A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

News: Trimble releases (re-releases?) Sketchup for iPad   Planet's Pelicans   Storymaps.com Nature Conservancy partnership launches dynamic kelp map No More Anti-Satellite Missiles in the US Drone Blood Delivery Works in Rwanda Mapping signal interference between 5G and GPS To the moon ESA to test GNSS on the moon A KNaCK for the moon   Events :  Digital storytelling festival : May 10 - June 12, v...

News: Arctic scientists work with indigenious tribal elders study Alaska Kotzebue ice   New appointments to NGAC Imagery market forecasted to continue to grow   Topic: What is geospatial today? The constant progression of the definition, focus, and industry    Events :  8th International Conference on Cartography & GIS , Nessebar, Bulgaria 20-25 June  WVAGP 2022 Conference : May 24th, Morgantown W...

News: GPS on Benchmarks program Yellowstone thermal vents mapped Newberry's Crossings exhibit   Topic: Unexpected challenges in working with GIS  

News: MWC GISCI Endorsement Designation Program NGA developing commercial imagery buying guide Goes-t Launch USGS Releases topoBuilder Tool for Custom Topographic Maps New collaboration between Rumsey Map Collection and Machines Reading Maps. mapKurator will scan text in 60,000 georeferenced Rumsey maps. Concerns about Russia targeting GPS, Communications  Hawkeye 360 Premise  

News: SpaceX loses several satellites   Koalas are an endangered species in parts of Australia  GISCI announces June exam date Topic: Isaac Brodsky, fourSquare talks about Unfolded's hex tiles Try it out at studio.unfolded.ai Events :  GeoIgnite 22 : 1-3 March, virtual Citizen Science Conference , 23-26 May, hybrid

News: Google's Firmina subsea cable will run from Myrtle Beach, SC to South America SpaceX Satellite Internet NOAA GOES T launching on March 1st Landsat 9 operational Nearspace 10cm available Public Labs ISS to be retired in 2030 GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released Endurance22 expedition sets to find's Shackleton's lost ship Topic: A few questions about this round of the Metaverse Events :  GISPro call due M...

AVSP Episode 683 January 23, 2022   News: Sentinel 1B issues Tonga eruption 2021 was 6th warmest year 44 superdove satellites launched ArcGIS IPS GISP-R US 5G rollout delayed around airports Topic: We speak to Alastair Bonnett about his 2020 mass market book, Elsewhere , which looks at the role islands play, and touch on his new academic text, Multiracism .  Events :  GEOINT 2022 Symposium GEO Bus...

This week Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst, Associate Director of the GeoTech Center about the Geospatial Education Certificate (GeoEdC). 

News: CES2022 overview Topic:   Frank and Barb sit down with Rebecca Theobald for the second part of our recent series of discussions on redistricting.      Events :  HxGN Live Global : 20-23 June, Las Vegas Commercial UAV Expo : 6-8 September, Las Vegas

News: NOAA approves sell of 10cm data Geospatial Maturity Assessment report Topic: What is "your Geography"? What is your 'take on', 'approach to', path to "here" etc Events :  GIS Pro 2022 : 3-6 Oct, Boise

Housekeeping: We will be receiving an AAG Media Achievement Award Topic: This week we talk to Dr. Emily Yeh of the University Colorado Boulder about her time as the President of AAG, the breadth of Geography, and the upcoming AAG Conference in NYC.  Events :  SatShow 2022 : March 22-24, Washington, DC

News: NASA and ESA partner on collaborative tool and open data   Unity acquiring WETA tools DJI Mavic 3 Snapchat map continues to grow Lockheed Martin contract to build GPS IIIF satellites 15, 16 and 17 (SV15-17) Trimble creates three scholarships to honor Gladys West Topic: Project sustainability is an ongoing issue in digital (and analog) work as accessibility, technology, and data formats chang...

News: SpaceX Crew-3 mission successfully launches and docks with ISS - CREW-3 MISSION - SpaceX - Updates COP26  Fugro New Generation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles Topic: Interview with Christopher Fowler, Associate Professor of Geography and Demography, Penn State University

News: Hexagon Power Portfolio 2022 QGIS 3.22 released NGA launched the Phase 4a of its MagQuest Challenge Landsat 9 proceeding through commissioning phase Topic: Geography Awareness Week 2021 National Geographic AAG AGS     Events :  GeoWeek2022 , Feb 6-8, Denver, CO

News: GEOINT News: NGA plans annual reassessment of commercial remote sensing NRO issues BAA call for commercial remote sensing technologies Preview of NASA'a VIPER Lunar Rover Vautrin Lud Geography Prize goes to geographer from the National University of Singapore Topic: Geo certificates revisited GeoEdC Certification NatGeo Certification ASPRS Certifications GISP Certification GeoINT Certificati...

News: Landsat 9 launched Earth Science Week Geography Awareness Week   Topic: Local foods as a representation of Cultural Geography   Events :  Geography2050 November 15-19, Virtual

News: Amtrak scholarships Landsat 9 launch coming up Topic:   This week we ask some questions about the ideas surrounding data response and data preparedness for hazard events    

News: Greek Scientists want to name heat waves National Geographic and DeBeers partner on Okavango Eternal project   NASA debuts new interactive website for Landsat 9 ahead of launch   Next 3 GPS III satellites complete (sv06, 07, 08) Space Force's Main Job - Protecting GPS Topic:   A quick discussion on the need for resilience in our technology and systems as highlighted by some recent issues.  E...

News: Trimble providing venture funding Haiti Earthquake Census redistricting data available now Topic: Recreating landscapes - snapshots in time and space   Events :  UAS Summit & Expo : 13-14 Oct, Grand Forks, ND

This week we look back on 16 years and celebrate Barb's dissertation defense 

News: Geospatial Revolution Part 5 Hexagon acquires Immersal Autodesk Tandem Esri announcements 90 new analytical features across Pro, Enterprise, Online Heavy focus on AI/ML (GeoAI) ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online SURE for ArcGIS ("Reality capture" at scale) ArcGIS GeoBIM coming out in the fall  Link features to BIM documents Velocity Real time data/IoT Cloud Data Warehouses Pro  Pantone colors fo...

News: A "New" Ocean FAA Recreation test Topic: A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains  Events :  NCGE : Nov 19-21, Minneapolis

News: China puts a rover on Mars -  GAO report on DOD navigation Apple WWDC location announcements Video - Maps update Video - Object capture API (aka photogrammetry)  Amazon Location Service now generally available for AWS -  AWS startup Accelerator includes geospatial -  Lego (official) map

News: Google IO google maps Topic: This week we talk about how we can consider and infer geographic concepts through 2D and 3D representations  Events: Earth Archive Virtual Conferenc e: 15-16 June Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021 : September 7-9 Las Vegas NV  

News: Moving a border Rand McNally releases new Road Atlas Ookla and MapBox partnership Maptitude 2021 released Props to the Mars Helicopter! New SWOT satellite launching in 2022 to measure Earth's water   Topic: Deepfakes UW news Article 2018 article GCN article