open data collected on air pollution produced through hyperlocal mapping of air pollution in two cities - Patna and Gurgaon. This dataset is used to map point sources of air pollution and enable cities take action on specific sources.  https://github.com/undpindia/VAYU_OpenAir   More about thriveGEO - https://thrivegeo.com/

Welcome to Season 15, during which we will host a series of conversations around the question: 'Is the future of geospatial in the cloud?' With ever increasing amounts of satellite data and computational power available, moving geospatial workflows to the cloud opens the doors to powerful insights. But what does it take to really switch to doing things in a cloud-native way? Let's find out together. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Brianna R. Pagán, Deputy Manager of the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data Information Centre. In her current role, Brianna is responsible for orchestrating the transition to the cloud while managing various engineering, science, and data curation teams. She has also recently been appointed as an Editorial Board member of the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum. Brianna shares about her career trajectory, her reflections on the intersection of technology, climate change and social justice, why she believes that the future of geospatial is all about collaboration and how the cloud is one piece of the puzzle… --- Sign-up for our Cloud-Native Geospatial 101 training and use the exclusive discount code CNGPODCAST - https://bit.ly/geospatial_cloud   --- More about Brianna: Website - https://www.briannapagan.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianna-r-pagán-phd-8a49a46b  More about Openscapes - https://openscapes.org/   More about the NASA TOPS initiative - https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/    Watch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/HB9ycjEsg0M  --- Season 15 of Scene from Above is brought to you by thriveGEO. 

Welcome to Season 15, during which we will host a series of conversations around the question: 'Is the future of geospatial in the cloud?' With ever increasing amounts of satellite data and computational power available, moving geospatial workflows to the cloud opens the doors to powerful insights. But what does it take to really switch to doing things in a cloud-native way? Let's find out together. In the first episode, we talk to Jed Sundwall, the Executive Director of Radiant Earth. Jed has been instrumental in bringing open geospatial data to the cloud. Under Radiant Earth, he started two initiatives, the ‘CNG - the cloud-native geospatial forum' and the ‘source cooperative'. In this conversation, Jed will shed some light on where he sees the geospatial industry heading... --- Sign-up for our Cloud-Native Geospatial 101 training and use the exclusive discount code CNGPODCAST - https://bit.ly/geospatial_cloud   --- Github discussion about the definition of cloud-native geospatial data - https://github.com/cloudnativegeo/cloudnativegeo.org/issues/18  More about Jed: Website - https://jed.co/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedsundwall/  More about Radiant Earth - https://radiant.earth/  More about the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) - https://cloudnativegeo.org/    Watch this episode on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-86IH4DouY  --- Season 15 of Scene from Above is brought to you by thriveGEO. 

In the first episode of Season 14, we talk to Dr. Vivian Ribeiro about the challenges and opportunities of the new European Union Deforestation free Regulation (EUDR) in the Earth Observation Sector. Dr. Vivian Ribeiro is a senior data scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute and currently leads the spatial intelligence team in the Trase - Intelligence for Sustainable Trade initiative. She is also the co-founder and technical coordinator of the Do Pasto ao Prato app, a collaborative initiative aimed at increasing transparency in the Brazilian meat industry. Vivian holds degrees in biology from the University of Goias and masters and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Brasilia Twitter: https://twitter.com/vivihrbr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-ribeiro-276357a8/   Shownotes: Do Pasto ao Prato: https://www.dopastoaoprato.com.br/ Trase: www.trase.earth   Season 14 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Muthukumar featured on S14E1: https://bit.ly/EUDREarthObservation   News Correspondent:  Rafaela Tiengo: https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_ Subscribe to Rafaela's Newsletter! https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/   Hosts, co-host and organizers: Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fl%C3%A1via-de-souza-mendes-phd-1456362b/ Dr. Yhasmin Mendes de Moura https://www.linkedin.com/in/yhasmoura/ Dr. Michelle Picoli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-picoli-234709a2/   Editor and translation: Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.  

In the last episode of Season 13, we talk to Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo about SAR, LiDAR, passive multispectral data, mangroves, biomass estimation, carbon stocks, payment ecosystem services, science communication & much more.  Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, is a NASA scientist!! She is Research Scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center based in Maryland, USA, where she studies forest ecology and ecosystem structure with multi-source remote sensing. Dr. Fatoyinbo has a Doctorate in Environmental sciences from University of Virginia, with a focus on Forest Ecology and Remote Sensing of Mangrove Wetlands. She serves on the GEDI and ICESat-2 Mission Science Teams and is Principal investigator on NASA Earth Science research.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/EarthToLola Research: https://mangrovescience.org/ NASA Directory Page: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/lola.fatoyinbo    Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Ishveena Singh featured on S13E6: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/esa-biomass-maps-climate-change/    Stay tuned for a bonus episode this summer to round out Season 13 of Scene From Above recapping the season and prospecting what comes next. And as always, thanks for listening!   Shownotes: Dr. Fatoyinbo's 2011 Presidential Early Career Award: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2012/12-064.html  Minecraft Mangrove Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkR6xX_v0pw Mangrove Science Data Portal: https://mangrovescience.org/data-portal-2/ Global Mangrove Dataset: https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1665 NASA Biodiversity: https://cce.nasa.gov/biodiversity/ Dr. Sassan Saatchi: https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/saatchi/  Dr. Marc Simard twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcLovesEarth Dr. Woody Turner: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/about/our-team/woody-turner    S13E6 News Links: A new web-based mapping application: Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer:https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/imagery/global-land-cover-revealed/?adusf=twitter&aduc=esri_conserv&adut=341c8636-83a0-4da0-859d-54ffafe29c71  ESA's wind mission helps to investigate the nature of volcanic plumes:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27021-0#Abs1  Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor Anomaly:https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/news/recent-landsat-9-tirs-anomaly-pauses-processing-new-landsat-9-data  ESA Biomass satellite will be launched in 2024:https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2023/02/24/esa-biomass-satellite-set-to-map-earths-essential-old-growth-forests/amp/    News Correspondent:  Rafaela Tiengo: https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_ Subscribe to Rafaela's Newsletter! https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/   Hosts: Dr. Gopika Suresh: https://twitter.com/Go__pika  Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://twitter.com/flasmendes  Dr. Morgan Crowley: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley 

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

This episode features Dr. Lujia Feng, a Principal Research fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She  is a geodesist who is trained as a geologist and geophysicist and now explores the atmosphere. In her research, Dr. Feng uses GNSS to study natural hazards related to tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes and climate. Listen in as Dr. Gopika Suresh talks to Dr. Lujia Feng about Southeast Asia, seismology, atmospheric water vapour from GNSS, challenges of being an immigrant and how diverse voices bring diverse perspectives to remote sensing.  Dr. Lujia Feng: EOS page https://earthobservatory.sg/about-us/our-people/feng-lujia Dr. Lujia Feng's Email: lfeng@ntu.edu.sg  -------- Show notes: Research paper about Earthquake in Costa Rica:  The paper before the earthquake:  Feng, L., Newman, A. V., Protti, M., González, V., Jiang, Y., & Dixon, T. H. (2012). Active deformation near the Nicoya Peninsula, Northwestern Costa Rica, between 1996 and 2010: Interseismic megathrust coupling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JB009230 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012jb009230 A paper describing the story after the earthquake Protti, M., González, V., Newman, A. V., Dixon, T. H., Schwartz, S. Y., Marshall, J. S., et al. (2014). Nicoya earthquake rupture anticipated by geodetic measurement of the locked plate interface. Nature Geoscience, 7(2), 117–121. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2038 https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2038 SuGAr Network: https://earthobservatory.sg/research/tectonics/geodesy-group/sumatran-tectonic-geodesy-sugar- Exploring the Application of GPS for Climate Research https://earthobservatory.sg/news/blog/exploring-the-application-of-gps-for-climate-research Dr. Feng's role model: Prof. Kristine M. Larson (https://www.kristinelarson.net/) What is GPS? https://earthobservatory.sg/earth-science-education/earth-science-faqs/miscellaneous/what-is-gps What are the uses of GPS? https://earthobservatory.sg/earth-science-education/earth-science-faqs/miscellaneous/what-are-the-uses-of-gps Earth Science FAQs - Geology and Tectonics https://earthobservatory.sg/earth-science-education/earth-science-faqs/geology-and-tectonics 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://www.getrevue.co/profile/rafaelatiengo   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/'   Our next speaker: They are a self-employed Earth observation expert, They are a long-time user of Google Earth Engine, They cofounded Women+ in Geospatial.    

This episode features Dr. Tahisa Kuck, Science and Technology Analyst at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Brazilian Air Force and Professor Tatiana Pará, professor at the Federal Institute of Pará.  Professor Tatiana has a master's degree in development and management of the Amazon. She works with university extension taking geoprocessing tools to remote communities, promoting inclusion of girls and women in the world of STEM. She founded the group MENINAS DA GEO  and is entrepreneurial with stewardship activities and collaborative mapping. She mentors the Youthmappers IFPA chapter and has several research activities regarding monitoring deforestation in the Amazon. Her focus is to insert new people into basic education that can use geotechnologies as a tool for decision making. Dr. Tahisa has a PhD in Applied Geosciences from University of Brasilia, Master in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research - INPE. Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism. Member of the research group RSATE (Remote Sensing Applied to Tropical Environments). She works with research in the area of microwave remote sensing (SAR) and machine learning for tropical forests. At Institute for Advanced Studies, she is part of the PITER-N project team, whose research focuses on the autonomy of night flights of drones based on computer vision. Listen to hosts Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes and Dr. Yhasmis Mendes talk to them about this and more in this episode.    Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub that we featured on the episode this week: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/ Shownotes: Dr. Tahisa Kuck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatakuck Dr. Tahisa Kuck on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahisakuck/ Tatiana Pará on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tatiparah/ Meninas da Geo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meninasdageo/ Paper "Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01026-5 Prefeitura de Ananindeua investe na capacitação de mulheres ribeirinhas: https://www.ananindeua.pa.gov.br/semcat/noticia/71/prefeitura-de-ananindeua-investe-na-capacitacao-de-mulheres-ribeirinhas Meninas e mulheres da ciência fazem a diferença no IFPA e no Pará: https://ifpa.edu.br/ultimas-noticias/1436-meninas-e-mulheres-da-ciencia-fazem-a-diferenca-no-ifpa-e-no-para Brazil's Amazon Soy Moratorium reduced deforestation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00194-5 TerraBrasilis (PRODES/DETER): http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/en/home-page/ RSATE (Remote Sensing Applied to Tropical Environments) on twitter: https://twitter.com/rsategroup Geoawesomeness EU hub: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/ Rafaela's newsletter: https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/     Hosts: Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://twitter.com/flasmendes Dr. Yhasmin Mendes de Moura: https://twitter.com/yhasmoura   News correspondent: Rafaela Tiengo https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_   Edition: Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes   Three facts for the next episode: Our guest is a structural geologist Resides in what is commonly called 'the little red dot' We will talk about the importance of GNSS for monitoring different Earth processes like tectonic motion & atmospheric water vapour monitoring!

This episode features Dr. Karen Joyce, an Associate Professor at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. Dr. Joyce is an innovator of all things Earth Observations from science to creating community. In her research, she explores novel usages of drone platforms building upon her experience in the military. Outside of her research, she is an entrepreneur who has led the development of the GEONadir drone data sharing and processing platform as well as created an educational network and resources for introducing young girls to UAVs called Shemaps. She is also a founder of the Dames of Drones network! Listen to hosts Dr. Morgan Crowley and Dr. Gopika Suresh talk to her about this and more in this episode.  Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Justyna Więcławska that we featured on the episode this week: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/how-satellite-data-helps-us-understand-climate-change/  Shownotes: Dr. Karen Joyce at James Cook University: https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/karen.joyce/ Dr. Karen Joyce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrKJoyce  Dr. Karen Joyce's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DrKJoyce  GEONadir: https://geonadir.com/  Shemaps: https://shemaps.com/  Dames of Drones: https://twitter.com/DamesOfDrones Discovering inclusivity in Remote Sensing: https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.869291  Dr. Karen Joyce's episode on The Geoholics podcast: https://thegeoholics.podbean.com/e/145-final/  Rafaela's newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/rafaelatiengo  GEE ebook: https://www.eefabook.org/  ICEYE public archive: https://www.iceye.com/lp/iceye-18000-public-archive  GEDI User Case Studies: https://twitter.com/GEDI_Knights/status/1593260979692998658?s=20&t=GhTgq9MRzQzWGSiBWz7tZw  Pecora: https://pecora22.org/  Geo4Good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIk8MC0kA2o  This episodes hosts are: Gopika: https://twitter.com/Go__pika  Morgan: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley  News correspondent: Rafaela Tiengo https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_   Three facts for the next episode: These ladies are from the same south american country experiencing rapid deforestation but also contributing cutting edge remote sensing knowledge They frequently collaborate in a forest remote sensing cooperative The episode will be recorded in their shared native language with over 280 million native speakers

Ladies of Landsat & Sisters of SAR take over the podcast so expect the unexpected. In this first episode, we tell you about us, our organisations & our missions & visions. You will get to know our contributors and collaborators a little better, learn about their lives, careers and journeys in the field of Remote Sensing and hear about challenges they experienced. You will also hear from our news correspondent, Rafaela Tiengo as she tells you about the latest in Remote Sensing and GIS.  Shownotes: Ladies of Landsat - https://twitter.com/LadiesOfLandsat Sisters of SAR - https://twitter.com/SistersofSAR Sisters of SAR website: https://sistersofsar.wixsite.com/sistersofsar Rafaela Tiengo's Weekly Remote sensing and Geoscience news: http://www.getrevue.co/profile/rafaelatiengo Geoawesomeness: https://geoawesomeness.com/ Geoawesomeness article about our Living Planet Symposium session: https://geoawesomeness.com/recapping-cultivating-an-inclusive-future-in-remote-sensing-and-earth-observation-at-living-planet-symposium-2022/ Previous Scene from Above episodes with Ladies of Landsat & Sisters of SAR: https://scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/s12e5-takeover-2-inclusive-futures/ https://scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/s9e3-sos/ https://scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/s6e1-ladies-of-landsat/ The speakers: Dr. Antara Dasgupta: https://twitter.com/ant_dasgupta Dr. Flavia de Souza Mendes: https://twitter.com/flasmendes Dr. Gopika Suresh https://twitter.com/Go__pika Dr. Kate Fickas https://twitter.com/katefickas Dr. Laura Dingle Robertson https://twitter.com/LDR1 Dr. Morgan Crowley https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley Rafaela Tiengo https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_ Sarah Banks https://twitter.com/SAR_ahBanks Hints for S13E2. Our next speaker: Was in the military Works with drones We'll talk about Sea Cucumber poop!

We finish up our stint on the Scene From Above podcast. In the news we mention STAC, Dynamic Earth and Github. 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: GEE publishes pricing.  Good news all round. STAC browser v3.0 Landsat Enduring Legacy book Dynamic Earth paper generated much discussion on Twitter - A, B, C, D.     Nvidia partners with the UN  Top 10 satellite imagery repos on GitHub (or is it?)

We talk about Google Earth Engine and Microsoft's Planetary Computer. In the news we mention GOES, Pelican and Worldcover. 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: Worldcover 2021 is coming Global building footprint database  GOES-18 launched in March Pelican Geomob podcast - whats new in EO? Landsat Next is going to have all the bands! Geo for Good 2022 apply now (before 13th June for in person) Dames of Drones  Women of Waveforms  Google Earth Engine   Planetary Computer  

We don't talk in this episode :-)  Instead, we gave over full editorial direction to our friends at Ladies of Landsat and Sisters of SAR who decided the format and topic for this show. Enjoy this brilliant discussion. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom Shownotes: Living Planet Symposium Session - “Cultivating an inclusive future in Remote Sensing & Earth Observation” Sisters of SAR (SoS) Ladies of Landsat (LoL) Meninas da Geotecnologia RSATE Group Flávia: https://twitter.com/flasmendes Gopika: https://twitter.com/Go__Pika Morgan: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley Kate: https://twitter.com/katefickas Meghan: https://twitter.com/mhalabisky1 Klara: https://twitter.com/kj_winkler   500 Women in Science Gage Speaker Database Women+ in Geospatial Speaker Database SoS Become An Ally LoL Manuscript Monday Github GeoLatina's Friday Feature in Geo Careers at Planet: https://www.planet.com/company/careers/jobs/ Spatial Thoughts Free Programming Courses Harvard Programming courses (free) Introduction to JavaScript for Earth Engine Recorded Earth Engine SG Series 

We don't talk in this episode :-)  Instead, we gave over full editorial direction to our friends at Ladies of Landsat and Sisters of SAR who decided the format and topic for this show. Enjoy this brilliant discussion. 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 paper being discussed Ladies of Landsat Sisters of SAR Polyanna's Twitter RSATE group Letter from RSATE published in Science Magazine about the cuts to research funding in Brazil UMAIN website UMAIN youtube UMAIN twitter Geography EDI working group

We talk about some great folks in the community - and then only have time for the news. In the news we mention Cloud Native Outreach Day, SNAP and Microsoft. 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: Interesting breakdown of EO satellites I'm not sure I really understand this but it sounds cool New Impact Observatory data are here Cloud Native Outreach Day is coming  This city does not exist SNAP 9 is coming Labelling tool from Microsoft 

We talk about some great folks in the community - for so long that we only have time for the news. In the news we mention LiDAR, GEO and Landsat 9. 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: Landsat 9 imagery is now available  Satellogic get funding to $150M and NASDAQ listed - don't take your eyes off these folks!  Blog of the month?  Microsoft releases Torchgeo  RSGISLIB v5 is out  LiDAR for the whole of France  ML market news

We talk about why it's so hard to simply and accurately state what it is we do to people outside the profession. In the news we mention Sentinel 1B, launches and ARD. 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 1B power issues Tonga EO market share What is Kaggle used for? A great ARD post Mort Canty's resources on GEE Loads of stuff launched Hidden EO voices Steven's tweet

We talk about the year that's just passed and also the 4 years that we have been podcasting. In the news we mention GEDI, Callisto 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 @eoscenefrom Shownotes: Have you landed on MLHub recently? Iceye to provide X-band SAR to MDA 10cm imagery! Earth Engine converts the lot to a STAC catalog GEDI in GEE eg Keiko, e.g. Emil  iScanForest - https://iscanforest.fld.czu.cz/ Digital Earth Australia Coastlines updates and portal  Callisto looks like an interesting project  Heads up again for the Brazil Data Cube    Nanalyze finance stuff The SPAC Shack  Andrew's review of 2021

We talk to Flavia Mendes about inclusion in EO. In the news we mention 30 Day Map Challenge, floods and geo4good. 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: 30 Days of Maps GEO Highlights report geo4good Google Wants to Save the Planet With Satellite Images Floods in British Columbia PhD opportunity with Qiusheng Wu Robin's DL repo passes 2K stars Flavia on Twitter Benefits of gender diversity Geomixer You can hear more from Flavia here Groups and people to look up on Twitter Role models: @LianaAmazonia (in Brazil) @VinhasLubia (in Brazil) @yhasmoura (from Brazil, but live in UK) @polybispo (from Brazil, but lives in UK) @YanaGevorgyan1 (from Group on Earth Observation) RSATE group: @rsategroup UMAIN (You May Act for Inclusion): @GeoDiversityInc Group of women in Brazil: @meninasdageo @mothersinsci Manel Watch (to report): @ManelWatchAU @ManelWatchUS Global organisations @LadiesOfLandsat @SistersofSAR @geospatialwomen

A fun episode created entirely from outtakes from the podcast recording sessions and edited together to (try and) make some coherent content. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording and editing it together!  

We have a chat about how social media and EO match up. In the news we mention DEMs, COP and GEE. 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: Faster GEE image downloads A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units High resolution DEM's - EarthDEM  Worldcover 10m dataset  and Earth Engine app Zarr, COG and TileDB discussions GDAL - new release 3.4 All the COP26 news! Go look online...

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

We discuss issues around disruption in the EO/geo business system. In the news we mention Landsat-9, GDAL 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: Landsat 9 is launched A nice EO based newsletter from Priya Patel Awesome spectral indices Being directly responsible for your career Machine learning resources UK Space Conf and FOSS4G are this week GDAL changes - be aware KTN Pavilion for COP26 Aravind's tweet 

We talk to Ed from the University of Edinburgh. In the news we mention stactools, SPACs and IceCube (not that one!). 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: New updates to stactools including support around Sentinel 1 GRD Reduce GeoTIFF Disk Space Usage with Python  IceCube released by Iceye Investor presentations from Planet and Blacksky #SLICED and its impact Ed Mitchard GEDI GEDI and Python NISAR SENSE Space Intelligence

We talk about EO and digital twins. In the news we mention Remote Pixel, Landsat 9 and STAC. Only those. Not 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: Sensat and Khalid STAC RfP Remote Pixel is done Landsat 9 has a snazzy new page Creating a digital twin of the Earth The Earth archive Microsoft Planetary Computer Destination Earth Smart City Digital Twins Digital Twin Fan Club podcast

We discuss issues about recruitment in the EO and geospatial sectors. In the news we mention RSGISlib,  urban planning and Fregata Space. Only those. Not 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: Sensat and Khalid RSGISlib has a new release coming Fregata Space announcement Urban planning in Vienna  

We talk to Robbi from Geoscience Australia. In the news we mention Earth Blox and MOOCs, Iceye and 10m landcover! 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: Observing Earth from Space MOOC Sentinel-6 data Sponsored SAR data for research ObSERVE 2 aerial surveys 10m Landcover data Digital Earth Australia Coastlines Open Data Cube Digital Earth Australia notebooks and tools repository Robbi's Twitter

We talk to Stavros and Norman from TileDB. In the news we mention GEE again and R! 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: awesome-gee-community-datasets code & datasets SAR Watcher! and awesome-earth-engine-apps  Introducing G.AI.A - the promises and pitfalls in using AI in conservation Superpixels in R from Jakub Nowosad  Alastair's new job as Sparkgeo lead in the UK  TileDB TileDB and geospatial Norman's presentation to Radiant Earth

We talk to Tyler Erickson from Google about Google Earth Engine. In the news we mention launches, the EO clinic and Digital Earth Africa! 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 ethics of using geospatial data  Interesting use cases from the EO Clinic: Satellite Vu on its way to a thermal constellation Alba Orbital funding round  Albedo funding round Continuing the trend of high quality tutorials in 2021  Digital Earth Africa  portal and training  Best Available Pixel on Github and GEE Earth Outreach digital event hub Geo for Good Summit 2020 Publishing an Earth Engine App to Accompany your Research Paper Earth Engine Community pages  Training Resources 

We talk to Shay Strong from Iceye about SAR, machine learning and more. In the news we mention the MEGA NEWS and hackathons! 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 Mega News Microsoft Planetary computer Google Earth timelapse Planet Carbonmapper GDAL financial support RSGISlib on Twitter awesome-gee-community-datasets catalog  Is EO starting to go mainstream?  Geo-Podcasts list Noel Gorelick Medium posts ICESAT2 Hackweek Going nuts about Geopandas SpaceNet 6 Iceye Iceye flood monitoring:  EO College Echoes in Space - Intro to Radar Remote Sensing:  GitHub SAR tools:  Shay on Twitter Shay on Medium 

We talk to Vincent Sarago about COGs and Remote Pixel and more. In the news we mention the Ever Given, LiveEO and 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 @eoscenefrom Shownotes: Ever Given is all over the internet   "The Space Speedometer" LiveEO closed their Series A  The pace of excellent tutorials is incredible: ShadedRelief Earth Data Science GIS Open Courseware NASA Mapbox Remote Pixel Development Seed Cloud Optimised GeoTiff titiler aiocogeo deck.gl-raster

We chat to Phoebe and Angelica about AfriGEO and AmeriGEO. In the news we mention our Tweets, STAC and SPAC! 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: STAC 1.0.0 RC1 released A really great discussion on Twitter What is SPAC? Updates: geopandas and gdal FAAAARRRRMS FROM SPAAAAACCCCE Group on Earth Observations (GEO) AfriGEO AmeriGEO GeoGLOWS Inter-American Academy of Geosciences & Applications RCMRD

We discuss issues around a viable EO ecosystem. In the news we mention Etna, dual-band SAR satellites and HLS. 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: Alpha-Insights SAR Etna erupts Simon Proud's tweet Updated hydrological dataset Harmonised Landsat Sentinel-2 data Step-by-step flooding tutorial Terrawatch Space podcast episode Geomob podcast episode The Twitter poll GIM article

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. 

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/ 

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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/

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!

Welcome to the 2020 Scene From Above Summer Special Snapshot. Enjoy! Shownotes for all episodes can be found via http://scenefromabove.org, https://geoger.co.uk/podcast/ or at http://www.acgeospatial.co.uk/podcasts/. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

We have a fascinating discussion about the SpaceNet Challenges. In the news we mention geopandas, methane and Brazil Data Cube. 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: A new release for Geopandas Check out Brazil Data Cube Relaxed spatial resolution over Israel Methane post 1 Methane post 2 SpaceNet Challenges

An absolute stack of news and a discussion about the Awesome EO Code project. In the news we mention RSPSoc 2020, STAC and the Geospatial Commission. 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 goes for multiple looks per day Sean Gorman's talk at FOSS4GUKOnline 2020 Pixel8 Update release: STAC 1.0 beta STAC is now in pygeoapi Update release: sentinelsat 0.14 UK geospatial strategy document RSPSoc Conference Awesome-EarthObservation-Code

Welcome to Scene From Above Snapshots - quickfire discussions on various topics. Enjoy! Shownotes for all episodes can be found via http://scenefromabove.org, https://geoger.co.uk/podcast/ or at http://www.acgeospatial.co.uk/podcasts/. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

Welcome to Scene From Above Snapshots - quickfire discussions on various topics. Enjoy! Shownotes for all episodes can be found via http://scenefromabove.org, https://geoger.co.uk/podcast/ or at http://www.acgeospatial.co.uk/podcasts/. If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

Finally, we discuss drones! We interview Stefano Puliti about this data source In the news we mention FOSS4GUK:Online 2020, a PWC report and LiDAR. 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: PWC on Space and Covid Cloud Masks as a Service 3D in R FOSS4GUK: Online 2020 GEO Online Symposium 2020 Metasensing SAR collection Open Stefano Puliti

We discuss the fact that everyone seems to want a constellation these days. In the news we mention the Copernicus petition, Awesome-EO-Code and Sentinel 5P. 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: Our very own Awesome-EarthObservation-Code Article on TROPOMI TROPOMI GEE App Petition about Copernicus Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities Blog on Picterra processing Satellogic Iceye Capella Space Planet Pleiades Neo WorldView Legion

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 @eoscenefrom Shownotes: 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