A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 703
13 November 2022

Our thoughts on “GIS and Society” as we approach the 30th anniversary of Friday Harbor meetings

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Topic:

• Thoughts on “GIS and Society”. As we approach the 30th anniversary of Friday Harbor meetings it seems like a great time to look back, and forward, on the work that the NCGIA and others began. 

Events: 

• Digital Geospatial Intelligence for National Security (DGI) Conference, February 27 – March 01, 2023, London UK
• Esri Developer Summit, March 7 – March 10 2023, Palm Springs CA
• GeoBuiz Summit, March 6 – March 8 2023, Monterey CA

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 701
16 October 2022

Catching up with Elvin

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Topic:

This week we sit down with Elvin Slavik, Director of Esri R&D Center, Australia, for our septicentennial episode catch-up and to talk about some general thoughts on technology, data, and life. 

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 700
02 October 2022

Back to school stuff

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News:

• Response to report on Ligado
• India pushing NaVIC
• Study shows climate change affecting world’s lakes
• Google Maps now includes efficient EV routes
• Google Maps now includes augmented reality results
• New US center of population
• Planet moving into hyperspectral
• New additions to Galileo
• FCC De-orbit rules

Events: 

• NEURISA Day is a conference hosted by New England URISA and will be held virtually on October 24 & 25, 2022.  The theme this year is Creating Community Connections, which aims to showcase how important it is for us as a geospatial community to connect and engage. More information can be found here https://neurisa-day-2022-urisa.hub.arcgis.com/ 

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 699
05 September 2022

Back to school stuff

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News:

• Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan passes away
• FTC Sues data broker for tracking location information
• Newly published research shows Arctic lakes are drying up
• Hydrosat gets Tier 1 remote sensing license for thermal imaging
• Esri Small Nonprofit Organization Grant Initiative
• Geospatial Revolution: Mapping the Pandemic nominated for regional Mid-Atlantic Emmy 

Topic:

• Geospatial Metaverse 
  • NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH – AI, Metaverse, and Digital Humans

Events: 

• Earth Science Week, October 9th – 15th
• International Geoethics Day, October 13th, 2022
• Geography Awareness Week, November 14-19th, 2022
• GIS Day, November 16th, 2022

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 698
21 August 2022

Back to school stuff

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News:

• Landsat 9 hand-off
• Google fined in Australia 
• New USGS Director sworn in 
• Artemis 1 going to the moon on Aug. 29th 

Topic:

1. Geographic content for back to school season

Events:

• ICPARS2022 International Conference on Precision Agriculture and Remote Sensing: 20-21 September, Toronto CA
• RGS-IBG2022: 30 August to 2 September, Newcastle UK and online

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 697
7 August 2022

Catching up on some news

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News:

• OSM turns 18
• New Google Maps Functionality
• Critical Flaws in Chinese GPS Chip – US Government advises to stop using
• Xiaomi previews consumer-targeted smart glasses
• Storm chaser drones gathering data during hurricane season
• Rhine way lower than it should be (and way earlier than normal)
• UKHO Admiralty Maritime sunsetting paper charts after 222 years.
• SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with South Korea’s first Moon mission

Events: 

• ICMSEGARS2022: 09-10 December, New York

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 696
24 July 2022

Landsat’s 50th and our 17th

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Topic: A look back at Landsat’s 50 years on our 17th anniversary episode.

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 695
17 July 2022

4D? Are we really there?

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News:

• Esri UC – personal favorites
• FCC Proposes new definition for broadband
• OGC joins metaverse standards group
• FTC will address exploitation of location and health data
• First images from James Webb Space Telescope

Topic:

• This week Jesse asks questions about time in geospatial

Events: 

• Geography2050: 17-18 November, New York 
• GeoWeek 2023: 13-15 February, Denver
• AAG 2023: 23-27 March, Denver

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 694
4 July 2022

a discussion on how “modern” and “traditional” GIS are discussed in our classes

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News:

• Winners of the 2022 ArcGIS Online Competition for HS and MS students
• ArcGIS Pro 3.0 requires .net 6
  • Ed license now includes Drone2Map Standard
• QGIS 3.26
  • Smarty geocoding plug-in 
• Drone data on demand service
• Projection trading cards

Topic:

• This week we discuss how “modern” and “traditional” GIS are discussed in our classes. this was prompted by the post:
  Web GIS is Modern GIS? – teaching GIS as web-based – where are we, what are positives/negatives, etc.

Events: 

• geocom: 11 October, London

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 693
19 June 2022

An all news episode

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News:

• Xona testing GPS alternative demo satellite
• UK looking at PNT options
• Google’s “Dynamic World” app
• Google Maps add Air Quality Index on iOS and Android
• Apple Maps expanding
• Airbus expanding data access through OneAtlas
• GeoTech Center updating GTCM, get involved
  • Tier 3 survey page
  • Tier 4 survey page
• BRICS countries developing data sharing satellite system