A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 686
6 March 2022

This week we talk about various news and the invasion of Ukraine.

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News:

• Mobile World Congress
• 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

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 685
20 February 2022

This week we talk to Isaac Brodsky of Foursquare about the recent release of Hex Tiles.

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News:

• SpaceX loses several satellites 
• Koalas are an endangered species in parts of Australia 
• GISCI announces June exam date

Topic:

• Isaac Brodsky of Foursquare talks about Hex Tiles and how they can be used for geospatial analysis.
• Try it out at studio.unfolded.ai

Events: 

• GeoIgnite 22: 1-3 March, virtual
• Citizen Science Conference, 23-26 May, hybrid

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 684
6 February 2022

This week we discuss some ideas around this round of the Metaverse.

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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:

• Jesse asks a few questions about this round of the Metaverse about where it we think it will go this time, ideas from previous rounds that we would like to see again

Events: 

• GISPro call due March 15
• Trimble Dimensions+: Nov 7-9, Las Vegas

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 683
23 January 2022

This week we talk to Dr. Alastair Bonnett about islands, diversity, and his recent books.

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News:

• Sentinel 1B issues
• Tonga eruption
• 2021 was 6th warmest year
• 44 superdove satellites launched
• ArcGIS IPS
• GISP-R
• 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 Business 2022

Spatial Conversations
Shownotes – Episode 27
21 January 2022

Barb and Frank speak with Nicole Ernst about the Geospatial Education Certificate

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

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 682
09 January 2022

This week we talk to Dr. Rebecca Theobald about redistricting.

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News:

• CES2022 overview

Topic:

• Frank and Barb sit down with Dr. 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