The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
A podcast for geospatial people. Weekly episodes that focus on the tech, trends, tools, and stories from the geospatial world. Interviews with the people that are shaping the future of GIS, geospatial as well as practitioners working in the geo industry. This is a podcast for the GIS and geospatial community subscribe or visit https://mapscaping.com to learn more
Episodes
This is the story of Priscilla Cole, and what she did when she discovered that her ambitions were bigger than the tools she was using!
Connect with Priscilla here!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscilla-cole-5892549/
Recommended Listening
The Way You Talk About Your Skills Is Costing You Money
Geospatial Consulting As A Business And Career
Getting Where You Want To Go In Your Career
In this episode, I'm joined by Konstantine Klemmer, a researcher at Microsoft, to dive deep into the fascinating world of GeoAI. Konstantine introduces us to Satclip, a cutting-edge model that encodes geographic locations based on satellite images.
We discuss how Satclip works, the data it uses, and its potential applications, particularly in low-resource settings and predictive modeling. Whether you're into AI, geography, or just ...
In this episode, I welcome Jason Gilman, a Principal Software Engineer at Element 84, to explore the exciting world of natural language geocoding.
Key Topics Discussed:
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Introduction to Natural Language Geocoding:
- Jason explains the concept of natural language geocoding and its significance in converting textual descriptions of locations into precise geographical data. This involves using large language models to interpret ...
This podcast episode is all about semantic search and using embeddings to analyse text and social media data.
Dominik Weckmüller, a researcher at the Technical University of Dresden, talks about his PhD research, where he looks at how to analyze text with geographic references.
He explains hyperloglog and embeddings, showing how these methods capture the meaning of text and can be used to search big databases without knowing the t...
In this episode, we welcome back Lauren Guy, CEO and founder of ASTERRA, a groundbreaking company using L band and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for commercial purposes. Lauren shares his journey as a geophysicist and discusses the innovative applications of L band in detecting water leakages, soil moisture, and even minerals from space. Dive deep into the technical, commercial, and environmental aspects of SAR technology and lear...
Cloud-native geospatial, range requests, chucks, COGs and COPCs ... [ insert confusing acronym here ]
Sometimes It feels like we need to learn a whole new vocabulary and if you have been doing #geo for a while you might be wondering how much of this is actually going to impact me. What bits of this are the ones that I need to know about?
I don’t think that anyone is going to be talking about cloud native in 10 years, in the same ...
Mappedin started as a school project and evolved into a leading indoor mapping company, working with malls, airports, hospitals, and Fortune 500 companies.
You guessed, today's podcast is all about indoor mapping, why it's hard, what are the use cases driving it, what the state of the art looks like today and what we can expect in the future.
Key points discussed include:
1. **The Challenge of Indoor Mapping**: Unlike outdoor m...
Hugo Powell, from immap.org shares his expert insights on how GIS technologies are leveraged to analyze data, visualize scenarios, and facilitate rapid decision-making during emergencies.
Here are the key tools mentioned:
1. **Kobo Toolbox**: An open-source tool used for data collection in humanitarian contexts. Kobo Toolbox allows for both quantitative and qualitative data collection and is operational offline, which is crucial in...
AI Autocomplete for QGIS
Brendan Ashworth the CTO and co-founder of https://buntinglabs.com/ focuses on integrating AI with QGIS, and today on the podcast we are talking about Autocomplete for vectorization.
Along the way Brendan will share with us why Bunting Labs chose to build this on top of QGIS, the Challenges in Map Digitization, what the development process was like and how this is different from tools like Segment Anything ...
GNSS receivers - why precise positioning will not be coming to your phone any time soon
Igor is the CEO and cofounder of Emlid.com a company that started out making high-precision GNSS receivers in his kitchen and crowd-funded the first batch on Kickstarter.
But that was over ten years ago so today on the podcast Igor is going to tell us about the innovations that made this possible, give a great explanation of RTK and PPP and...
Refactoring the Way you Talk About your geospatial skills: It is Costing you Money
Some of the key topics in this episode
1.Our Geospatial Skills and Marketability: There's a realization that while our traditional geospatial skills are valuable, they might not always be marketed effectively to match the broader IT and data analysis job markets. We discuss the benefit of framing our skills in terms that are more widely recognized o...
Modern geospatial - not the bleeding edge of geospatial but modern geospatial - what is it?
Well my guest Will Cadell, the CEO of SparkGeo describes modern geospatial as the intersection of the cloud, smart space, open source data/standards, AI and smart devices - that's modern geospatial
And as you will hear during the discussion it's important to understand the difference between modernisation and innovation when we think about ...
The main topics discussed during this episode include:
- Basics of LIDAR data and its applications.
- Differences between LIDAR and photogrammetry.
- Processing chain of LIDAR data.
- Challenges in classifying point clouds.
- Applications of LIDAR technology in vegetation mapping, terrain modelling, and infrastructure inspection.
- The future of LIDAR technology includes the potential for more affordable and widespread use.
- Importance of a...
Alex Leith is a Digital Earth Architect and in this episode, you will learn what Infrastructure as code is - hint it is the opposite of the "clicky-clicky" and so much more!
Connect with Alex here https://auspatious.com/
Recommended Listening
Cloud-Optimized Point CLounds
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-optimized-point-clouds/
Cloud Native Geospatial
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/cloud-native-geospatial/
Planet Scale...
GeeMap is an open-source Python library that provides tools for interactive mapping with Google Earth Engine (GEE), which is a platform for earth science data and analysis ... and today you are going to hear from the creator of GeeMap!
Connect with Qiusheng Wu here: https://wetlands.io/
This episode is sponsored by Planet
learn more at https://www.planet.com/gis/
Recommended Listening
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
GPS reimagined?
Why do we need to reimagine GPS? ... Is it broken?
Recommended Podcast Episodes
How Google Calculates Your Location
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/how-google-calculates-your-location/
From GNSS To VPS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/from-gnss-to-vps/
Navigating The Past Present and Future of GNSS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/navigating-the-past-present-and-future-of-gnss/
SatelliteBased Augmentation Sys...
Nyall Dawson is a QGIS developer, cartographer, and owner and founder of North Road, a company specializing in open-source geospatial software.
His journey into geospatial began with personal interests in mapping and cartography, which later evolved into a business called North Road.
But that's not why I wanted to make this episode for you, I wanted to share this story with you because it could be your story too.
You could decide ...
This episode is all about making beautiful maps ... I am not a cartographer but my guest Mamata Akella is a professional cartographer at Felt!
So today on the podcast we are talking about Essential Elements of Map Design:
Which of course starts with questions like - who is it for, what is it for and how do we get it to them?
And then moves on to Visual Hierarchy, Zoom-Based Styling, Color Palettes, and Interpretation
Planet manufactures and manages the world’s largest constellation of earth observation satellites!
Imaging “Just about everywhere on earth just about every day – Making change visible, accessible, and actionable”
… and the hope of this episode is to help you understand how they do that – along the way
- you will hear about their two constellations and how they work together
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This episode is a story about wide-angle imaging for fire mapping and maritime search but it's also a story about changing the culture and getting people to trust a new way of doing things.
My guest today is Alison Harrod - mission success manager at a start-up called Overwatch imaging
Whenever I work with a company like Overwatch Imaging it is hard to know which story to tell, we could just as easily have made an episode abou...
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