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 ter...
Dec 02, 2021•50 min
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...
Nov 16, 2021•38 min
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...
Nov 03, 2021•28 min
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...
Oct 22, 2021•54 min
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...
Oct 05, 2021•50 min
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
Sep 15, 2021•47 min
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...
Sep 03, 2021•33 min
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...
Aug 20, 2021•53 min
This week we look back on 16 years and celebrate Barb's dissertation defense
Jul 27, 2021•52 min
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 sta...
Jul 22, 2021•58 min
News: A "New" Ocean FAA Recreation test Topic: A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains Events: NCGE : Nov 19-21, Minneapolis
Jun 27, 2021•49 min
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...
Jun 13, 2021•43 min
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 Conferenc e: 15-16 June Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021 : September 7-9 Las Vegas NV
May 23, 2021•37 min
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...
May 09, 2021•50 min
News: Geospatial Revolution Episode 5 trailer Cesium for Unreal Verizon RTK Google Earth releases upgraded Timelapse with Landsat imagery Carbon Mapper Topic: EarthDay everyday...
Apr 20, 2021•48 min
References for this week's episode: Mapping vaccine distribution (from January) Prospect & Refuge FAA updates Mars helicopter Evergreen...
Apr 04, 2021•51 min
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)...
Mar 26, 2021•53 min
News: Potential changes to Metropolitan Statistical Areas Congressional push for timing backup for GIS Cardillo appointed as USGIF chair Topic: Anthony Calamito of Enview...
Mar 08, 2021•46 min
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...
Mar 01, 2021•39 min
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...
Feb 10, 2021•46 min
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 2...
Jan 25, 2021•48 min
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...
Jan 13, 2021•50 min
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...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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...
Dec 17, 2020•51 min
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...
Dec 01, 2020•55 min
Check out the Kickstarter book project Map Projections for Babies by Dan Ford . You can also find additional information at the MapsForBabies website.
Nov 18, 2020•15 min
A quick chat to kick-off Geography Awareness Week
Nov 16, 2020•22 min
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...
Nov 10, 2020•51 min
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...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 9 min
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...
Oct 07, 2020•43 min
