A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: SpaceX loses several satellites Koalas are an endangered species in parts of Australia GISCI announces June exam date Topic: Isaac Brodsky, fourSquare talks about Unfolded's hex tiles Try it out at studio.unfolded.ai Events: GeoIgnite 22: 1-3 March, virtual Citizen Science Conference, 23-26 May, hybrid

News: Google's Firmina subsea cable will run from Myrtle Beach, SC to South America SpaceX Satellite Internet NOAA GOES T launching on March 1st Landsat 9 operational Nearspace 10cm available Public Labs ISS to be retired in 2030 GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released Endurance22 expedition sets to find's Shackleton's lost ship Topic: A few questions about this round of the Metaverse Events: GISPro call due March 15 Trimble Dimensions+: Nov 7-9, Las Vegas

AVSP Episode 683 January 23, 2022 News: Sentinel 1B issues Tonga eruption 2021 was 6th warmest year 44 superdove satellites launched ArcGIS IPS GISP-R US 5G rollout delayed around airports Topic: We speak to Alastair Bonnett about his 2020 mass market book, Elsewhere, which looks at the role islands play, and touch on his new academic text, Multiracism. Events: GEOINT 2022 Symposium GEO Business 2022

This week Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst, Associate Director of the GeoTech Center about the Geospatial Education Certificate (GeoEdC).

News: CES2022 overview Topic: Frank and Barb sit down with Rebecca Theobald for the second part of our recent series of discussions on redistricting. Events: HxGN Live Global: 20-23 June, Las Vegas Commercial UAV Expo: 6-8 September, Las Vegas

News: NOAA approves sell of 10cm data Geospatial Maturity Assessment report Topic: What is "your Geography"? What is your 'take on', 'approach to', path to "here" etc Events: GIS Pro 2022: 3-6 Oct, Boise

Housekeeping: We will be receiving an AAG Media Achievement Award Topic: This week we talk to Dr. Emily Yeh of the University Colorado Boulder about her time as the President of AAG, the breadth of Geography, and the upcoming AAG Conference in NYC. Events: SatShow 2022: March 22-24, Washington, DC

News: NASA and ESA partner on collaborative tool and open data Unity acquiring WETA tools DJI Mavic 3 Snapchat map continues to grow Lockheed Martin contract to build GPS IIIF satellites 15, 16 and 17 (SV15-17) Trimble creates three scholarships to honor Gladys West Topic: Project sustainability is an ongoing issue in digital (and analog) work as accessibility, technology, and data formats change overtime. This week we discuss some issues and offer some options to begin to address these long term issues.

News: SpaceX Crew-3 mission successfully launches and docks with ISS - CREW-3 MISSION - SpaceX - Updates COP26 Fugro New Generation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles Topic: Interview with Christopher Fowler, Associate Professor of Geography and Demography, Penn State University

News: Hexagon Power Portfolio 2022 QGIS 3.22 released NGA launched the Phase 4a of its MagQuest Challenge Landsat 9 proceeding through commissioning phase Topic: Geography Awareness Week 2021 National Geographic AAG AGS Events: GeoWeek2022, Feb 6-8, Denver, CO

News: GEOINT News: NGA plans annual reassessment of commercial remote sensing NRO issues BAA call for commercial remote sensing technologies Preview of NASA'a VIPER Lunar Rover Vautrin Lud Geography Prize goes to geographer from the National University of Singapore Topic: Geo certificates revisited GeoEdC Certification NatGeo Certification ASPRS Certifications GISP Certification GeoINT Certification RGS Chartered Geographer Events: DH2022: 25-29 July, Tokyo

News: Landsat 9 launched Earth Science Week Geography Awareness Week Topic: Local foods as a representation of Cultural Geography Events: Geography2050 November 15-19, Virtual

News: Amtrak scholarships Landsat 9 launch coming up Topic: This week we ask some questions about the ideas surrounding data response and data preparedness for hazard events

News: Greek Scientists want to name heat waves National Geographic and DeBeers partner on Okavango Eternal project NASA debuts new interactive website for Landsat 9 ahead of launch Next 3 GPS III satellites complete (sv06, 07, 08) Space Force's Main Job - Protecting GPS Topic: A quick discussion on the need for resilience in our technology and systems as highlighted by some recent issues. Events: URISA's LEAP conference: Feb 1-3, Virtual AAG: Feb 25- March 1, in-person & virtual

News: Trimble providing venture funding Haiti Earthquake Census redistricting data available now Topic: Recreating landscapes - snapshots in time and space Events: UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 Oct, Grand Forks, ND

This week we look back on 16 years and celebrate Barb's dissertation defense

News: Geospatial Revolution Part 5 Hexagon acquires Immersal Autodesk Tandem Esri announcements 90 new analytical features across Pro, Enterprise, Online Heavy focus on AI/ML (GeoAI) ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online SURE for ArcGIS ("Reality capture" at scale) ArcGIS GeoBIM coming out in the fall Link features to BIM documents Velocity Real time data/IoT Cloud Data Warehouses Pro Pantone colors for symbology Online like pop-ups Data Engineering (view) Data preparation Can visualize descriptive stats for each field in file Online Blending for symbology Instant Apps

News: A "New" Ocean FAA Recreation test Topic: A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains Events: NCGE: Nov 19-21, Minneapolis

News: China puts a rover on Mars - GAO report on DOD navigation Apple WWDC location announcements Video - Maps update Video - Object capture API (aka photogrammetry) Amazon Location Service now generally available for AWS - AWS startup Accelerator includes geospatial - Lego (official) map

News: Google IO google maps Topic: This week we talk about how we can consider and infer geographic concepts through 2D and 3D representations Events: Earth Archive Virtual Conference: 15-16 June Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021: September 7-9 Las Vegas NV

News: Moving a border Rand McNally releases new Road Atlas Ookla and MapBox partnership Maptitude 2021 released Props to the Mars Helicopter! New SWOT satellite launching in 2022 to measure Earth's water Topic: Deepfakes UW news Article 2018 article GCN article

News: Geospatial Revolution Episode 5 trailer Cesium for Unreal Verizon RTK Google Earth releases upgraded Timelapse with Landsat imagery Carbon Mapper Topic: EarthDay everyday

References for this week's episode: Mapping vaccine distribution (from January) Prospect & Refuge FAA updates Mars helicopter Evergreen

Topic: A conversation spurred by (shiver) a Facebook post. We talk about how we look at tutorials and training and their place in learning GIS (or, really, anything these days). Events corner 2021 Korea Geospatial Information Roadshow: March 22-26, Virtual State of the Map 2021: July 9-11, online. Call open for talks, workshops, (April 4) and panels (June 6)

News: Potential changes to Metropolitan Statistical Areas Congressional push for timing backup for GIS Cardillo appointed as USGIF chair Topic: Anthony Calamito of Enview

News: Perseverance! India launches Amazonia 1 satellite for Brazil Canon built a smallsat for advertising (and research) Atlas of the Human Planet iOS beta gets crowdsourced info QGIS 3,18 released ArcGIS platform GeoWeek 2022 Advisory board Next step in (counter)Ligado stuff Cool Stuff http://radio.garden/ Events corner NCGIS 2021 presentations up on YouTube soon ASPRS 2021: March 29-April 2, virtual GISPro 2021: 3-6 Oct, Baltimore, Abstracts due March 31

News: New NOAA Drought website New Sentinel-based long-term global fire dataset Tilt brush going open Microsoft releases Sustainability City in Minecraft Amnesty International will create maps of facial recognition cameras GISCI Map Contest Topic: News and discussing visual media

AVSP Episode 659 January 24, 2021 News: Saudi Arabia proposes linear city HERE launches Premier 3D Cities Esri Canada's 3D cities model resources Final Fantasy XV director teams up with Japanese airline for virtual tourism Successful launch and deployment for NASA's ELaNa mission CubeSats SpaceX Transporter-1 Topic: Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective Events corner HXGNLive June 15-18 Las Vegas, limited to 1500 ACH2021: July 22-23, Abstracts due by Feb 1 GISPro 2021 Oct 3-6 Baltimore, MDzoom

AVSP Episode 658 January 10, 2021 News: EU announces Destination Earth FAA announces RemoteID plans USGIF academic consortium URISA Coalition of Young Professionals Esri Hub for Imagery and Remote Sensing javascript

News: MapBox moves to 3D and changes license Australian venture pushes toward lunar exploration Digital Coast Act signed into law Topic: Reality capture? Terrestrial lidar Drone photogrammetry Reality capture in our/your pocket Scale shift? Events GeoBusiness 2021 moved to November

News: Here WeGo Deliver Introduction of ArcGIS Field Maps leads to deprecation countdown for existing Esri apps Esri buys Turkish software firm Zibumi for 3D viz Topic: Will Cadell of SparkGeo about Prescient.earth

House Keeping: Map Projections for Babies Kickstarter News: Google tests letting users add Street View images with their phones Google's Tree Canopy Project OpenStreetMap commercialization NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Finalists Sentinel 6 launch Topic: We briefly talk about our favorite geographies...which means many things unto itself. Cool Stuff: https://reearth.io

Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford. You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.

A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week

News: iPhone 12 Pro (and iPad Pro) w/ lidar James Fee Ed Parsons xyht http://3dscannerapp.com and updated this week Partikle Landsat 8 hiccup India launches EOS-1 satellite US Postal Service wants to monetize its mapping data Mapbox Election Mapping Challenge extended until Nov. 30th Topic: TravelTime interview Cool Stuff: ESRI Accessible Basemaps

News: ArcMap (10.8) End of Life outlined Esri releases beta ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity and Unreal Engine Drones in the supply chain Hivemapper studio Microsoft releases building footprints for Australia Topic: This week we riff on the title of a recent AAG seminar to discuss how Geography relates to closely related fields … "encroachment or opportunity" Cool Stuff: Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland's official maps

News: Facebook's Project Aria - mapping your entire life Augmented Reality - Geology's 'killer app'....? Amazon's 'Virtual Tours' Oct 4th - Sputnik anniversary World Space Week Oct. 4-10th - Satellites are the Theme - Cool Stuff: Zuni Map - Counter-mapping place

Last chance to respond to U.S. Census Weather NOAA Turns 50! Fastest run to greek letters for Atlantic Tropical Storms Western US Wildfires La Nina Sentinel 6 launch planned for November Startup Satellite Vu looking to add thermal to commercial remote sensing 2020 StoryMaps Competition Esri signs MoU with UN-Habitat Esri acquires nFrames HP Rolls out new DesignJet printers WV Messes with Harvard Mapping Model

This week we continue our conversation about how visualization can help to convey information and how state and school systems may (or may not) be using visualization tools for varying purposes in our current time of uncertainty. The conversation began in the previous part of the episode.

This week we look at some news around drones and information literacy and we begin the first part of a conversation about geoviz for information sharing. Amazon gets ok to test drone delivery Parrot gets Army contract AI and ML in geospatial Examples from conversation WVDE Schools Re-Entry Map WVDHHR Dashboard

We start with a general chat, but we do mention the White Houses Science Office's question of what should they do to protect GPS, and changing perspectives about Google Maps.

News: WoldView Legion launching in 2021 Garmin hit by Ransomware NSRS modernization delayed Congressional opposition to Ligado continues to grow through letters to FCC MyGalileoDrone competition announced Mars Perseverance launch Cool Stuff: GRASS GIS turns 37 and gets a new look on the web Events Corner: NearMap Navig8 - available Indiana Geographic Information Council - Sept 29-Oct 1, Virtual AAG - April 7-11, Seattle/Virtual

This week we look back about on our 15 year history and, in celebration of Comic Con week, talk about pop culture.

News: UC and other news ArcGIS Pro 2.6 coming "soon" with some key upgrades Voxels Kubernetes Experience builder MapViewer beta Topic: Do we think virtual conference options will remain in the 'post' COVID-19 world Cool Stuff: QGIS US Virtual meeting July 17, 24, 31

News: 15th anniversary for Google Map API UK wants to unlock the power of location China launches last BeiDou satellite Five years for Sentinel 2-A Depth API now available for Google's ARCore Apple's Nearby Interactions Oculus Go discontinued Say goodbye to the Segway PT too Topic: URISA issues statement concerning Code of Ethics in Florida GIS case

Sue & Jesse speak with Brendan Collins and Pablo Fuentes about MakePath, their open source xarray-spatial raster analysis tools, their use of open source for geospatial, and an example application where they modeled pharmacy deserts.

News: China introduces Terry-Cotta SpaceX Dragon successfully launches manned mission and docks with ISS China launches multiple satellites, including Gaofen-9 remote sensing satellite Largest and oldest Mayan monument discovered Topic: Kevin Ring of Cesium talks about the development of CesiumJS and the recent release of Cesium OSM Buildings Cool Stuff: NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom Talking About Race Events Corner: ASPRS 2020 going virtual:June 22-25 ENVI Analytics Symposium: August 25-27 Commercial UAV Expo Americas going virtual: Sept 15-17 Applied Geography Conference: October 18-20 - Abstracts August 15 Geo Business moved to 2021: 19-20 May

News: Push again Ligado decision continues Restrictions on US Satellite operators reduced PCI Geomatics rolls out Geomatica Cloud Data vs politics AAG letter to Florida Topic: Interview with Scott Nowicki, Lead R&D Scientist for Quantum Spatial Cool Stuff: MakePath's OS analysis tools quick guide Events Corner: Virtual INSPIRE conference: 3-12 June FAA UAS Symposium: Ep 1 July 8-9, Ep 2 Aug 18-19 Commercial UAV Expo Europe: 1-2 December State of the Map 2020 posters due June 30

News: FAA announces 8 organizations working on Drone Remote ID FAA UAS Collegiate Training Initiative FAA establishes national spaceport office 25 years of GPS full operations 2nd GPS III satellite begins transmission US military is furious at FCC over 5G plan that could interfere with GPS Trimble's WorksOS beta Esri's free COVID-19 Response Package for nonprofits and free access to Learn ArcGIS for furloughed professionals Topic: Interview with Gabby Getz of Cesium about their work to support the construction industry Cool Stuff: How to do Map Stuff

Esri UC moving online Geo week events and others move to July in Chicago USGIF announces industry awards Galileo Masters 2020 Bentley opens software access Forecasts Wildfire season Hurricane season FCC votes to approve Ligado (xyHT oped)