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Podcast: Geospatial Concepts

Podcast episodes focused on overarching conceptions within geospatial

GEDI space lasers

GEDI stands for Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation .. so, No, I have not misspelled JEDI 
This episode is all about using space Lidar to make precise measurements of forest canopy height, canopy vertical structure with the goal of measuring the carbon …

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The Planetary Computer

The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs, a flexible scientific environment that allows users to answer global questions about that data, and app…

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The landsat Program

This is not a deep dive technical explanation of all things Landsat, it’s a brief overview of the Landsat mission, what it takes to launch a Landsat satellite, how the data get back to earth, and what it is used for.
 
There is also a brief discussion of…

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Labels Matter

Labels matter and if we are talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning then they matter a lot! but what is labeled data? how is it different from tagging, annotating, or segmentation? 
 
This podcast episode is an introdu…

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Where Does The Blue Dot Come From?

Calculating the location of your mobile device ( the blue dot ) is not as straightforward as you might imagine. It involves databases of wifi hotspots, 3D city models, IMU’s, GNSS, your proximity to cell towers, and maybe something called visual position…

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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. 
Joe Morrison on Twitter https://twitter.com/mouthof…

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Streamable Data And Geospatial Web Applications

More and more geospatial applications are moving from the desktop to the web browser and in order for this to make sense, we need to be able to stream data from a server to the client. But what is streamable data? what formats or protocols are streamable…

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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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