The Scene From Above podcast
Alastair Graham (@ajggeoger) and Andrew Cutts (@map_andrew) come together to present an informal podcast (@eoscenefrom) looking at the world of modern remote sensing and Earth observation. Fuelled by their passion for all things raster and geospatial, the #scenefromabove podcast aims to be a mix of news, opinion, discussion and interviews.

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Season 9 episode 2: Care about COGs
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/
SEASON 9 EPISODE 1: 3 Years!
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:
- More awesome GEE work from @giswqs
- Slack bought out by Salesforce
SEASON 8 EPISODE 6: GEE with Keiko
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
SEASON 8 Episode 5: Mouth of Morrison
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
SEASON 8 EPISODE 4: DISASTER MONITORING
We talk to David Borges from NASA about using EO for disaster monitoring and response. In the news we mention . 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
SFA Snapshots: 4
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
SEASON 8 EPISODE 3: Conference chat
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
SEASON 8 EPISODE 2: Platform Proliferation
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!):
SFA Snapshots: 3
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
SFA Snapshots: Summer Special
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
SEASON 8 EPISODE 1: SPACENET
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
Season 7 Episode 6: Awesome eo code
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
SFA Snapshots: 2
Welcome to Scene From Above Snapshots – quick-fire 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
SFA Snapshots: 1
Welcome to Scene From Above Snapshots – quick-fire 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
Season 7 Episode 5: Drones
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 LiDAR data for Sao Paolo
- Stefano Puliti
Season 7 Episode 4: Constellation Consternation
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
Season 7 Episode 3: Up north
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
Season 7 Episode 2: SERVIR
We chat with Emil Cherrington from the SERVIR programme. In the news we mention the Amazon rainforest, Syria 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:
- Some sobering imagery of Syria
- SAR video from ICEYE
- Shell Gamechanger
- ESA Startup Competition
- More resources from FastAI
- Unidata Python resources
- GEO, Google Earth and cultural maps of the Amazon
- SERVIR
- BelizeGeo Twitter account
Season 7 Episode 1: Career capers
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
Season 6 Special Episode: MLHub
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Shownotes:
Season 6 Episode 6: Just us
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Shownotes:
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- Google Dataset Search
- Sentinel-5P COGs
- GEE Python Notebooks
- Events from SpaceAgenda
- TRUTHS
- Data products from GEDI
- Launches from Satellogic
- Geoger: What’s in a day rate?
- Geoger: Why go independent?
Season 6 Episode 5: Geospatial 2.0
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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
Season 6 Happy New Year
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Season 6 Episode 4: 2 years!
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Shownotes:
- Monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions using Planet satellite data
- More than 800 pages of openly available advice
- Funding at the ESA ministerial
- GEO and GEE join forces
- Radiant MLHub
Season 6 Episode 3: a STAC of goodness
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Shownotes:
- More launches from Planet
- GEO/JAXA announces open SAR data
- GEE cookbook / tutorial has happened
- More funding for Orbital Insight
- GEE QGIS plugin
- Take a selfie with Spelfie
- Check out the latest STAC details
Season 6 Episode 2: is AI hype?
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Shownotes:
- Sudan launches SRSS-1
- USGS report updates economic value of Landsat archive
- STAC Sprint 5 has happened
- A new release for GeoTrellis
- NASA WorldView
- GDAL tutorial from SpatialThoughts
- RasterVision
- Training data from Big Earth
- Hurricanes and Development Seed
- Fast.AI
Season 6 Episode 1: Ladies of Landsat
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Shownotes:
- 10 hard lessons learnt
- Amazing resources from pyimagesearch
- SAR book
- Wiley virtual issue on climate change
- Urban change in Edinburgh
- Ladies of Landsat
- Women in Geospatial
- WinGRSS
- She Maps
- GeoLatinas
- Women in GIS
- Women in GIS Kenya
- Black Girls Mapp
- Women in GIS in WI
- Indigenous Maps
- 500 Women Scientists
- 500 Queer Scientists
- Unique Scientists
- oStem
- Overview of #GeoMeet hosted by Women in Geospatial and Ladies of Landsat
- Geo for Good 2019 workshop materials
Season 5 Episode 6: Is image interpretation dead?
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Shownotes:
- IceSat 2 bathymetry article
- IceSat 2 tools on Github
- An article on the ethics of mapping
- Alastair’s talk at FOSS4G:UK 2019
- Mapping roads and buildings using Planet Analytics
- Another great GDAL tutorial
- AI using Google Earth Engine
- 18,000,000 buildng footprints released
- Is image interpretation a dying art?
- The report from SenSat
- Airborne hybrid systems
- Image interpretation and remote sensing
Season 5 Bonus
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Season 5 Episode 5: We know what you did
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Shownotes:
- Near collision between ESA and SpaceX satellites
- Lots of info as it unfolded on the near collision
- Landsat updates
- Planet Analytics out of Beta
- Study reports European solar potential
- Landscape monitoring in Living Wales
- Video about ARGUS
- Privacy article 1
- Privacy article 2
- Blog post analysing that image!
- More discussion about that image!
Season 5 Episode 4: Summer Shorts
Something a bit different this time – chats with four people about how they interact with remote sensing data day-to-day.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- Cameron from the Satellite Applications Catapult
- Portal for SEDAS
- Twitter account for Frances
- Amy’s University page
- Tech Up Women
- Ed from RAL Space
Season 5 Episode 3: OpenEO
We have a great chat about OpenEO with Matthias Mohr. In the news we mention machine learning, bridge monitoring and FOSS4G:UK. 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:
- DOD Joint AI Centre makes ML datasets open
- That Solaris blog post!
- An ML resource page from FastAI
- An ML resource page from robmarkcole
- You can also use ESRI tools
- A post on ML from Development Seed
- SAR to monitor bridge deformation
- The Dundee Sat Station crowdfunder
- Get your tickets for FOSS4G:UK
- The OpenEO project
- The OpenEO web editor
- The infamous podcast Strava group
Season 5 Episode 2: Is visualisation important?
We discuss geospatial data visualisation. In the news we mention Python pointers, thermal sensors and Google Earth Engine. 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 visual introduction to numpy
- Training resources from RUS
- Step by step guide to building a GEE app
- A new curated editorial: Spatial Awareness
- Towards a new thermal sensor
- It’s goodbye from Dundee Satellite Station
- And the DSS crowdfunder
- Drought in Chennai
- Monitoring a global water crisi
- Show Your Stripes
Season 5 Episode 1: Xarray and more
We chat to Robin Wilson about free GIS data, Xarray, NetCDF and Python. In the news we mention CBERS4a, data science jobs and AWS Ground Station. 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:
- Report on data science jobs
- News on AWS groundstations
- Report on small sats
- Event: open source cubesat workshop
- Brazil ready to launch CBERS4a
- Open Data for Africa
- Phillipenes announce the DATOS project
- Robin’s free GIS data site
- Check out the blog and software pages (and more) on Robin Wilson’s webpage
- Find out more about xarray
- Find out more about NetCDF
- Robin talks about xarray at PyConUK 2018
Season 4 Episode 6: Open chat with Markus Neteler
Markus Neteler talks to us about OSGeo, GRASS, Actinia and modern EO. In the news we mention Radiant Earth Foundation, Orbital Go and GDAL. 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 cubesat: the SPARC 1
- The release of GDAL 3.0
- GDAL documentation update
- GDAL documentation as a pdf
- Radiant Earth Foundation refocus
- Launch of KTN Geospatial Insights SIG
- European Data Cube facility service
- Measuring air pollution from space
- Orbital Insight announces Orbital Go
- Mundialis
- A paper about Actinia
- Markus on Github
- OSGeo: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- GRASS
- Geo4All
- FOSS4G 2019 conference
Season 4 Episode 5: DIAS Discussions
Part two of our DIAS discussions. We talk about how the DIAS systems might work for users. In the news we mention meetings, DescartesLabs and OpenDroneMap. 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 Sprint 4 announced
- ARD Workshop announced
- Maxar is the new name for DigitalGlobe
- Posters available for the BBC series Earth From Space
- Julia Signell gives a great PyData talk
- It’s 100 million interactions on SentinelHub
- Updates available for GeoPandas
- ECW format is out of patent
- Pangeo
- Updates to OpenDroneMap
- Selling products is wrong for AI startups
- Call for proposals for Open Earth Engine
- Creodias
- Sobloo
- Mundi
- Onda
- Wekeo
Season 4 Episode 4: DIAS Overview
DIAS. What is it? Why is it? We discuss our first impressions in part one of a two part mini-series. In the news we mention SentinelSat, RADARSAT and deep 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:
- India shoots down a satellite
- A new release of SentinelSat software
- Deep learning with SAR
- Tallest tropical tree 1
- Tallest tropical tree 2
- A call for your forestry tools
- Open data release from RADARSAT
- DIAS roundup from EARSC
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Season 4 Episode 3: Space for Smarter Government
We interview Simon Agass about a new data release from the Space for Smarter Government programme. In the news we mention FOSS4G:UK, competitions and ice truckers. 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:
- Data Sci and Satellite Imagery: Andrew’s post of the month
- Development Seed have updated sat-utils
- Water scarcity as a GEE app
- Sentinel-Hub script competition
- Monitoring ice and ice truckers
- A land cover monitoring system for Afghanistan
- FOSS4G:UK call for papers and workshops
- FOSS4G 2019 EO competition
- UK Space for Smarter Government Programme
We need your help to make a special episode. We’d like to have an episode where we hear from you so we encourage you to record 2-3 minutes of audio (or write a couple of paragraphs) about what you think is exciting in remote sensing as you see it.
Please include your name and Twitter handle so we can name check you in the podcast. We’d be really interested to hear about cool things happening in your part of the world but please don’t make it a sales pitch for your own organisation – that won’t make the edit.
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Season 4 Episode 2: Cubesats
Cubesats are all the rage, but what are they and why should we care? In the news we mention GEOS, machine learning and a greener world. 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:
- How accurate is machine learning? Andrew’s post of the month
- Machine learning data 1: BigEarthNet
- Machine learning data 2: Dataset list
- The world is getting greener?
- Paul Ramsey and Martin Davis will be working on GEOS
- Homework: the EARSC DIAS comparison
- Article on smallsats
- Cubesats at CSIRO
- Interview with Peter Beck at RocketLab
- Build your own cubesat
- Planet back in the day
We need your help to make a special episode. We’d like to have an episode where we hear from you so we encourage you to record 2-3 minutes of audio (or write a couple of paragraphs) about what you think is exciting in remote sensing as you see it. Please include your name and Twitter handle so we can name check you in the podcast. We’d be really interested to hear about cool things happening in your part of the world but please don’t make it a sales pitch for your own organisation – that won’t make the edit. We reserve the right to edit what you send us so that it fits the podcast format but we’ll try to keep the message true to what you are trying to say.
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before April 25th 2019. We look forward to finding out what you have to say!
Season 4 Episode 1: Interview with 2ExcelGeo
In this episode we interview Kate Doyle of 2ExcelGeo about aerial data collection and finding work after university. In the news we mention SAR software, UK Space growth and Sensat. 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 UK space sectore is creating jobs
- ESRI ArcGIS Notebooks
- A new SAR-bot called Synthetic Aperture Random
- SAR software #1: HyP3
- SAR software #2: S1 Tiling
- ALL the pixels from the rather impressive Sensat
- GLOBE Adopt a Pixel
- The 2ExcelGeo website
We need your help to make a special episode. We’d like to have an episode where we hear from you so we encourage you to record 2-3 minutes of audio (or write a couple of paragraphs) about what you think is exciting in remote sensing as you see it. Please include your name and Twitter handle so we can name check you in the podcast. We’d be really interested to hear about cool things happening in your part of the world but please don’t make it a sales pitch for your own organisation – that won’t make the edit. We reserve the right to edit what you send us so that it fits the podcast format but we’ll try to keep the message true to what you are trying to say.
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Will you be at the Big Data from Space conference? If so, then @ajggeoger will see you there!
Season 3 Episode 6: Interview with Marlan
In this episode we interview Dr Cai Bird of Marlan Maritime Technologies about a very nifty radar system. In the news we mention WorldView 4, ESA budgets and Python 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:
- Maxar reports the loss of the WorldView-4 satellite
- Online GLCF portal is closed down
- Earth observation gets a good chunk of the ESA Budget
- Satellogic is good to go!
- MODIS VIIRS Client
- Patrick Gray releases Python tutorial notebooks
- Anak Krakatau imaged by ICEYE
- Marlan Maritime Synoptic technology
- A paper on the Marlan method
- Will you be at the Big Data from Space conference?
Podcast music: Crackerjacks & Tin Whistles by Ocean Heights is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Season 3 Episode 5: One year on!
It’s been a whole year of the Scene From Above podcast. Thank you so much for all your support. In this episode we talk about some of the predictions we made in February in S1 E3. In the news we mention Boundless and Planet, Metop-C and DigitalGlobe. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- Planet to acquire Boundless
- Hottest companies in satellite technology
- Active users on the SciHub is 33k
- DigitalGlobe images are stunning
- ICESAT updates
- METOP-C ends an era of meteorological satellites
- Hyperscout creates onboard ARD
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Season 3 Episode 4: The Radiant Earth Foundation
In this episode we talk to Anne Hale Miglarese, CEO of the Radiant Earth Foundation, about the Foundation’s plans and platform as well as the state of modern EO. In the news we mention GEE and S5P, AWS Groundstations, GOES and OpenEO. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- Russian Progress launch filmed from the ISS (apologies, in the podcast Alastair states that it’s a US launch site)
- More GEE and S5P chat
- AWS announce their Groundstation service
- Imagery available from GOES-17
- Happy 1-year anniversary OpenEO
- Images from NovoSAR
- Congratulations to Sean Quegan’s group for winning the NERC Economic Impact Award 2018
- Andrew’s video of the month: Nyall Dawson
- Check out The Radiant Earth Foundation
- Andrew is going to be at GRSG 2018 so go say hello!
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Season 3 Episode 3: Open sauced
In this episode we talk about open source software for EO and geospatial analysis. In the news we mention a whole host of things including whales, Sentinel HR, eo-learn and phi-week. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- Identifying whales from satellite imagery
- Blog post about the Sentinel HR proposal
- Mapping dams from space
- Introducing eo-learn
- $2M contract awarded to Radiant Solutions
- Take the time to check out some of the work done by John Murray
- YouTube playlist for ESA Phi-Week
- The global OSGeo page
- OSGeo:UK the UK chapter
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Season 3 Episode 2: All the satellites!
In this episode we talk about quite a few of the satellites that are used for EO studies. But we still get hung up on the Sentinels and Landsat! In the news we discuss the release of Raster Vision, Reddit and Sentinel Hub’s education pages. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- More releases from Sentinel 5P
- A tweet about a cool Sentinel data finder in a Jupyter notebook
- A Reddit discussion about RS vs GIS
- OMG! The release of Raster Vision
- The Sentinel Hub Education page
- The ESA Concurrent Engineering Workshop
- Industry Connections from BARSC
- That Sentinel 3 viewer again. Because it’s so good!
- The list that started all this sensor/satellite chat.
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Season 3 Episode 1: Web devs and EO scientists
In this episode we talk about the importance of getting data disseminated through the web and whether EO scientists are in demand as web developers use APIs to create cool apps. In the news we discuss Google Earth Engine, financing and ocean robots. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @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 NASAspace debris report
- Competition announced by Open Cosmos and ESA
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Season 2 Episode 6: Are we in the space sector?
In this episode we talk about how the Earth Observation sector identifies itself. In the news we discuss Remote Pixel, Aeolus, icebergs and Google Dataset Search. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- Remote Pixel’s issues with site scraping described in this blog post
- Aeolus – it’s all over Twitter and the mainstream media!
- Larsen C update
- Cloud free mosaic of France
- Google Dataset Search
- A critical blog post from SentinelHubon the state of EO
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Season 2 Episode 5: How important is GDAL?
In this episode we discuss GDAL and the pivotal role it has to play in the world of Earth observation and geospatial. In the news we talk about hydrology, how the public view space, sector growth and The Wedding Present! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom
Shownotes:
- Space priorities: 3% of people think going to the moon is important, but 43% felt climate change was most important
- Sector growth article
- How many small sats? 7000. Really?
- Monitoring ground deformation in Southern California
- The first Satellite Data Interoperability Workshop is go!
- The rather good, The Wedding Present
- GDAL homepage
- GDAL cheatsheet on GitHub
- Andrew’s GDAL tips
- gdalinfo image.tif > stats.txt
- gdal_translate -b 1 input.tif output.tif
- pktools – extended GDAL!
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Season 2 Episode 4: A chat with CloudEO
In this episode we interview Maria from CloudEO about what they are looking to do with their data search and provision platform. In the news we talk about the EASRSC awards, Sentinel-5P and fire monitoring. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- Sentinel-5P data are now available
- EO-Compass releases an awesome Sentinel metadata site
- Copernicus EMS monitors fires in the UK and elsewhere
- Sinergise and Dust Frequency Maps are winners at the EARSC awards
- If the Moon were only one pixel!
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Season 2 Episode 3: U got skillz?
In this episode we record ourselves together in the same room for the first time, and discuss what skills are useful to have if you want to get a job dealing with EO imagery, and whether those skills have changed over the decades. In the news we talk about the Geospatial Commission and MasterMap, Sentinel-5P and space harpoons! Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- As we were both in the same building at the same time, we grabbed a seat in the Satellite Applications Catapult which is part of the Harwell Space Cluster
- Geospatial Commission moves to open up parts of OS MasterMap
- Sentinel-5P maps of Formaldehyde
- Airbus are in the news! TerraSAR-X tasking and links with Planet.
- PakTES-1A launch announced
- SSTL launches RemoveDebris space harpoon!
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Season 2 Episode 3: Bonus
Recording ourselves together in the same room doesn’t mean things go smoothly.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
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Season 2 Episode 2: What’s in your bag?
In this episode we talk about what software might be good for EO image processing and whether you should know a bit of coding and have a decent laptop. In the news we talk about ICEYE, LiDAR data, Open-EO and geoint trends. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- ICEYE raises a huge amount of cash to do cool things with radar!
- Six top GeoInt trends
- Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature Climatology
- Open LiDAR data for England from the Environment Agency
- Open EO User requirements survey
- 13 Open Source Remote Sensing Software Packages (2018)
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Season 2 Episode 1: Geo-what-inary?
We are back for a second season, and in this episode we ramble on about geostationary EO satellites. In the news we talk about charging for Landsat imagery, the Jupyter project, cloud free S2 imagery and ecology. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- What happens if the US starts charging for Landsat?
- Sentinel 5P tracking ships dirty emissions.
- Pettorelli et al. article and RS for ecology article.
- Cloudless S2 map.
- Jupyter Project gets awarded for their efforts and impact.
- Meteosat images.
- And more Meteosat images.
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Season 2 Episode 0: Promo
Season 2 is on its way!
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- You can get the podcast in many different ways. Check out how here.
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Season 1 Episode 6: Quickfire round
In this episode we ask each other a few EO based questions, that turn out not to be as quick-fire as we initially thought they would be. In the news we talk about space junk, a Copernicus workshop, a UK spaceport and Earth on AWS. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- Space fishing! Reducing space junk using a harpoon and/or a net. And another article about reducing space junk.
- The double-decker bus converter.
- Amazing oblique imagery from Planet. Also, an oldie-but-goodie launch from the ISS.
- Cryosat used to monitor the Antarctic.
- Announcing the Inaugural Earth on AWS Fellowships and Internships Program.
- Copernicus for Water Management workshop.
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Season 1 Episode 5: Analytical about Analytics
In this episode we talk about using analytics and analytical methods to extract information from imagery, rather than just looking at nice images. In the news we talk about Remote Pixel, conferences, and a new R software package. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- Remote Pixel NDVI series
- New penguin habitats discovered from space
- Letter in the Guardian about space junk in response to this article
- The SnapPlanet.io mobile app
- UK National Earth Observation Conference
- R-stats SITS package for timeseries analysis
- Enter the Landsense Challenge
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Season 1 Episode 4: Timeseries
In this episode we talk about how the temporal nature of remotely sensed data enriches the information in the imagery. In the news we talk about JupyterLab, another film review (!) and of course, SpaceX. Amongst other things.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- JupyterLab is ready for users
- Landsat 8 is five years old
- Mission Control: the unsung heroes of Apollo
- SpaceX – double sonic booms
- Sarbian OS
- Himawari 8 images of Mount Sinabung eruption
- Google Earth Engine Timelapse
- Timeseries vs GIS vs Remote Sensing on Google Trends
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Season 1 Episode 3: Predictions?
In this episode we talk about a few things that we think will be big in 2018. We also chat about AWS, drought, Voyager and more.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- Sentinel 1 on AWS
- The Farthest
- DigitalGlobe ML for data storage
- RocketLab and the Humanity Star (and space graffiti)
- Planet Explorer Beta
- Cape Town Day Zero
- 20 years of Hype Cycles
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Season 1 Episode 2: What is Open Data?
In this episode we discuss open data – what it is, how useful it is and whether there are levels of openness. We also chat about satellite launches, gigapixel images, conferences and more.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- Satellite launches
- Hyperspectral cubesats
- Landsat Science Team
- Europe Gigapixel mosaic image
- SCP 6 tool
- Sentinel-2 statistics
- FOSS4G-UK conference
- FOSS4G global conference
- Rasters Revealed 2018 conference
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Season 1 Episode 1: Is Google Earth still the killer app?
In this episode we talk about whether or not Google Earth is still the killer app that non-specialists go to for their Earth observation fix, and what the next app might need to look like to take over the mantle from GE. We also chat about wildfires, openEO, the ISS and more.
If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove
Shownotes:
- 2030 Vision For A World Empowered by Satellites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbrjkFWWtX4
- Wildfires: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91427
- Sentinel-3 portal: goo.gl/kigAW4
- openEO: http://openeo.org/
- GIS is Google Earth, but better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gc4r7gMz4k
- Wikimapia: http://wikimapia.org/
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Season 1 Episode 0: Demo
The demo podcast to understand what we sound like and to gather some feedback. We know Alastair’s microphone quality needs to be improved – we’ll work on that over the course of Season 1.
Shownotes:
- The GEE powered app: https://remap-app.org/remap
- Sentinel 5P image of Bali: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/12/Sentinel-5P_captures_Bali_volcanic_eruption
- Morocco satellite: http://northafricapost.com/20567-mohammed-vi-satellite-launched-orbit.html
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