Minds Behind Maps
68 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMaps Are Everywhere.
These are conversations with those building them.
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Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt - MBM#65
April 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBSponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API Geomob Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books. GeoLayers geolayers.app Johnny Harris Markus’s cameo in a recent video Search Party Felt Procreate dreams Jason Boone’s episode Podcast recommendation: Syntax.fm Timestamps (00:00) - Intro (02:26) - Sponsor: OpenCage (03:52) - Markus Describes himself (04:29) - GEOlayers in simple terms ...
Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet, Building the Simplest Mapping Library & Life in Ukraine
April 01, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBVolodymyr Agafonkin is the creator of Leaflet, an open-source JS mapping library started in 2008 that is used pretty much everywhere on the Internet today. We end up nerding out on what makes building simple open source software & rendering maps online tricky but also so endlessly interesting. Volodymyr lives in Ukraine, a country shaken by a war for the past few years, which we also talk about. Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap Try out Kermap's monthly mosaic viewer Nimbo for yourself Support the...
Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63
March 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBQiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor in Geography, an active open source contributor behind projects like geemap, leafmap or segment-geospatial also sharing tutorials on his popular Youtube channel. Qiusheng has a desire to teach, share and lower the barrier to entry to geospatial, all things I'm always curious to talk more about Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API Geomob About Qiusheng Twitter LinkedIn Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affil...
Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level - MBM#62
March 01, 2024 13:15 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBRyan Abernathey is a Climate Scientist, open-source software developer and the CEO & co-founder of Earthmover, a company trying to simplify how scientific computing is done. Ryan also co-founded the Pangeo project in 2016, one of the major efforts to build better tools for scientific computing today. Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap Try out Kermap's monthly mosaic viewer Nimbo for yourself About Ryan Twitter LinkedIn Github Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a ...
Gilberto Camara - Brazil's Fight Against Deforestation; Politics & Open Data - MBM#61
February 15, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBGilberto Camara was the director of INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research from 2005 to 2012, working there 35y in total and leading the use of satellite imagery to fight deforestation in Brazil, leading to what Nature declared “One of the biggest environmental wins of the 2000s” Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API Geomob About Gilberto Twitter Blog Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission i...
Thomas Ager: The Essentials of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) - MBM#60
February 01, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBThomas Ager worked for 30y at the National Geospatial Agency on Radar satellite images and recently released ‘The Essentials of SAR’ a book breaking down Synthetic Aperture Radar for, as he puts it, “non electrical engineers” Sponsor: Planet Find more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency images About Tom LinkedIn His book: The Essentials of SAR (Affiliate Link) Also available in Mandarin Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small co...
Brian McClendon: The Story of Google Maps, Pokemon Go & Keyhole - MBM#59
January 15, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBBrian McClendon was one of the earliest investors & later VP of Engineering at Keyhole, which got acquired by Google in 2004. Brian become VP of Engineering and led Google Geo, overlooking the development of Google Earth & Google Maps. He also worked at Uber & is now at Niantic, which you might know for thri most popular app: Pokemon Go Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API Geomob About Brian LinkedIn Niantic Shownotes Never Lost Again by Bill Kilday...
Ariel Seidman - Taking on Google Maps, Crowdsourced mapping & Crypto - MBM#58
January 01, 2024 15:45 - 1 hour - 91 MBAriel Seidman is one of the co-founders of Hivemapper, a company building a map through selling dashcams & paying contributing drivers with the aim of competing with Google Maps. Ariel has a long history of mapping, working on Map & Search at Yahoo in the mid 2000s. Sponsor: Planet Find more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency images About Ariel Twitter LinkedIn Hivemapper Shownotes Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Affiliate Link) Econ 102 with Noah Smith: https:/...
Best of 2023: 12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite Images & Tech - MBM#57
December 15, 2023 17:20 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBIt's the end of the year, so time for Christmas sweaters & looking back on the year through 12 conversations ranging from advice for people wanting to build things, discussing academia & companies, thinking about the roles of maps in the world and many others. Support the podcast & my work on Patreon Listen to the full episodes mentioned today: Harold Goddijn Sean Gorman Can Duruk James Killick Mila Luleva Iain Woodhouse Jed Sundwall Javier de la Torre Este Geraghty Renny Babiart...
Jason Boone: Animating Maps for a Living, Working with Johnny Harris & Joining a Tech Startup - #MBM56
December 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBJason Boone runs the Boone Loves Videos YouTube Channel with nearly 100k subscribers, teaching people visual effects & map animations. This led him to work with some of the biggest YouTubers out there, including Johnny Harris. We talked about running an online business teaching people map animations, using maps to tell stories and Jason's recent dive into tech startups. Sponsor: Planet Find more about accessing Planet's high resolution & high frequency images About Twitter LinkedIn Jas...
Javier de la Torre: From Biologist to Entrepreneur, How Maps Help Preserve Biodiversity & Hosting Conferences - MBM#55
November 15, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBJavier de la Torre started a Biologist Researcher, went on to start Vizzuality and later Carto where he is now. Javier works at the intersection mapping, software based companies & geospatial. He is also one of the founding members of the Tierra Pura Foundation focused on mitigation and adaptions tactics to climate change. Sponsor: Felt Check out their QGIS Plugin to easily share your QGIS projects About Javier LinkedIn Twitter Carto Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliat...
Hongwei Liu: What It Takes to Actually Map the Indoors, Hard Work & Finding the Right Things to Work on - MBM#54
November 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBHongwei Liu is the CEO & Co-Founder of MappedIn, a company focused on indoor mapping. I know a lot about what it takes to map the outdoor world, but little about what’s required to map indoors. That’s what this conversation is about. Episode Sponsor: SkyFi Get high resolution imagery easily, with prices up front on SkyFi.com About Hongwei LinkedIn Twitter Shownotes Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books. MappedIn Make...
Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone, Finding What (& with whom) to work on - MBM#53
October 15, 2023 10:40 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBSean Gorman is currently on his 4th start-up, Zephr, working on improving smartphone location. Previously he worked on 3D mapping (acquired by Snap), mapping fibre optics infrastructure (and caught the NAS's attention as a grad student). I was recently in Colorado and got to spend a few days with Sean, at the end of which we recorded a conversation about building great teams, finding what to work on and building businesses around maps Sponsor: Felt Try out collaborative online mapping with ...
Harold Goddijn: The Full Story of TomTom, Selling Millions of Devices, the impact of the iPhone & mapping today - MBM#52
October 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBHarold Goddijn is one of the co-founders & the CEO of TomTom. TomTom has pivoted many times, from it's beginnings making PDA software in the early 90s, stumbling onto map applications, building its own hardware to millions of devices sold in a day, to its current form today. TomTom is a fascinating company in the mapping industry and I'm excited to share a conversation with the person leading it all, Harold Goddijn. Episode Sponsor: SkyFi Get high resolution imagery easily, with prices up f...
James Killick: Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - MBM#51
September 15, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBJames Killick worked at Apple from 2013 to 2022 on the Maps team and has worked in mapping for the past 40 years. I've been wondering why Apple has gotten so much into Maps; Google makes sense to me, they're just the same ad business as search, but on a map. So, why -and how- did Apple get into Map? Sponsor: Felt Try out collaborative online mapping with Felt Check out their Youtube Channel for walkthroughs of their latest features About James LinkedIn Twitter Shownotes Note: Links to ...
Aravind Ravichandran: From Images to Actions: An Introduction to Earth Observation - MBM#50
September 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBAravind Ravichandran is the founder of TerraWatch Space, where he does consulting and strategy with the goal, in his words, to demystify Earth Observation. This is an introduction to the 5 layers Aravind identifies as making the Earth Observation industry. Aravind writes one of the most popular newsletter gathering the latest news and featuring deep dives analysing the industry. We also hosts a podcast -albeit on pause at the moment- so was the perfect person to discuss Earth Observation at ...
Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact Observatory, Descartes Labs & National Geographic - MBM#49
August 15, 2023 14:46 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBSteve Brumby is the founder & CTO of Impact Observatory, a company working on providing rapid land cover maps anywhere on Earth. He puts it as wanting to provide "the maps the US takes for granted, all around the globe". Steve was also a co-founder & the CTO at Descartes Labs and worked at National Geographic. --- Episode Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! --- About Steve Brumby Twitter LinkedIn Sh...
Robert Cheetham & Dan Pilone: Building Businesses that Last, Bootstrapping & Acquisitions - MBM#48
August 01, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBRobert Cheetham is the founder of Azavea, founded all the way back in 2000 and Dan Pilone one of the founders of Element84, started in 2010. Recently Element84 acquired Azavea to expand from large scale computing to also analysis. I wanted to talk to Robert & Dan about why they went for an acquisition and why now, if both companies had both been around for so long. Both companies also have not taken outside investment, which made this acquisition all the more interesting Support the podcast...
Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases & Health - MBM#47
July 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 77 MBDr Este Geraghty is the Chief Medical Officer at Esri, a former Deputy Director of the California Department of Public Health and a certified public health professional; so the perfect person to talk about how we map diseases, health and all the support around medical care. Este also wrote a book about the learning of mapping applied to covid, which we discuss. Support the podcast on Patreon --- Episode Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a ge...
Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative - MBM#46
July 01, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBCan Duruk is the co-founder & CTO at Felt, a company working on bringing maps to the browser. In Can's own words they want to make maps fun and collaborative. Think of Felt as the Figma or Notion of Maps. Episode Sponsor: satellite-image-deep-learning newsletter To keep up with all things satellite images & deep learning, follow Robin Cole's newsletter here About Can Twitter LinkedIn Shownotes (Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of ...
Zhuang-Fang Nana Yi: Satellite Imagery to Solve Local Problems - MBM#45
June 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBZhuang-Fang Nana Yi is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Regrow, though today's conversation is about her story from going to school not speaking the language, to mapping rubber tree plantations and ultimately using global satellite imagery methods to solve local problems. Support the podcast on Patreon --- Episode Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! --- About Zhuang-Fang: LinkedIn Twitter Show...
Jed Sundwall: Making Open Data Actually Accessible (in a world with ChatGPT) - MBM#44
June 01, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBJed Sundwall is the Executive Director of Radiant Earth, and formerly worked on creating AWS's Open Data Registry, starting by putting Landsat images and then other Earth Observation datasets on the cloud. Radiant Earth is an NGO focused on making geospatial data more accessible, specifically for Machine Learning applications. Support the Podcast on Patreon to prevent ChatGPT from ruining traffic to these conversations, taking over the world and crushing all of humanity; or just because you...
Marc Prioleau: The Overture Maps Foundation: Do We Need a New Open Mapping Project? - MBM#43
May 16, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour - 90 MBMarc Prioleau is the newly appointed Executive Director to the Overture Maps Foundation (at the date this episode comes out). Overture was originally announced in December 2022, founded by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, with the goal of providing a open map data. That sounds a lot like what OpenStreetMap set out to achieve... so why start something new? Marc has some answers to that question, and it isn't his first time thinking about the future of mapping Support the podcast on Patreo...
Grega Milčinski: The Story of Sentinel Hub, EO Browser & Sinergise: Making Free & Open Satellite Imagery Actually Accessible - MBM#42
May 01, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBGrega Milčinski is the founder of Sinergise, the company behind Sentinel Hub & EO Browser which recently got acquired by Planet. While the deal of the acquisition isn't closed just yet at the time of publishing, we discuss the story behind Sinergise, how it's more of an engineering than remote sensing company and why they decided to get acquired. Support the podcast on Patreon --- Episode Sponsor: Steven Feldman Geomob podcast Jérémy Garniaux - Mapstodon Mappery.org My favourite Stev...
Mila Luleva: Why Would a Bank Care About Satellite Images? (Spoiler: It's Carbon Credits) - MBM#41
April 15, 2023 14:50 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBMila Luleva is the Head of Remote Sensing at Rabobank, the 2nd biggest bank in the Netherlands. Specifically she works on the Acorn Initiative which aims at supporting small holder farmers transition to more sustainable agriculture practices by selling carbon credits for the biomass these farmers produce. Carbon credits are a messy, complicated and often times controversial topic, all of which I wanted to ask Mila about. --- Episode Sponsor: Geoawesomeness Read their 2023 Global Top 100 Ge...
Renny Babiarz: Exposing China's Nuclear Testing - MBM#40
April 01, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour - 99 MBRenny 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: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you ...
Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique Infrastructure to Support Disaster Response - MBM#39
March 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBKuo-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 Hub Geoawesomeness UP42 --- Support the podcast on Patreon About Slayer: Twitter LinkedIn GeoThings Shownotes: Cell To...
Benjamin Grant: Generating Awe and Using Satellite Images to Inspire Millions - MBM#38
February 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBBenjamin 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: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! --- About Benjamin: Overview's webs...
Iain Woodhouse: Understanding Radar Satellite Images - MBM#37
January 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBIain 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 Hub Geoawesomeness UP42 --- About Iain Twitter LinkedIn Blog Iain's current course on Earth Observation at the University of Edinburgh Shownotes Note: ...
2022 Recap: Best Moments From Conversations this Year - MBM#36
January 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBAs 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: OpenCage Use 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 ...
Andrew Blum: Understanding How We Predict the Weather - MBM#35
December 15, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBAndrew 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 Hub Geoawesomeness UP42 --- About Andrew: Website Twitter Shownotes: Andrew Blum's books The Weather Machine Tubes Micheal Lewis, author of the Big Short Book & Pod...
Hamed Alemohammad: Open Machine Learning for Satellite Imagery - MBM#34
December 01, 2022 16:20 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBHamed 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: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! --- About Hamed - Twitter - LinkedIn Shownotes LandCoverNet Paper ML Hub datasets Radiant Earth...
Mo Islam: The Space Industry is Changing, So Is How It's Reported On - MBM #33
November 15, 2022 10:50 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBMo 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 Hub Geoawesomeness UP42 --- 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 playlist Timestamps: 00:...
Daniel O'Donohue (#2): Building Mapscaping: the Biggest Geospatial Podcast, Finding What to Do in Life & Mentorship - MBM #32
November 01, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBDaniel 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: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to! --- About Daniel...
Joshua Stevens - Visualising NASA's Satellite Imagery - MBM #31
October 15, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBJoshua 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 & UP42 EO Hub Geoawesomeness UP42 --- About Joshua: Twitter LinkedIn Website Shownotes FEMA NASA Earth Observatory Tom Patterson Book & Podcast Recommendations: Radio Lab Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization Timestamps ...
Steve Coast: Discussing the Future of Maps & Tech with the Founder of OpenStreetMap (& why he thinks maps will disappear) - MBM #30
October 01, 2022 14:00 - 2 hours - 80.7 MBSteve 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: Op...
Muthu Kumar & Aleksander Buczkowski: Building an Independent Media over the long term: Geoawesomeness - MBM #29
September 15, 2022 16:50 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBMuthu 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 Twitter Muthu's LinkedIn Aleks's Twitter Alek's LinkedIn And of course find more on the Geoawesomeness website --- Episode Sponsor: Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast --- Time stamps 00:00 - Introduction 02:30 - Muthu & Aleks de...
Kevin Pomfret: Ethics Isn't Enough & The Case For Geospatial Law - MBM #28
September 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBKevin 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: Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast --- About Kevin: - LinkedIn - Twitter - More about him Shownotes: - Geospatial World's Ambassador of the Year - CCPA: California Consumer Privacy Act - GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation - Locus Charter - Gi...
Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source Intelligence Researcher: Keeping Goverments Accountable - MBM #27
August 15, 2022 09:00 - 2 hours - 137 MBJeffrey 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: Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast --- About Jeffrey: - Twitter - LinkedIn Shownotes: Dino Brugioni Seeing the Secrets Growing the Leaders HawkEye 360 GPS Interference Yandex changing the borders on maps Jeffrey’s Twee...
Jean-Martin Bauer: How Data Enables the World Food Program to Effectively Feed a Country - MBM #26
August 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBJean 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: Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast --- About Jean-Martin: - Twitter - LinkedIn - World Food Programme Shownotes: World Food Program Hunger Map WFP’s Prism WFP’s ...
Indra Den Bakker - Overstory & Tackling Climate by Monitoring Vegetation with Satellite Data - MBM #25
July 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBIndra 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: Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast --- About Indra: - Twitter - LinkedIn - Overstory Shownotes: - Kaggle - Planet - Global Forest...
Catherine Nakalembe - Food in Stores Isn't Enough: Food Security in Africa - MBM #24
July 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBDr 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: Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast --- About Catherine: Twitter LinkedIn Website Shownotes: - NASA Harvest - Catherine’s Bio on University of Maryland’s website Bo...
Emily Darling & Kim Fisher - The Challenges of Mapping Coral Reefs When Satellites Can't See Them - #MBM 23
June 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBEmily 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 Awa...
Arjen Vrielink - Getting to Zero Deforestation with Satellite Images - MBM #22
June 01, 2022 09:00 - 2 hours - 137 MBArjen 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: Twitter LinkedIn Satelligence --- Episode Sponsors: Radiant Earth Foundation: Apply for the 2022 Radiant MLHub Impact Award for agriculture-related applications for Africa - with a $5,000 ...
Barbara Ryan - How Landsat Became Free & Open - MBM #21
May 15, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 160 MBBarbara 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...
Ep 20 - Jonathan Lacoste - From Founder to Investor in the Space Industry, Making Space Un-Sexy & Building in Public
May 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBJonathan Lacoste is an Investor at Space.VC, a Venture Capital firm he started in 2021 after having founded & sold Jebbit (a company focused on aggregating & analyzing user data online for businesses for advertising). We talk about how his experience at Jebbit translates to the Earth Observation industry, why he moved from founding to investing and the learning-in-public approach he's taking. — Episode Sponsors: Radiant Earth Foundation: Apply for the 2022 Radiant MLHub Impact Award for...
Ep 19 - Jeff Crusey - Basics of Venture Capital Investing in Earth Observation, Weighing Risk & The Difference between Data & Analytics Companies
April 15, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBJeff Crusey is the Investment Director of Seraphim Space, an investing firm specialised in the space industry. They have invested in mulitple Earth Observation companies including Spire, Iceye, HawkEye 360 and Pixxel. This episode in many ways serves as an introduction to investing - specifically Venture Capital (VC in short) - applied to the world of Earth Observation: How funds are raised, how VCs decided who to invest in and how they do it. — Episode Sponsors: Radiant Earth Foundation...
1 Year of Podcasting
April 14, 2022 08:00 - 9 minutes - 9.05 MBA year ago, I started this podcast, not knowing where it would go. 18 interviews later, I'm more excited than ever to keep doing more of these, and get even better at it. This episode is also on Youtube if you'd like to see the video too Reach out and let me know who you'd like to see on the podcast! - On the website - On Twitter Timestamps: 00:00 - Episode also on YouTube 00:18 - Introduction 00:41 - Quick look back on 1 year 02:14 - Future of Minds Behind Maps 03:18 - Th...
Ep 18 - Jakub Dziwisz - Orbify, No Code Earth Observation & Saas-like Business Models
April 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBJakub Dziwisz is the founder & CEO of Orbify, a company that is attempting to simplify the process of building Earth Observation solutions for any application. — Episode Sponsors: Radiant Earth Foundation: Apply for the 2022 Radiant MLHub Impact Award for agriculture-related applications for Africa - with a $5,000 cash prize. Element84 Dan Pilone’s appearance on the podcast — About Jakub: Twitter LinkedIn Orbify Shownotes: Orbify Book & Media recomendation: You’re already list...
Ep 17 - Jacopo Margutti - Red Cross, Humanitarian Data Science & Moving from Physical to Digital Aid
March 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBJacopo Margutti is a Data Scientist at 510, the Data branch of the Netherlands Red Cross which uses remote sensing, ground measured data and insights from social media to understand & react to humanitarian crisis. During this conversation, we touch on the the work the Red Cross does around impact forecasting of typhoons, how they have helped covid vaccine distribution, but also how to work on a tight budget to provide the maximum amount of help. Jacopo talks about the desire to move towards ...