Latest Geospatial Podcast Episodes

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#75: EUSPA: The European Union Agency for the Space Programme and its role in Earth Observation - Chiara Solimini

TerraWatch Space Podcast - June 30, 2023 16:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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...

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#74: Earth Observation for Development: From Imagery to Impact - Rhiannan Price, DevGlobal

TerraWatch Space Podcast - June 24, 2023 20:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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.  Rhian...

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#73: A Deep-Dive on Planetary Variables - Thijs van Leeuwen, Planet

TerraWatch Space Podcast - June 14, 2023 15:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 ...

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Enterprise GIS and Kubernetes

More Than Just Maps - June 08, 2023 22:00 - 53 minutes
In this edition, we speak with Bryan Palus and Jason Harris from Rok Technologies about Enterprise GIS. In detail, we discuss the history of Enterprise GIS, a powerful enterprise tool known as Kubernetes, and what all this means to the GIS practitioner now and in the future. 

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#72: Why Space Sustainability Matters for Earth Observation - Krystal Azelton, Secure World Foundation

TerraWatch Space Podcast - June 02, 2023 10:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 individ...

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#71: Translating Climate Science into Quantifiable Climate Risk Analytics - Dr Claire Burke, Climate X

TerraWatch Space Podcast - May 26, 2023 12:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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...

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#70: L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar: Commercial Applications & Market Potential - Asterra

TerraWatch Space Podcast - May 19, 2023 10:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 ...

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#69: Satellite Imagery in 3D: Market Potential, Use Cases and Go-to-Market Strategy - Josh Winer, Maxar

TerraWatch Space Podcast - May 10, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 ...

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#68: The Importance of Open Source, Project vs Product, Boring Problems in Earth Observation and More - Element84

TerraWatch Space Podcast - May 05, 2023 11:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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, visualiza...

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#67: Building an Effective Earth Observation Adoption Strategy - Pooja Mahapatra, Fugro

TerraWatch Space Podcast - April 23, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 ...

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#66: Earth Observation for Climate Intelligence - Dr Benjamin Laken, Cervest

TerraWatch Space Podcast - April 05, 2023 16:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 l...

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#65: Platforms, Analysis Ready Data, Democratisation and Other Buzzwords in Earth Observation - Grega Milčinski, Sinergise / Sentinel Hub

TerraWatch Space Podcast - March 29, 2023 12:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 sect...

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#64: Using Satellite Data for Modelling Flood Risk - Prof. Paul Bates, Fathom

TerraWatch Space Podcast - March 22, 2023 17:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 ...

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#63: Edge Computing for Earth Observation - Sean Mitchell, Ubotica

TerraWatch Space Podcast - March 15, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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...

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#62: State of Ground Segment for Earth Observation and Ground Software As a Service - Brad Bode, ATLAS Space Operations

TerraWatch Space Podcast - March 08, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 coll...

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#61: Mapping Floods in Near-Real Time with Satellite Data for Parametric Insurance - Floodbase

TerraWatch Space Podcast - March 02, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 insura...

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#60: Translating Satellite Data into Insights and Metrics for Infrastructure Monitoring - Elly Perets, Asterra

TerraWatch Space Podcast - February 22, 2023 18:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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 syn...

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#59: Launching Proprietary Satellites and Becoming a Vertically Integrated Earth Observation Company - SatSure

TerraWatch Space Podcast - February 19, 2023 12:03 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
We 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, the...

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[Reshare] NewSpace India Podcast: Reviewing the Status of Earth Observation in India

TerraWatch Space Podcast - February 11, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This 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...

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#58: The Future of Earth Observation with Jed Sundwall, Radiant Earth Foundation

TerraWatch Space Podcast - February 01, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Jed 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 ...

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#57: Satellite Imagery and Analytics On-Demand with SkyFi - Bill Perkins and Luke Fischer

TerraWatch Space Podcast - January 25, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today 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...

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#56: Earth Observation for Sustainable Development Goals - Dr. Argyro Kavvada, NASA

TerraWatch Space Podcast - January 18, 2023 11:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Happy 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 foc...

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#55: Adopting Earth Observation: An End-User Perspective - Mila Luleva, Rabobank

TerraWatch Space Podcast - December 14, 2022 13:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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....

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#54: Building A Health Guard For the Planet Using Hyperspectral Imagery - Awais Ahmed, Pixxel

TerraWatch Space Podcast - December 07, 2022 13:50 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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...

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#53: Simplifying Geospatial Data Access & Processing - Sean Wiid, UP42

TerraWatch Space Podcast - November 30, 2022 22:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In 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...

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#52: On-Premise Intelligence for the Defense Sector With AI and Satellite Imagery - Arnaud Guérin, Preligens

TerraWatch Space Podcast - November 18, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In 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 ...

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#51: Getting To Zero Deforestation with Satellite Imagery - Arjen Vrielink, Satelligence

TerraWatch Space Podcast - November 09, 2022 11:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In 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 r...

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#50: Earth Observation Programme Proposal at the 2022 Ministerial Council - Simonetta Cheli, ESA

TerraWatch Space Podcast - November 04, 2022 10:50 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Welcome 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 ...

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#49: EUMETSAT: Monitoring Weather & Climate from Space with Paul Counet, EUMETSAT

TerraWatch Space Podcast - October 26, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In 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, m...

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#48: Geospatial MLOps with Picterra

TerraWatch Space Podcast - October 19, 2022 06:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Today, 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. Picter...