Latest Earth observation Podcast Episodes
Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt - MBM#65
Minds Behind Maps - April 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSponsor: 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 Pro...
Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet, Building the Simplest Mapping Library & Life in Ukraine
Minds Behind Maps - April 01, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsVolodymyr 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. V...
Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63
Minds Behind Maps - March 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsQiusheng 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...
Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level - MBM#62
Minds Behind Maps - March 01, 2024 13:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRyan 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 t...
Gilberto Camara - Brazil's Fight Against Deforestation; Politics & Open Data - MBM#61
Minds Behind Maps - February 15, 2024 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGilberto 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” ...
Thomas Ager: The Essentials of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) - MBM#60
Minds Behind Maps - February 01, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThomas 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 &...
Brian McClendon: The Story of Google Maps, Pokemon Go & Keyhole - MBM#59
Minds Behind Maps - January 15, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBrian 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 ...
Ariel Seidman - Taking on Google Maps, Crowdsourced mapping & Crypto - MBM#58
Minds Behind Maps - January 01, 2024 15:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAriel 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 a...
Best of 2023: 12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite Images & Tech - MBM#57
Minds Behind Maps - December 15, 2023 17:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt'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 P...
Jason Boone: Animating Maps for a Living, Working with Johnny Harris & Joining a Tech Startup - #MBM56
Minds Behind Maps - December 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJason 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 animat...
Javier de la Torre: From Biologist to Entrepreneur, How Maps Help Preserve Biodiversity & Hosting Conferences - MBM#55
Minds Behind Maps - November 15, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJavier 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 adaption...
Hongwei Liu: What It Takes to Actually Map the Indoors, Hard Work & Finding the Right Things to Work on - MBM#54
Minds Behind Maps - November 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHongwei 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, w...
Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone, Finding What (& with whom) to work on - MBM#53
Minds Behind Maps - October 15, 2023 10:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSean 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 wit...
Harold Goddijn: The Full Story of TomTom, Selling Millions of Devices, the impact of the iPhone & mapping today - MBM#52
Minds Behind Maps - October 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHarold 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 fascinat...
James Killick: Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - MBM#51
Minds Behind Maps - September 15, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJames 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 ...
Aravind Ravichandran: From Images to Actions: An Introduction to Earth Observation - MBM#50
Minds Behind Maps - September 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAravind 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 ...
Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact Observatory, Descartes Labs & National Geographic - MBM#49
Minds Behind Maps - August 15, 2023 14:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSteve 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 Natio...
Robert Cheetham & Dan Pilone: Building Businesses that Last, Bootstrapping & Acquisitions - MBM#48
Minds Behind Maps - August 01, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRobert 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 acqui...
Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases & Health - MBM#47
Minds Behind Maps - July 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDr 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 boo...
Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative - MBM#46
Minds Behind Maps - July 01, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCan 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 satel...
Zhuang-Fang Nana Yi: Satellite Imagery to Solve Local Problems - MBM#45
Minds Behind Maps - June 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsZhuang-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 podca...
Jed Sundwall: Making Open Data Actually Accessible (in a world with ChatGPT) - MBM#44
Minds Behind Maps - June 01, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJed 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 fo...
Marc Prioleau: The Overture Maps Foundation: Do We Need a New Open Mapping Project? - MBM#43
Minds Behind Maps - May 16, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMarc 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...
Grega Milčinski: The Story of Sentinel Hub, EO Browser & Sinergise: Making Free & Open Satellite Imagery Actually Accessible - MBM#42
Minds Behind Maps - May 01, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGrega 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 s...
Mila Luleva: Why Would a Bank Care About Satellite Images? (Spoiler: It's Carbon Credits) - MBM#41
Minds Behind Maps - April 15, 2023 14:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMila 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 farmer...
Renny Babiarz: Exposing China's Nuclear Testing - MBM#40
Minds Behind Maps - April 01, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRenny 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 testi...
Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique Infrastructure to Support Disaster Response - MBM#39
Minds Behind Maps - March 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsKuo-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 ...
Benjamin Grant: Generating Awe and Using Satellite Images to Inspire Millions - MBM#38
Minds Behind Maps - February 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBenjamin 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...
Iain Woodhouse: Understanding Radar Satellite Images - MBM#37
Minds Behind Maps - January 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIain 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. ---...
2022 Recap: Best Moments From Conversations this Year - MBM#36
Minds Behind Maps - January 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAs 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...