The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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GRASS GIS is one of the few vector topology engines out there, it can handle volumetric raster data ( Voxels), 3d vector data, works in a variety of ecosystems, GRASS functionality is accessible via a range of interfaces ... and completely free! GRA...

Train your own AI to detect objects and patterns on satellite and aerial imagery. This might just change the way you think about WMS services ;)    500 free credits! https://picterra.ch/mapscaping/   Also mentioned in this episode https://mapproxy.or...

RasterFrames brings together Earth-observation (EO) data access, cloud computing, and DataFrame-based data science. The recent explosion of EO data from public and private satellite operators presents both a huge opportunity and a huge challenge to t...

This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform https://www.linkedin.com/in/donboyes/   Sponsored by https://landgrid.com/   Remember to Subscr...

Cloud detection is hard and it's an open problem. If too much water vapor gets in the way of earth imaging sensors and we can't see the surface of the earth they lose some of their value. We need to be able to detect clouds in images.  Adler Santos h...

An open and honest conversation about building a business based on open source GIS, the complexities of working with open-source software, what a business model might look like, and why this is a sustainable model going forward. Tim Sutton https://tw...

The promise of data collection is that if we contribute our data, organizations can use that information to make things better for us. The Tension here is that this is not always the case, sometimes we are the product, not the customer.  Denise Mcken...

A map is a simple communication device and if we can state something simply it means that we really understand it. John Nelson, a cartographic wizard at ESRI offers some really interesting perspectives around communicating with maps.   PlaceKey.io - ...

If you have ever thought about being a freelancer or self-employed consultant in the earth observation sector than this is the podcast episode is for you! Alastair Graham walks us through his experience with starting his own consultancy and shares ad...