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Podcast: Earth Observation

Flood Monitoring From Space

Monitoring flooding from space is hard, even for a radar that can look through clouds and operate at night! Shay Strong from ICEYE walks us through some of the challenges around creating a reliable and predictable flood monitoring process and explains wh…

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Open Topography – Infrastructure for Topographic Data

OpenTopography provides community access to high-resolution, topography data, related tools, and resources … FOR FREE!
 

 

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LiDAR From Drones

Drone LiDAR might generate 2 -300 points per square meter but how do you filter it? why choose to collect LiDAR from drones instead of from the ground? what is are breaklines and how to ground truth drone LiDAR 
If you don’t know the answer to any or one…

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The Problem With Satellite Data Is …That It Is Not A Commodity

There has been so much talk about satellite data and what we can do with it lately that it feels like we should all be swimming in satellite data, the problem is that satellite data is not a commodity. 
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Urban Estimation, Earth Observation and Deep Learning

A case study using earth observation and AI to identify and classify buildings as part of a larger risk mapping exercise in Ho Chi Minh City.  Elizabeth Duffy also shares insights into the future relationship between earth observation and in situ measure…

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GDAL – Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

GDAL is a critical piece of geospatial infrastructure. GDAL is open-source software and is sometimes pronounced “goo-doll” (a bit like goo-gle), while others pronounce it “gee-doll,” and others pronounce it “gee-dall.”
In this episode, Paul Ramsey walks …

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Counting Animals Using Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery has been successfully used to detect and count a number of wildlife species in open landscapes and seascapes where target animals have a strong contrast with their environment. Tom McHugh, CEO, and Founder of The Icon Group has been wor…

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Super Resolution – smarter upsampling

Super Resolution – what it is, how it works, and the pro’s and con’s – Along the way, you will learn a little bit about computer vision in the earth observation domain 
 
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Introducing Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers for free to detect changes, map trends, and q…

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Introduction to Synthetic-aperture Radar (SAR)

Applications of SAR include topography, oceanography, glaciology, geology (for example, terrain discrimination and subsurface imaging), and forestry, including forest height, biomass, deforestation … the list is long.
But before you can do all that you…

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