A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 665
18 April 2021

What we learned (or remembered) this week

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News:

• Geospatial Revolution Episode 5 trailer
• Cesium for Unreal
• Verizon RTK
• Carbon Mapper
• Google Earth releases upgraded Timelapse with Landsat imagery

Topic:

• EarthDay everyday

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 664
4 April 2021

What we learned (or remembered) this week

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References for this week’s episode:

• Mapping vaccine distribution (from January)
• Prospect & Refuge
• FAA updates
• Mars helicopter
• Blades in the Dark
  • Roleplay Geeks Podcast
• Evergreen stuck in the Suez

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 662
7 March 2021

Anthony Calamito of Enview

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News:

• Potential changes to Metropolitan Statistical Areas
• Congressional push for timing backup for GIS
• Cardillo appointed as USGIF chair

Topic:

• This week we talk to Anthony Calamito of Enview about AI and 3D point cloud data.

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 661
28 February 2021

Space news and stuff

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News:

• Perseverance!
• India launches Amazonia 1 satellite for Brazil
• Canon built a smallsat for advertising (and research) 
• Atlas of the Human Planet
• iOS beta gets crowdsourced info
• QGIS 3,18 released
• ArcGIS platform
• GeoWeek 2022 Advisory board
• Next step in (counter)Ligado stuff

Cool stuff:

• http://radio.garden/

Events corner

• NCGIS 2021 presentations up on YouTube soon
• ASPRS 2021: March 29-April 2, virtual 
• GISPro 2021: 3-6 Oct, Baltimore, Abstracts due March 31

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 660
7 February 2021

News and discussing visual media

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News:

• New NOAA Drought website
• New Sentinel-based long-term global fire dataset
• Tilt brush going open
• Microsoft releases Sustainability City in Minecraft
• Amnesty International will create maps of facial recognition cameras
• GISCI Map Contest

Topic:

• Discussing/talking about how to talk about visual media

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 659
24 January 2021

Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective

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News:

• Saudi Arabia proposes linear city
• HERE launches Premier 3D Cities
• Esri Canada’s 3D cities model resources
• Final Fantasy XV director teams up with Japanese airline for virtual tourism
• Successful launch and deployment for NASA’s ELaNa mission CubeSats
• SpaceX Transporter-1

Topic:

• Virtual Reality development questions from a geospatial perspective  

Events corner

• HXGNLive June 15-18 Las Vegas, limited to 1500
• ACH2021: July 22-23, Abstracts due by Feb 1
• GISPro 2021 Oct 3-6 Baltimore, MD

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 658
10 January 2021

This week we catch up on news

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News:

• EU announces Destination Earth
• FAA announces RemoteID plans
• USGIF academic consortium
• URISA Coalition of Young Professionals
• Esri Hub for Imagery and Remote Sensing
• javascript

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 657
27 December 2020

This week we discuss the term “reality capture” and how it connects to geospatial.

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News:

• MapBox moves to 3D and changes license
• Australian venture pushes toward lunar exploration 
• Digital Coast Act signed into law

Topic:

• Reality capture?
  • Terrestrial lidar
  • Drone photogrammetry 
  • Reality capture in our/your pocket
  • Scale shift?

Events:

• GeoBusiness 2021 moved to November