A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

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