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Minds Behind Maps

Maxime Lenormand

Maps Are Everywhere. These are conversations with those building them.

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01:48:10

Renny Babiarz: Exposing China's Nuclear Testing - MBM#40

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2023/04/01

Renny Babiarz is a former Analyst at the NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) and the VP of Analysis & Operations at AllSource Analysis, a company focused on providing geospatial Intelligence investigations. One of the angles of Renny's work is better understanding China's Nuclear testing using satellite imagery, Open Source Intelligence methods & location data.---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up

01:56:42

Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique...

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2023/03/15

Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang is the co-founder of GeoThings, a Taiwanese company leveraging SMS to share GPS location, images & any useful information for disaster response. He was also on the board of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team; and has focused on applying mapping to supporting humanitarian endeavours mostly in Asia. ---Episode Sponsor: GeoAwesomeness & UP42 EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---Support the podcast on PatreonAbout Slayer:TwitterLinkedInGeoThingsShownotes:Cell Tower data source (used in the

01:27:57

Benjamin Grant: Generating Awe and Using Satellite...

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2023/02/01

Benjamin Grant is the founder of Overview, which started as a project of sharing 1 satellite image per day on Instagram, now to an audience of nearly 1.5 million. It has since turned into books, exhibitions and collaboration with huge brands like Louis Vuitton; all in an effort to showcase Earth using satellite images.---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---About Benjamin:Overview's websiteDaily Overview

01:54:14

Iain Woodhouse: Understanding Radar Satellite Images...

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2023/01/15

Iain Woodhouse is a Professor of Applied Earth Observation at the University of Edinburgh, the author of multiple books & course on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and one of the best people to explain radar remote sensing with decades of experience teaching but also working in the industry.---Episode Sponsor: GeoAwesomeness & UP42 EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---About IainTwitterLinkedInBlogIain's current course on Earth Observation at the University of EdinburghShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon

01:16:24

2022 Recap: Best Moments From Conversations this Year...

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2023/01/01

As 2022 wraps up, I wanted to bring some of the most insightful moments from conversations over the past year: 12 clips from 12 conversations. ---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API.They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:32 Steve Coast: The Next Thing that would Blow Up Openstreetmap 06:39 Barbara Ryan: How Landsat Became Free & Open 17:52 Jeffrey Lewis: Calling Out the Invasion of Ukraine an hour before it

01:32:12

Andrew Blum: Understanding How We Predict the Weather...

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2022/12/15

Andrew Blum is the author of 'The Weather Machine', which provides a history & global overview of how we predict the weather, from the data collection to forecast modelling. His book came out in 2019 so we also discuss the current evolutions & changes since its release.---Episode Sponsor: GeoAwesomeness & UP42 EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---About Andrew:WebsiteTwitter Shownotes:Andrew Blum's booksThe Weather MachineTubesMicheal Lewis, author of the Big ShortBook & Podcast recommendationTomorrow &

01:22:27

Hamed Alemohammad: Open Machine Learning for...

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2022/12/01

Hamed Alemohammad was the previous Executive Director of the Radiant Earth Foundation, a Non-Profit focused on building open machine learning tools & datasets for satellite imagery through projects like the ML Hub & STAC, Spatio Temporal Asset Catalog. --- Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! ---About Hamed - Twitter- LinkedInShownotesLandCoverNetPaperML Hub datasetsRadiant Earth FoundationData DrivenClark

01:26:00

Mo Islam: The Space Industry is Changing, So Is How...

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2022/11/15

Mo Islam is the Co-Founder & CEO of Payload, a Modern Media Company build around a daily newsletter reporting on the Space Industry.--- Episode Sponsor: GeoAwesomeness & UP42 EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---Shownotes: - Subscribe to Payload! - Pathfinder, their podcast- Crowdfunded SpaceX round of investment- Book & Podcast Recommendations - Engines that move markets - The Portal, Episode with Peter Thiel- For All Mankind- Payload's space-themed playlistTimestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:34

01:36:44

Daniel O'Donohue (#2): Building Mapscaping: the...

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2022/11/01

Daniel O'Donohue is the host of the Mapscaping Podcast, the biggest geospatial podcast out there. Over the past 5 years and 180 episode Daniel has talked to hundreds of professionals in the geospatial industry. This is his 2nd time on the podcast, since last time the podcast has grown, he's become a close friend, and recently quit his job---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---About

01:00:20

Joshua Stevens - Visualising NASA's Satellite Imagery...

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2022/10/15

Joshua Stevens is the Lead Visualiser at NASA's Earth Observatory. Him & his team works on making satellite imagery more accessible to the general public by making visualisation of common imagery like Landsat or MODIS.--- Episode Sponsor: Geoawesomeness & UP42EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---About Joshua:TwitterLinkedInWebsiteShownotesFEMANASA Earth ObservatoryTom PattersonBook & Podcast Recommendations:Radio LabThematic Cartography and Geovisualization Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 02:46 - Conversation

02:56:10

Steve Coast: Discussing the Future of Maps & Tech...

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2022/10/01

Steve Coast is the Founder of OpenStreetMap, one of the most successful open source projects; started in 2004 and now used everywhere from Apple's Maps, Mapbox and even Pokemon Go recently. Steve has worked at places like Microsoft, TomTom, Telenav & Digital Globe.We talk about the future of mapping and Tech in general as well as how Steve thinks maps will disappear.Buckle up this is a long one, but well worth it.I highly recommend you watch this one on YouTube---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse

01:38:33

Muthu Kumar & Aleksander Buczkowski: Building an...

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2022/09/15

Muthu Kumar & Aleksander Buczkowski are the Editor-In-Chief & Managing Editor (and creators) of the Geoawesomeness website, which has been running as an independent geospatial media for the past 11 years.More about Muthu & Aleks:Muthu's TwitterMuthu's LinkedInAleks's TwitterAlek's LinkedInAnd of course find more on the Geoawesomeness website--- Episode Sponsor: Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast--- Time stamps00:00 - Introduction 02:30 - Muthu & Aleks describing each other 05:40 - What

01:12:37

Kevin Pomfret: Ethics Isn't Enough & The Case For...

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2022/09/01

Kevin Pomfret is a Space and Spatial Corporate and Transaction Attorney at Williams Mullen and one of the references in terms of Law around spatial data & within the geospatial community more globally. --- Episode Sponsor: Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast--- About Kevin: - LinkedIn- Twitter - More about himShownotes: - Geospatial World's Ambassador of the Year - CCPA: California Consumer Privacy Act - GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation- Locus Charter- Github Copilot- Books &

02:29:55

Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source...

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2022/08/15

Jeffrey Lewis is a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and one of the most influential people in the Open Source Intelligence Community. He is also the host of the "Arms Control Wonk" podcast.--- Episode Sponsor: Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast---About Jeffrey:- Twitter- LinkedInShownotes:Dino BrugioniSeeing the Secrets Growing the LeadersHawkEye 360 GPS InterferenceYandex changing the borders on mapsJeffrey’s Tweet announcing the invasion of

01:19:26

Jean-Martin Bauer: How Data Enables the World Food...

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2022/08/01

Jean Martin Bauer is the Country Director for the World Food Programme in Haiti, where his job is in simple terms to ensure the population does not run out of food. This conversation focuses on the use of data - specifically satellite imagery & maps - and how it helps feed the country.---Episode Sponsor: Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast--- About Jean-Martin: - Twitter- LinkedIn- World Food Programme Shownotes:World Food ProgramHunger MapWFP’s PrismWFP’s Van ProjectFEWS NET: Famine

01:39:03

Indra Den Bakker - Overstory & Tackling Climate by...

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2022/07/15

Indra Den Bakker is the CEO & Co-Founder of Overstory, a company providing vegetation information to electric utility companies about the state of (mostly) trees around power lines by using high resolution satellite imagery. This can lead to prevention of wildfires by finding hazardous vegetation before it falls on a line.--- Episode Sponsor:Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast--- About Indra: - Twitter- LinkedIn- OverstoryShownotes: - Kaggle- Planet- Global Forest Watch- Vandersat’s

01:36:00

Catherine Nakalembe - Food in Stores Isn't Enough:...

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2022/07/01

Dr Catherine Nakalembe is an Associate Research Professor at University of Maryland and the Program Head of NASA Harvest Africa. We talk about some of her work on using satellite imagery for Food Security in her home country of Uganda & how she got into this field in the first place.---Episode Sponsors:Element84Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast---About Catherine:TwitterLinkedInWebsiteShownotes:- NASA Harvest- Catherine’s Bio on University of Maryland’s websiteBooks & Recommendations:- The New

01:35:37

Emily Darling & Kim Fisher - The Challenges of...

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2022/06/15

Emily Darling & Kim Fisher both work at the Wildlife Conservation Society, respectively as the Director of Coral Reef & as Spatial Analyst. They have developed MERMAID, a platform enabling coral reef scientists to aggregate & share their data together. One of the main challenges they tackle being most measurements need to happen in the field as opposed to being able to leverage satellite imagery. ---Episode Sponsors:Radiant Earth Foundation: Apply for the 2022 Radiant MLHub Impact Award for

02:29:42

Arjen Vrielink - Getting to Zero Deforestation with...

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2022/06/01

Arjen Vrielink is the Director & co-founder of Satelligence, dedicated to stopping deforestation by leveraging satellite imagery. They work directly with commodity companies who sell things like cacao or coffee to understand the causes of deforestation and how alternatives can be found.About Arjen:TwitterLinkedInSatelligence---Episode Sponsors:Radiant Earth Foundation: Apply for the 2022 Radiant MLHub Impact Award for agriculture-related applications for Africa - with a $5,000 cash

01:56:33

Barbara Ryan - How Landsat Became Free & Open - MBM #21

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2022/05/15

Barbara Ryan was instrumental in the policy change in 2008 that opened up the Landsat data to being freely & openly available for anyone to access. This resulted in more than 100x uptake in the number of imagery downloaded and fundamentally changed the Earth Observation industry.She is currently the Executive Director of the World Geospatial Industry Council---Episode Sponsors:Radiant Earth Foundation: Apply for the 2022 Radiant MLHub Impact Award for agriculture-related applications for Africa -

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