The Scene From Above Podcast

Welcome to Season 15, during which we will host a series of conversations around the question: 'Is the future of geospatial in the cloud?' With ever increasing amounts of satellite data and computational power available, moving geospatial workflows to the cloud opens the doors to powerful insights. But what does it take to really switch to doing things in a cloud-native way? Let's find out together. In the first episode, we talk to Jed Sundwall, the Executive Director of Radiant Earth. Jed has been instrumental in bringing open geospatial data to the cloud. Under Radiant Earth, he started two initiatives, the ‘CNG - the cloud-native geospatial forum’ and the ‘source cooperative’. In this conversation, Jed will shed some light on where he sees the geospatial industry heading... --- Sign-up for our Cloud-Native Geospatial 101 training and use the exclusive discount code CNGPODCAST - https://bit.ly/geospatial_cloud   --- Github discussion about the definition of cloud-native geospatial data - https://github.com/cloudnativegeo/cloudnativegeo.org/issues/18  More about Jed: Website - https://jed.co/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedsundwall/  More about Radiant Earth - https://radiant.earth/  More about the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) - https://cloudnativegeo.org/    Watch this episode on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-86IH4DouY  --- Season 15 of Scene from Above is brought to you by thriveGEO. 

In the first episode of Season 14, we talk to Dr. Vivian Ribeiro about the challenges and opportunities of the new European Union Deforestation free Regulation (EUDR) in the Earth Observation Sector. Dr. Vivian Ribeiro is a senior data scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute and currently leads the spatial intelligence team in the Trase - Intelligence for Sustainable Trade initiative. She is also the co-founder and technical coordinator of the Do Pasto ao Prato app, a collaborative initiative aimed at increasing transparency in the Brazilian meat industry. Vivian holds degrees in biology from the University of Goias and masters and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Brasilia Twitter: https://twitter.com/vivihrbr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-ribeiro-276357a8/   Shownotes: Do Pasto ao Prato: https://www.dopastoaoprato.com.br/ Trase: www.trase.earth   Season 14 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Muthukumar featured on S14E1: https://bit.ly/EUDREarthObservation   News Correspondent:  Rafaela Tiengo: https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_ Subscribe to Rafaela’s Newsletter! https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/   Hosts, co-host and organizers: Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fl%C3%A1via-de-souza-mendes-phd-1456362b/ Dr. Yhasmin Mendes de Moura https://www.linkedin.com/in/yhasmoura/ Dr. Michelle Picoli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-picoli-234709a2/   Editor and translation: Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.  

In the last episode of Season 13, we talk to Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo about SAR, LiDAR, passive multispectral data, mangroves, biomass estimation, carbon stocks, payment ecosystem services, science communication & much more.  Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, is a NASA scientist!! She is Research Scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center based in Maryland, USA, where she studies forest ecology and ecosystem structure with multi-source remote sensing. Dr. Fatoyinbo has a Doctorate in Environmental sciences from University of Virginia, with a focus on Forest Ecology and Remote Sensing of Mangrove Wetlands. She serves on the GEDI and ICESat-2 Mission Science Teams and is Principal investigator on NASA Earth Science research.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/EarthToLola Research: https://mangrovescience.org/ NASA Directory Page: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/lola.fatoyinbo    Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Ishveena Singh featured on S13E6: https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/esa-biomass-maps-climate-change/    Stay tuned for a bonus episode this summer to round out Season 13 of Scene From Above recapping the season and prospecting what comes next. And as always, thanks for listening!   Shownotes: Dr. Fatoyinbo’s 2011 Presidential Early Career Award: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2012/12-064.html  Minecraft Mangrove Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkR6xX_v0pw Mangrove Science Data Portal: https://mangrovescience.org/data-portal-2/ Global Mangrove Dataset: https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1665 NASA Biodiversity: https://cce.nasa.gov/biodiversity/ Dr. Sassan Saatchi: https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/saatchi/  Dr. Marc Simard twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcLovesEarth Dr. Woody Turner: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/about/our-team/woody-turner    S13E6 News Links: A new web-based mapping application: Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer:https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/imagery/global-land-cover-revealed/?adusf=twitter&aduc=esri_conserv&adut=341c8636-83a0-4da0-859d-54ffafe29c71  ESA's wind mission helps to investigate the nature of volcanic plumes:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27021-0#Abs1  Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor Anomaly:https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/news/recent-landsat-9-tirs-anomaly-pauses-processing-new-landsat-9-data  ESA Biomass satellite will be launched in 2024:https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2023/02/24/esa-biomass-satellite-set-to-map-earths-essential-old-growth-forests/amp/    News Correspondent:  Rafaela Tiengo: https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_ Subscribe to Rafaela’s Newsletter! https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/   Hosts: Dr. Gopika Suresh: https://twitter.com/Go__pika  Dr. Flávia de Souza Mendes: https://twitter.com/flasmendes  Dr. Morgan Crowley: https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley 

This episode features Sabrina Szeto, who is a geospatial consultant who empowers organizations to use geospatial data and technology. She is a Google Developer Expert for Earth Engine. Sabrina has a Masters in Forestry from Yale University and a BA in Anthropology from Princeton University. She also is the co-founder and former Director of Women+ in Geospatial and is currently based near Munich, Germany. Website: https://sabrinaszeto.com/our-work Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaSzeto Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@sabrinaszeto Season 13 of Scene from Above is brought to you by Geoawesomeness and UP42. Be sure to check out the EO Hub article by Aleks Buczkowski: ‘https://geoawesomeness.com/eo-hub/understanding-the-earth-observation-value-chain/’ -------- Show notes: Earth Engine User Meetup YouTube: https://youtube.com/@EarthEngineUserMeetup Fostering user-driven learning communities in-person and virtually: Examples from Earth Engine meetups: https://figshare.com/articles/poster/Fostering_user-driven_learning_communities_in-person_and_virtually_Examples_from_Earth_Engine_meetups/21803250 Earth Engine Community Tutorials: https://sabrinaszeto.com/talks-and-outreach/creating-community-tutorials-for-earth-engine https://github.com/google/earthengine-community/tree/master/tutorials Ten Steps to Build an Inclusive Future for the Geo for Good Community: https://medium.com/google-earth/ten-steps-to-build-an-inclusive-future-for-the-geo-for-good-community-9f808000ab28 Women+ in Geospatial: Women+ in Geospatial Website: https://www.womeningeospatial.org/ Women+ in Geospatial Twitter: https://twitter.com/geospatialwomen Women+ in Geospatial LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-geospatial/   Hosts: Dr. Flavia de Souza Mendes https://twitter.com/flasmendes Dr. Gopika Suresh https://twitter.com/Go__pika Dr. Morgan Crowley https://twitter.com/morganahcrowley News correspondent: Rafaela Tiengo https://twitter.com/RafaelaTiengo_ Rafaela's newsletter: https://rafaelatiengo.substack.com/   Previewing our next guest on S13E6: They are a remote sensing research scientist with NASA, They have used SAR, LiDAR and passive optical data in their research, They created the first 3D mangrove forest structure map for Africa.