The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

Satellite imagery has been successfully used to detect and count a number of wildlife species in open landscapes and seascapes where target animals have a strong contrast with their environment. Tom McHugh, CEO, and Founder of The Icon Group has been working on a way for using earth observation to carry a livestock inventory in an agricultural setting. Tom McHugh The Icon Group https://www.icon.ie/ Using very‐high‐resolution satellite imagery and deep learning to detect and count African elephants in heterogeneous landscapes https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rse2.195 Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

"If you are of the mindset that data is power, and if I give away my data then I give away my power. That mindset is about 20 years out of date!" Access to data and how it might have a dramatic impact on local economies, how we make room for unexpected contributors like Dr. John Snow, and mindset to support unrestricted access. Frank Winters https://www.ny.gov/ https://www.nsgic.org/ This episode is sponsored by SafeGraph.com https://www.placekey.io/ is a free, universal standard identifier for any physical place. Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

This week we look at two innovative projects based on GNSS positioning technologies. A podcast episode about SBAS Or look for this episode in the back catalog of MapScaping Podcast episodes SATELLITE-BASED AUGMENTATION SYSTEM - A BASE STATION IN THE SKY Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Super Resolution - what it is, how it works, and the pro's and con's - Along the way, you will learn a little bit about computer vision in the earth observation domain UP42 Free Trial is available here! https://up42.com/pricing A podcast episode about UP42 - check out episode 32 - A Marketplace for Geospatial Data and Workflows https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/a-marketplace-for-geospatial-data-and-workflows Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

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The Open Geospatial Consortium ( OGC ) is connecting people, communities, and technology to solve global challenges and address everyday needs. check out episode 43 - The Evolution of geospatial file formats and data exchange - with Dale Lutz ( Co-Founder of SafeSoftware ) You might also enjoy this episode about data formats :) Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers for free to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. Qiusheng Wu Twitter @giswqs wetlands.io A podcast episode about Big Query GIS https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/google-bigquery-gis-geospatial-in-the-cloud Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

All those things we never talk about in terms of our careers in geospatial, is this the right career path for me? where to next? how do I get to where I want to be? Thierry Gregorius - a coach who specializes in the digital and geospatial sectors shares some insights into what to think about if you have any of these questions. Thierry Gregorius - https://twitter.com/Thierry_G https://truehorizoncoaching.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

An unprecedented scientific effort to scan the entire surface of the Earth before it’s too late. https://www.theeartharchive.com/ Sponsored by Picterra.ch Guide to Earth Observation data and satellite imagery sources http://bit.ly/Picterra-satellite-sources Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Applications of SAR include topography, oceanography, glaciology, geology (for example, terrain discrimination and subsurface imaging), and forestry, including forest height, biomass, deforestation ... the list is long. But before you can do all that you need to know what SAR is and how it works. Guest - Eric Jensen from ICEYE.com Check out Sisters of SAR on Twitter @SistersofSAR Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonoh

Why and how to move from being a GIS Analyst to a Software Engineer. How the two career paths differ and what you need to consider when applying for software engineering positions Dan Mahr on Twitter https://twitter.com/Dmahr Sponsored by Picterra.ch Guide to Earth Observation data and satellite imagery sources http://bit.ly/Picterra-satellite-sources Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Building a 4D Volumetric "Digital Twin" of the Planet using voxels. If you are unfamiliar with voxels, think of them as 3D pixels and in this case, each voxel can exist in an infinite number of time states which gives them a fourth dimension. https://www.voxelmaps.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

This week I am joined by Todd Barr, here are a few of the topics that come up during the conversation. SQL and confidence are must-have skills Mentors, champions, and superheroes Diversity in the geospatial community Todd Barr on Twitter Todd Barr on LinkedIn The Mappyist hour podcast Women In Geospatial Sponsored by Picterra Guide to Earth Observation data and satellite imagery sources Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Previously, with only one constellation and GPS, you could see perhaps two or three satellites and quickly lose the positioning within the city. This is now rare to see in devices that do not support multi constellations. Plus, all the constellations are built to be compatible with each other — all the receivers that can see multiple constellations can compute the position using the different satellites XYO.network Foam.space Satellite Map Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Knowing the depth and shape of the seafloor (bathymetry) is fundamental for understanding ocean circulation, tides, tsunami forecasting, fishing resources, sediment transport, environmental change, underwater geo-hazards, infrastructure construction and maintenance, and much more. Despite many years of effort, less than 20 percent of the world ocean's seafloor has been mapped. Thanks to Commander Samuel Greenaway - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) https://seabed2030.org/ This episode was sponsored by Picterra https://picterra.ch/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn

Sarah Taigel, a professional geographer shares some insight into what a career path might look like, some of the pivots she has made along the way from developing GIS products and services to working as a geographer and interfacing with stakeholders. Sarah Taigel LinkedIn Twitter The SlowWays project https://slowways.uk/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information. Tory Smith Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn

Satellite-based Augmentation System or SBAS can augment standalone Global Navigation Satellite Systems such as GPS in a number of areas including accuracy, integrity, and availability. It works by collecting raw positioning data from Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) in the region, computing error corrections and disseminating these corrections to users from a geostationary communications satellite via an uplink ground station. https://frontiersi.com.au/ Precise Positioning Outreach for Australia and New Zealand https://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/news/latest-news/pinpointing-the-uses-of-precise-positioning Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map on any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data, and markers loaded from any source. "The web is the future of programming and the web is built on HTML, HTML has one first-class programming language JavaScript" https://openlayers.org/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn

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GRASS GIS is one of the few vector topology engines out there, it can handle volumetric raster data ( Voxels), 3d vector data, works in a variety of ecosystems, GRASS functionality is accessible via a range of interfaces ... and completely free! GRASS GIS https://grass.osgeo.org/ Thanks, Markus! https://www.mundialis.de/ https://twitter.com/MarkusNeteler Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

Train your own AI to detect objects and patterns on satellite and aerial imagery. This might just change the way you think about WMS services ;) 500 free credits! https://picterra.ch/mapscaping/ Also mentioned in this episode https://mapproxy.org/ MapProxy is an open-source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client. Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

RasterFrames brings together Earth-observation (EO) data access, cloud computing, and DataFrame-based data science. The recent explosion of EO data from public and private satellite operators presents both a huge opportunity and a huge challenge to the data analysis community. https://spark.apache.org/ https://rasterframes.io/ https://astraea.earth/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform https://www.linkedin.com/in/donboyes/ Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue

Cloud detection is hard and it's an open problem. If too much water vapor gets in the way of earth imaging sensors and we can't see the surface of the earth they lose some of their value. We need to be able to detect clouds in images. Adler Santos https://www.linkedin.com/in/adlersantos from SkyWatch Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

An open and honest conversation about building a business based on open source GIS, the complexities of working with open-source software, what a business model might look like, and why this is a sustainable model going forward. Tim Sutton https://twitter.com/timlinux Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

The promise of data collection is that if we contribute our data, organizations can use that information to make things better for us. The Tension here is that this is not always the case, sometimes we are the product, not the customer. Denise Mckenzie - https://twitter.com/SpatialRed Co-Director of the Benchmark Initiative https://benchmarkinitiative.com/ Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/ Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

A map is a simple communication device and if we can state something simply it means that we really understand it. John Nelson, a cartographic wizard at ESRI offers some really interesting perspectives around communicating with maps. PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Share this podcast with a friend! Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

If you have ever thought about being a freelancer or self-employed consultant in the earth observation sector than this is the podcast episode is for you! Alastair Graham walks us through his experience with starting his own consultancy and shares advice from the lessons he has learned along the way. This is relevant for anyone thinking about starting a business in the geospatial world PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

This episode is a sales pitch for spatial SQL and if you are wondering which programming language is the right one for you in terms of geospatial applications you should listen to this. Thanks to Paul Ramsey from http://cleverelephant.ca PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine and this is how it can be used for Geospatial Thanks to Mark Varley from AddressCloud PlaceKey.io - industry standard for identifying any physical place Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Kurt Menke has been self-employed as a geospatial consultant for years, this is how he got started and how you might get do the same thing. https://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/ Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

What it means to be a geospatial swiss army knife, why spatial thinking is so important and the long-tail of geospatial. Stace Maples Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

DEREK OUYANG is a Lecturer at Stanford University where he and his team are using spatial data to help explain the COVID-19 case growth. https://www.safegraph.com/covid-19-data-consortium http://bay.stanford.edu/ SafeGraph Episode Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Remember to Subscribe :) Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes every week https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

GIS tools are becoming too slow for today's data volumes, in this episode you will learn about how GPU processing might be able to solve this problem. OmniSci https://www.omnisci.com Demos: https://www.omnisci.com/demos Sponsored by Mapsimise Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Isaac Brodsky the product lead for the H3 grid system and the cofounder Unfolded walks us through what it is, what it's for, and when not to use it. Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

What BigQuery GIS is and why Google does not talk about big data anymore Get More Involved Leave A Review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mapscaping-podcast/id1452297085 Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Geospatial business ideas that win, a future where we have a one to one map of the physical and cultural world and some advice for geospatial practitioners from someone that knows the industry! Jonathan Neufeld Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

location and time give context to the internet of things and The Sensor Things Standard is what is going to drive IoT forward. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/

Spatially enabling customer relations, connected data, and using Google as a geospatial platform. Alistair the CEO of Mapsimise explains why he choose Google over Bing, why you might want to spatially enable CRM systems, and why the future of location intelligence is going to be focused around a business case. Alistair on twitter Alistair on LinkedIn Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

What is special about spatiotemporal? What makes spatiotemporal in GIS hard? Which tools can we use? This week I welcome Anita Graser back to the show to talk about spatiotemporal data and what it means for geospatial practitioners. Anita has been on the show before, go back to episode 60 where we discuss geospatially python https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast/geospatial-python Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

The way in which we sub-divide land into geographic regions that can be owned and used in specific ways has far-reaching consequences. Collecting, cleaning, and stitching property boundaries into a seamless fabric is key to a variety of use cases. Jerry Paffendorf, CEO & Co-Founder of Loveland Technologies, who runs LandGrid.com joins me on the podcast today to talk about the far-reaching implications of the land grid. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episode https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Jupyter Notebooks are incredibly powerful tools for interactively developing and presenting GIS data projects. This episode with Julia Wagemann walks you thought the Jupyter project and what Jupyter notebooks are and the advantages of using them. Join the email list and I will send you the show notes from this episodes https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Aerial collection of data from smart meters. In this episode, we discuss why this is better than mesh networks, and other ground collection options and also look at the limitations of drones in terms of data collection platforms. Join the email list for the opportunity to get on a one-to-one call with this week's guest! https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Using ultrasound time of flight measurements to generate millimeter accuracy in indoor environments. Join the email list for the opportunity to get on a one-to-one call with this week's guest! https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Digital twins have been around for a long time, as part of a simulation or analytical view of the real world. They provide simulation and analysis capabilities that can be a fancy 3D hologram that you can touch and feel and move things around or a numeric model that runs on Excel. Can I email you the show notes? just follow the link https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

Anita Graser is a legendary open-source geospatial Python expert. With her extensive knowledge of the subject, she is here to convince us of why Python is a great language for geospatial and how we can all get started learning it. Can I email you the show notes? just follow the link https://mapscaping.com/podcast Happy to connect with you on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielodonohue/

QField and Input are open-source mobile data collection apps that live within the QGIS ecosystem. In this episode we cover everything you need to know to get started. All the resources mentioned in this episode are available at https://mapscaping.com/ I also personally send out these resources each week via email : https://mapscaping.com/podcast

learn why GIS geospatial technology is being underutilized, Why GIS professionals need to rebrand themselves and why communication skills might be the next big thing in the geospatial industry. Resources and show notes are available here

Today we're going to be talking about those early amphibians coming out of the primordial ooze up onto the shore and that would be the CAD files and then being transformed into maybe the mammals that are the GIS files the CAD people will be mad at me for that analogy, but hey, look, the crocodiles are still around so you know, they don't go anywhere. Can I send you all the resources mentioned in this episode? How to Convert CAD to GIS while Preserving Rich Data Structures How to Convert GIS to CAD while Maintaining Data Quality Webinar - May 13: How to Automate CAD & GIS Integration Resources for COVID-19 (This is where we're giving away free FME licenses until at least September 30, 2020)