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Virtual Worlds for Physical AI Systems
In this episode I’m joined by Apurva Shah, co-founder and CEO of Duality AI, a company building virtual worlds — or “world models” for robots and physical AI systems....
GPS, But 100 Times Stronger
My guest today is Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona, a company building the first commercial satellite navigation system. We get into why Tyler and his team are...
Turning Aerial Imagery Into a Searchable World
Vexcel isn’t a household name — but you’ve almost certainly used their data. This aerial imaging company flies low-elevation aircraft across roughly 45 countries, capturing imagery at 7.5cm resolution...
Cloud Native for the Rest of Us
What happens when you take cloud native geospatial out of the satellite-and-petabyte world and drop it into a small city with no budget and the world’s slowest internet connection?...
Mapping With 360 Cameras
Jeffrey Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a company building 360-degree camera systems designed specifically for mapping. He’s been obsessed with 360 imagery for over 20 years...
Who Pays for Open Source?
Open source software runs a huge chunk of the geospatial world — but somebody still has to pay for it. In this episode I sit down with Marco Bernasocchi,...
The Great Retooling
Ian Schuler is the CEO of Development Seed — the team behind a lot of the open source tooling that quietly holds up the geospatial world. He’s been at...
Earth Observation – The Invisible Industry
What is Earth observation, really — and why, after fifty years of satellite imagery, is it still not “mainstream”? In this episode, I’m joined by Aravind Ravichandran, founder of...
10 Tools for Telling Stories With Maps
Ryan Shields has one of the most interesting careers in geospatial — from remote sensing for conservation in the Caribbean, to disaster response data engineering with FEMA, to his...
Fields Of The World
Where does one field end and the next one begin? It sounds trivial right up until you try to answer it. In this episode, I’m joined by Hannah Kerner...