TerraWatch Space Podcast
117 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDemystifying Earth Observation, Satellite Data and Applications
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#75: EUSPA: The European Union Agency for the Space Programme and its role in Earth Observation - Chiara Solimini
June 30, 2023 16:30 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBToday, I am speaking with Chiara Solimini, Space Downstream Market Officer at EUSPA, the agency that manages the space programme of the European Union. In this episode, we discuss what EUSPA is and its activities, the role of EUSPA in promoting the use of data from the Copernicus programme, the European Green Deal and how Copernicus enables its implementation, how EUSPA encourages research and entrepreneurship and more. If you don't know much about EUSPA and want to learn more about how it...
#74: Earth Observation for Development: From Imagery to Impact - Rhiannan Price, DevGlobal
June 24, 2023 20:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBToday, I am speaking with Rhiannan Price, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at DevGlobal. DevGlobal is a consultancy that works in the development sector on impact projects with the world’s leading non-profits, companies, philanthropies, multilateral agencies, and government agencies. Rhiannan has been working in Earth observation for a while, especially on the impact side of things. Prior to her role at DevGlobal, she led the Sustainable Development portfolio at Maxar, where she helped...
#73: A Deep-Dive on Planetary Variables - Thijs van Leeuwen, Planet
June 14, 2023 15:55 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBToday, I am speaking with Thijs van Leeuwen, Director of Product at Planet. Most of you should be aware of Planet, the company that operates the largest fleet of earth imaging satellites. A couple of years ago, Planet acquired VanderSat, a Dutch startup offering data products like soil moisture derived from various sources of satellite data. Today, VanderSat's capabilities are integrated into Planet and the fruit of that collaboration is what Planet calls Planetary Variables (PVs), a set of...
#72: Why Space Sustainability Matters for Earth Observation - Krystal Azelton, Secure World Foundation
June 02, 2023 10:30 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBToday, we are zooming out from Earth observation a little bit and going to focus on a subject that I think is very important for the future of EO: space sustainability. We are launching more Earth observation satellites than ever before, and the progress in space tech has meant that any individual, organisation or country can put up an instrument in space to collect data for scientific, commercial, environmental or strategic purposes. But how sustainable is that? To discuss this I had Kry...
#71: Translating Climate Science into Quantifiable Climate Risk Analytics - Dr Claire Burke, Climate X
May 26, 2023 12:30 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBToday, I am speaking with Dr Claire Burke, who is the Director of Science at Climate X, a UK-based startup that is building a global climate risk analytics platform to support organisations in their climate adaptation efforts. In this episode, we talk about what Climate X does, their tech stack and how they use satellite data, how they convert scientific results into climate risk analytics, the "black-box problem" challenges in educating end-users and more. This was a thought-provoking co...
#70: L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar: Commercial Applications & Market Potential - Asterra
May 19, 2023 10:30 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBToday, I have two guests from Asterra, the Israeli startup offering a satellite-based solution for monitoring all kinds of infrastructure, whether it is for monitoring roads, rails, dams, water utilities and even for mining. While Asterra uses analytics derived from synthetic aperture radar (or SAR) imagery in their products, they use a specific type of SAR data in the L-band spectrum. Note: I have had the CEO of Asterra on the podcast before. Check out episode #60 to learn more about the ...
#69: Satellite Imagery in 3D: Market Potential, Use Cases and Go-to-Market Strategy - Josh Winer, Maxar
May 10, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBToday, I am excited to bring you an episode on a topic that I have been researching for a while - satellite imagery in 3D. The guest I am speaking with is Josh Winer who is a Senior Director for Global Sales at Maxar Technologies. Maxar probably needs no introduction as a company, I think most of you know what Maxar does both within the Earth observation domain and outside that. But, if you had paid attention to the company over the past few years, going private aside, Maxar has been heavil...
#68: The Importance of Open Source, Project vs Product, Boring Problems in Earth Observation and More - Element84
May 05, 2023 11:30 - 58 minutes - 54 MBToday, I have two guests: Dan Pilone, co-founder of Element84 and Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, which Element84 recently acquired. Both Element84 and Azavea are essentially service companies that focus on building solutions to solve important problems in the realm of processing, visualization, and analysis of geospatial data, with open-source software at their core. I will let you listen to Dan and Robert introduce their companies and what they do, but I think they are solving some ve...
#67: Building an Effective Earth Observation Adoption Strategy - Pooja Mahapatra, Fugro
April 23, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBToday, I am speaking with Pooja Mahapatra, who is the Global Lead of Geospatial for Climate at Fugro, a Netherlands-based company focused on geotechnical and surveying services for monitoring infrastructure. As you will hear from Pooja, geospatial data is central to Fugro's strategy and one of the fundamental technologies that power their products and services in the infrastructure, energy and water verticals. As such, they have an interesting approach to using satellite data in combination...
#66: Earth Observation for Climate Intelligence - Dr Benjamin Laken, Cervest
April 05, 2023 16:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBToday, I am speaking with Dr Benjamin Laken, who is the Chief Science Officer at Cervest, a UK-based startup building a climate intelligence platform to support climate adaptation efforts for enterprises, governments and non-profits. Climate risk is an important topic and satellite data has a lot to offer for estimating it. Whether it is the climate risk for an individual, an asset, an infrastructure or even an entire city, understanding the probabilities of scenarios is becoming more and m...
#65: Platforms, Analysis Ready Data, Democratisation and Other Buzzwords in Earth Observation - Grega Milčinski, Sinergise / Sentinel Hub
March 29, 2023 12:30 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBToday, I am speaking with Grega Milčinski, CEO of Sinergise, a geospatial IT company based in Slovenia. Sinergise is most well-known for their flagship product, Sentinel Hub, which is a platform for accessing, processing and analysing Earth observation data. Grega has been around in the EO sector for a while now and has a ton of insight into the most important problems in EO revolving around making satellite data usable for all. In this episode, Grega and I talk about his company, about S...
#64: Using Satellite Data for Modelling Flood Risk - Prof. Paul Bates, Fathom
March 22, 2023 17:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBToday, I am speaking with Professor Paul Bates, Chairman and Co-founder of Fathom, a UK-based startup specialising in water risk intelligence. We have already had one episode on floods recently with Floodbase, a company that is working on creating near real-time flood maps, but in this episode with Paul, we discuss how flood risk is measured and modelled, how this data is used to anticipate flood hazards and the role of satellite data in all of this. In this episode, Paul and I talk about ...
#63: Edge Computing for Earth Observation - Sean Mitchell, Ubotica
March 15, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBToday, I am speaking with Sean Mitchell, Chairman & Chief Commercial Officer at Ubotica, an AI-driven edge computing startup from Ireland. Edge computing is a technology that has started to create a lot of buzz in the Earth observation sector. Enabling some processing of satellite data on-board the satellite before downlinking seems efficient, but the execution may not be straightforward. Ubotica is a startup focused on solving that with their edge computing platform solution, which they ha...
#62: State of Ground Segment for Earth Observation and Ground Software As a Service - Brad Bode, ATLAS Space Operations
March 08, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBToday, I am speaking with Brad Bode, CTO & CIO at ATLAS Space Operations, which is a ground software as a service company. Ground segment is an area of the space industry which really doesn't get a lot attention, despite the fact that it is the bridge between data acquired in space and data collected on Earth. So, I had Brad on the podcast to discuss the state of ground segment and the impact on EO sector. In this episode, Brad and I talk about what ATLAS Space Operations does, why ground s...
#61: Mapping Floods in Near-Real Time with Satellite Data for Parametric Insurance - Floodbase
March 02, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBToday, I have two guests Bessie Schwarz, co-founder & CEO and Subit Chakrabarti, VP of Technology at Floodbase. Floodbase, which used to be called Cloud to Street, before their rebrand recently, is a climate-tech startup using satellite imagery to build flood data products for use by the insurance sector. In this episode, Bessie, Subit and I discuss what Floodbase does, their tech stack, what types of satellite data they use, why they publish their methodologies and collaborate with the a...
#60: Translating Satellite Data into Insights and Metrics for Infrastructure Monitoring - Elly Perets, Asterra
February 22, 2023 18:30 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBToday, I am sharing an insightful discussion I had with Elly Perets, CEO of Asterra. Asterra is a startup headquartered in Israel, that offers a platform for monitoring all kinds of infrastructure, whether it is for monitoring roads, rails, dams, water utilities or even for mining - based on synthetic aperture radar (or SAR) data. SAR, as some of you know, is pretty hard to process, but Asterra has managed to not only develop a scalable product that derives insights from SAR data but also m...
#59: Launching Proprietary Satellites and Becoming a Vertically Integrated Earth Observation Company - SatSure
February 19, 2023 12:03 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBWe have got an interesting episode today, I know I say that for most episodes, but this one is actually quite interesting because we are talking about a strategy that not many companies have pursued in Earth observation - starting as a product company and offering solutions based on EO data, then deciding to go up the value chain and launch proprietary satellites. We have got only a handful of companies who decided to go with this approach and SatSure, a startup from India, is one of them....
[Reshare] NewSpace India Podcast: Reviewing the Status of Earth Observation in India
February 11, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBThis week, I am sharing an episode from the New Space India podcast where I was invited to talk about all things Earth observation, particularly focusing on India. The New Space India podcast is hosted by Narayan Prasad, the co-founder and COO of satsearch and is the go-to podcast to learn about space tech in India. I thought I will share this episode here as we covered a lot of interesting topics that might be interesting for you. In this episode, Narayan and I discuss the state of EO in ...
#58: The Future of Earth Observation with Jed Sundwall, Radiant Earth Foundation
February 01, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBJed is the Executive Director of the Radiant Earth Foundation and used be the Open Data Lead at Amazon Web Services. Jed is an influential thinker in the Earth observation space and he has been part of a number of important milestones in this sector. I wanted to have Jed on the podcast to talk about his thoughts on the future of Earth observation, especially following one of the blog posts he had written last year. I recommend you check it out (linked below). In this episode, Jed and I dis...
#57: Satellite Imagery and Analytics On-Demand with SkyFi - Bill Perkins and Luke Fischer
January 25, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBToday I am speaking with with Bill Perkins, Founder of SkyFi and Luke Fischer, CEO of SkyFi. SkyFi, which just recently went live with their product, aims to democratise satellite imagery and make it affordable, accessible and usable for everyone. I recommend checking out their app, which looks pretty cool. In this episode, we talk about the founding story of SkyFi and their vision, the importance of making satellite imagery accessible to 'the hive mind', differences in how the B2C and the...
#56: Earth Observation for Sustainable Development Goals - Dr. Argyro Kavvada, NASA
January 18, 2023 11:45 - 47 minutes - 38.3 MBHappy new year, everyone. Hope you are having a great start to the year. Back to podcasting after the much-needed break! Today, I am speaking with Dr. Argyro Kavvada, who is the program manager at NASA’s Earth Sciences Division for their Sustainable Development Goals initiative, essentially focusing on how to translate Earth observation for sustainable development. It is an area I have always been fascinated about not just for the obvious reasons, but also because it focuses on converting ...
#55: Adopting Earth Observation: An End-User Perspective - Mila Luleva, Rabobank
December 14, 2022 13:30 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBToday, I am speaking with Mila Luleva from Rabobank, a multinational banking and financial services company, where Mila heads the remote sensing team. You might wonder what a bank is doing with Earth observation data and how they are going about integrating this technology into their processes. That's exactly why I wanted to have Mila on the podcast. In this episode, we talk about Rabobank and their business, how they use remote sensing, how they make decisions of developing EO solutions i...
#54: Building A Health Guard For the Planet Using Hyperspectral Imagery - Awais Ahmed, Pixxel
December 07, 2022 13:50 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBToday, I am speaking with Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel, a space tech startup founded in India, with offices in the US, that is launching a constellation of Earth observation satellites collecting hyperspectral imagery. I have tracked Pixxel with two lenses over the years - one with my consultant hat analysing how this new startup will position itself and grow in the EO market and second, with my India hat looking at how Awais and his team in India are building India's first com...
#53: Simplifying Geospatial Data Access & Processing - Sean Wiid, UP42
November 30, 2022 22:15 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBIn this episode, I am speaking with Sean Wiid, CEO of UP42, an Earth observation company providing simplified access to geospatial data and processing. UP42 has had quite an interesting journey over the years. I would put in the category of platforms in the rapidly growing EO market, providing access to multiple sources of geospatial data from different providers, along with other sources of complementary data and analytics - essentially making data easy to find, access and use to develop ...
#52: On-Premise Intelligence for the Defense Sector With AI and Satellite Imagery - Arnaud Guérin, Preligens
November 18, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBIn this episode, I am speaking with Arnaud Guérin from Preligens, startup based in France that is building software for the defence & intelligence sector, by applying artificial intelligence to satellite imagery, among other data sources. Preligens was in the news recently as they won a 7-year long, 240M EUR contract from the Ministere des Armees, the French Ministry of Defence , which I thought was a big win for both the company and the EO sector in Europe. The company has an interesting...
#51: Getting To Zero Deforestation with Satellite Imagery - Arjen Vrielink, Satelligence
November 09, 2022 11:30 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBIn this episode, I am speaking with Arjen Vrielink from Satelligence. Satelligence is a startup based in the Netherlands that is building solutions to monitor deforestation, track supply chains and carbon stocks using Earth observation data. Arjen has been a twitter friend for a while and I really like his pragmatic takes on the future of the industry and outlook for EO. So, we talked about exactly that! In this episode. we discuss about his company Satelligence, their journey, strategy ...
#50: Earth Observation Programme Proposal at the 2022 Ministerial Council - Simonetta Cheli, ESA
November 04, 2022 10:50 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBWelcome to episode #50. This is a special one and it is been in the making for a while! Today, I am speaking with Simonetta Cheli, the Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency (or ESA). November is an important month for ESA as the Ministerial Council is coming up shortly, scheduled on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2022 in Paris. The Ministerial Council is the meeting that happens once in three years, where ESA's Member States, Associate States and Cooperating ...
#49: EUMETSAT: Monitoring Weather & Climate from Space with Paul Counet, EUMETSAT
October 26, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBIn this episode, I speak with Paul Counet, Head of Strategy and International Relations at EUMETSAT. EUMETSAT (or) The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites is an intergovernmental organisation with 30 Member States in Europe, with an objective to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites. EUMETSAT is one of the key actors that is responsible for maintaining a global meteorological satellite observing system ...
#48: Geospatial MLOps with Picterra
October 19, 2022 06:30 - 50 minutes - 46 MBToday, I have two guests on the podcast - Pierrick Poulenas, co-founder and CEO of Picterra along with Pascal van Dalen, the Chief Growth Officer. Picterra is an Earth observation startup based in Switzerland, providing a platform to train, deploy, and manage geospatial models at scale. Picterra sits at what I call the "Distribution" layer of Earth observation, allowing users to make sense of geospatial data and operationalise it within their organisations. I have been following them for m...
#47: Democratising Earth Observation with James Slifierz, SkyWatch
October 12, 2022 11:15 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBToday, I am speaking with James Slifierz, from SkyWatch. For those who don't know, SkyWatch is a Canadian startup that aims to remove the barriers to accessing commercial satellite imagery, through two offerings - one called EarthCache that is a one-stop shop to acquire commercial satellite data and the other called TerraStream that provides an ideal way for satellite operators to go-to-market with their data. SkyWatch is one of my favourite EO companies. I have been following SkyWatch for ...
#46: GEO: A Global, Authoritative Voice on Earth Observation with Yana Gevorgyan, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
September 28, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBToday, I am speaking with Yana Gevorgyan, the Secretariat Director of the Group on Earth Observations (or GEO). GEO is a unique global network connecting government institutions, academic and research institutions, data providers, businesses, engineers, scientists and experts to create innovative solutions based on Earth observation. I wanted to have Yana on the podcast to discuss what GEO does and its role in the global EO sector, especially at a time when the importance of EO is growing a...
#45: Making Earth Observation FAIR with Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
September 28, 2022 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBToday, I am speaking with Nadine Alameh, the CEO of Open Geospatial Consortium, an international organisation dedicated to making geospatial data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) through consensus-based standards, collaborative innovation projects, and industry partnerships. I wanted to have Nadine on the podcast to speak about the importance of standards and interoperability in Earth observation - an area that I think doesn't get a lot of attention. If you have liste...
#44: Filling Socioeconomic Data Gaps with Satellite Data - Abe Tarapani, Atlas AI
September 07, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBToday, I am speaking with Abe Tarapani, CEO of Atlas AI. I wanted to feature Atlas AI as “Startup of the Month” on the podcast as I believe they are doing something very important and impactful with satellite data. I will let you listen to Abe explaining what Atlas AI does, but to give you an idea, they are attempting to fill the gaps in socioeconomic and environmental data across parts of the world that don’t have access to such data, leveraging Earth observation and machine learning, ther...
[Startup of the Month] #44: Filling Socioeconomic Data Gaps with Satellite Data - Abe Tarapani, Atlas AI
September 07, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBToday, I am speaking with Abe Tarapani, CEO of Atlas AI. I wanted to feature Atlas AI as “Startup of the Month” on the podcast as I believe they are doing something very important and impactful with satellite data. I will let you listen to Abe explaining what Atlas AI does, but to give you an idea, they are attempting to fill the gaps in socioeconomic and environmental data across parts of the world that don’t have access to such data, leveraging Earth observation and machine learning, ther...
#43: Building Turnkey Earth Observation Missions - Jonny Dyer, Muon Space
August 31, 2022 10:45 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBToday, I am speaking with Jonny Dyer, co-founder and CEO of Muon Space. Muon Space is a recently-founded startup based in California that is developing an Earth observation satellite platform that would bring remote sensing capability to organisations that lack the expertise needed to develop it themselves. Jonny Dyer is well-known in the Earth observation world - he was the Chief Engineer of Skybox, the first venture-funded EO company that was bought by Google and then sold to Planet. He t...
[EO Company Of The Month] #43: Building Turnkey Earth Observation Missions - Jonny Dyer, Muon Space
August 31, 2022 10:45 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBToday, I am speaking with Jonny Dyer, co-founder and CEO of Muon Space. Muon Space is a recently-founded startup based in California that is developing an Earth observation satellite platform that would bring remote sensing capability to organisations that lack the expertise needed to develop it themselves. Jonny Dyer is well-known in the Earth observation world - he was the Chief Engineer of Skybox, the first venture-funded EO company that was bought by Google and then sold to Planet. He t...
[Company Of The Month] #43: Building Turnkey Earth Observation Missions - Jonny Dyer, Muon Space
August 31, 2022 10:45 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBToday, I am speaking with Jonny Dyer, co-founder and CEO of Muon Space. Muon Space is a recently-founded startup based in California that is developing an Earth observation satellite platform that would bring remote sensing capability to organisations that lack the expertise needed to develop it themselves. Jonny Dyer is well-known in the Earth observation world - he was the Chief Engineer of Skybox, the first venture-funded EO company that was bought by Google and then sold to Planet. He t...
#42: Communicating Earth Observation and Climate with Prof Chris Rapley, University College London
August 24, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBToday, I am speaking with Prof. Chris Rapley from University College London. From working on Earth observations missions to study the polar regions with radar altimetry instruments to actually researching there as the director of British Antarctic Survey, Prof Chris Rapley is an accomplished scientist. He was also the Director of the Science Museum in the UK for a few years, and is now currently Professor of Climate Science at University College London. Chris is also the member of the Eur...
#41: Improving the Adoption of Earth Observation Data with Daniel Wicks, Satellite Applications Catapult
August 17, 2022 13:03 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBToday, I am speaking with Daniel Wicks, head of geospatial intelligence at Satellite Applications Catapult in the UK. Satellite Applications Catapult is an entity set up by the UK, and is one of nine Catapults, aimed at building innovation and driving economic growth. I was interested to speak with Dan because I believe the organisation is doing important work in being the bridge between the satellite data producers, which is Earth observation industry and the rest of the world, who are th...
#40: [Startup of the Month] Blue Sky Analytics: Bloomberg Terminal for Environmental Data
August 11, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBHousekeeping: This is the first episode after the break, after officially launching my business TerraWatch Space. As I mentioned in the blog post, I am going to be changing the format of the podcast a little. The "Startup of the Month" is where I will have an interesting startup in Earth observation on the podcast to give them a platform for highlighting what they are building. Today's episode with Blue Sky Analytics is the first of that series. If you like your startup to be on the podcas...
#40: Blue Sky Analytics: Bloomberg Terminal for Environmental Data
August 11, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBHousekeeping: This is the first episode after the break, after officially launching my business TerraWatch Space. As I mentioned in the blog post, I am going to be changing the format of the podcast a little. The "Startup of the Month" is where I will have an interesting startup in Earth observation on the podcast to give them a platform for highlighting what they are building. Today's episode with Blue Sky Analytics is the first of that series. If you like your startup to be on the podcas...
Looking Back & Looking Forward: The Future of the TerraWatch Space Podcast
August 07, 2022 11:22 - 9 minutes - 8.65 MBLooking back at the journey of TerraWatch Space podcast and its future - some gratitude, some learnings & some thoughts on how I want to see the podcast grow, as I go full-time on TerraWatch Space with the goal of making satellite data mainstream. Usual episodes should start on Wednesday. Thank you! -Aravind
#39: Demystifying Spacecraft Operations for Exploration and Earth Observation Missions - Thomas Ormston, ESA
June 26, 2022 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBToday, I am speaking with Thomas Ormston, Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager for the Sentinel-1 mission at the European Space Agency. Thomas has over 15 years of experience in spacecraft operations from being part of the operations team for the Mars Express mission to then becoming the spacecraft operations engineer for EarthCARE and Sentinel-1 missions. In this episode, we discuss the role of a spacecraft operations engineer, his experience flying a spacecraft in Mars orbit, the differen...
#38: Interoperability, Standards & Trainings: Solving "Boring Problems" in Earth Observation with Julia Wagemann
June 17, 2022 12:57 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBToday, I am speaking with Julia Wagemann, an independent consultant and project manager in the Earth observation sector. Julia works in the intersection of data providers and users aiming to make large volumes of EO data better accessible and used. She has several years of experience in EO and she has worked with organisations including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF and more. For me, "boring problems" are categories of problems very few are interested in working on, but unless they are solved, the i...
#37: Demystifying Weather with Dr. Marshall Shepherd
June 03, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBToday I am speaking with Dr. Marshall Shepherd, an American meteorologist, professor at the University of Georgia and the director of the university's atmospheric sciences program. Dr.Shepherd was the 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society and a past chair of the NASA Earth Sciences Advisory Committee.Dr. Shepherd is also the host of the popular podcast Weather Geeks and a contributor to Forbes Magazine. In this episode, Marshall and I discuss his story, the fundamentals of w...
#37: Demystifying Weather from Space with Dr. Marshall Shepherd
June 03, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBToday I am speaking with Dr. Marshall Shepherd, an American meteorologist, professor at the University of Georgia and the director of the university's atmospheric sciences program. Dr.Shepherd was the 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society and a past chair of the NASA Earth Sciences Advisory Committee.Dr. Shepherd is also the host of the popular podcast Weather Geeks and a contributor to Forbes Magazine. In this episode, Marshall and I discuss his story, the fundamentals of w...
#36: Market Leading Strategies in Earth Observation - John Murtagh, Airbus Intelligence
May 20, 2022 01:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBToday, I am speaking with John Murtagh from Airbus Intelligence. I don't think the company requires an introduction - Airbus Intelligence has been delivering value from satellite imagery for over 30 years. John Murtagh is the Head of Strategy for the Intelligence program unit of Airbus Defence and Space. Since joining Airbus in 1992, John has undertaken a wide range of roles, worked in over 30 countries on all continents, and is an executive member driving Intelligence strategies. In this...
#35: From a Software Entrepreneur to a Space Tech Investor - Jonathan Lacoste, SpaceVC
May 15, 2022 09:35 - 44 minutes - 41 MBToday I am speaking with Jonathan Lacoste, General Partner at SpaceVC, a venture capital firm investing in space companies. I was keen on getting Jonathan on the podcast because he has quite an interesting story. In 2011, he co-founded Jebbit, an enterprise software company, built it and scaled it into a multi-million dollar businesses. Following that, he decided to get into the space industry as an investor. In this episode, we discuss the journey of his transition into space tech, his th...
#34: End-to-End Space Mobility - David Henri, Exotrail
May 08, 2022 16:05 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBToday, I am speaking with David Henri, co-founder and chief product officer of Exotrail. Exotrail is a French NewSpace startup that is focusing on space mobility meaning, enabling small satellites to move in space, optimising their deployment, and increasing their performance. In this episode, David and I talk about what is going on in the French NewSpace ecosystem, the differences between US and European startups, the last-mile delivery market (in space), Exotrail and their strategy and m...
#33: Thermal Infrared Imagery (+Hyperspectral) for Agriculture - ConstellR (+ScanWorld)
April 30, 2022 21:30 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBToday, I am speaking with Max Gulde, co-founder and CEO of ConstellR, Cassi Welling, COO of ConstellR and Guerric de Crombrugghe, Chief Product Officer of ConstellR and former CEO of ScanWorld. ConstellR is an Earth observation startup, focusing on collecting thermal infrared data from space for agriculture. I find them interesting because, even though infrared data has applications across industries, they decided to focus on building products for the agriculture sector. This is what I call...