A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 673
29 August 2021

Resilience in our technology and systems

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News:

• Greek Scientists want to name heat waves
• National Geographic and DeBeers partner on Okavango Eternal project 
• NASA debuts new interactive website for Landsat 9 ahead of launch 
• Next 3 GPS III satellites complete (sv06, 07, 08)
• Space Force’s Main Job – Protecting GPS

Topic:

• A quick discussion on the need for resilience in our technology and systems as highlighted by some recent issues.

Events: 

• URISA’s LEAP conference: Feb 1-3, Virtual
• AAG: Feb 25- March 1, in-person & virtual

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 672
15 August 2021

Recreating landscapes – snapshots in time and space

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News:

• Trimble providing venture funding
• Haiti Earthquake
• Census redistricting data available now

Topic:

• Recreating landscapes – snapshots in time and space

Events: 

• UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 Oct, Grand Forks, ND

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 671
25 July 2021

This week we celebrate 16 years and a new PhD.

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This week we talk to Barb MacLennan about her recently defended dissertation with looks are Public Policy and Geography.

We also spend some time talking about the 16 years of VerySpatial.

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 670
18 July 2021

This week we discuss immersive new topics.

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News:

• Geospatial Revolution Part 5
• Hexagon acquires Immersal
• Autodesk Tandem
• Esri UC announcements
  • 90 new analytical features across Pro, Enterprise, Online
    • Heavy focus on AI/ML (GeoAI)
  • ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online
  • SURE for ArcGIS (“Reality capture” at scale)
  • ArcGIS GeoBIM coming out in the fall 
    • Link features to BIM documents
  • Velocity
    • Real time data/IoT
  • Cloud Data Warehouses
  • Pro 
    • Pantone colors for symbology
    • Online like pop-ups
  • Data Engineering (view)
    • Data preparation
    • Can visualize descriptive stats for each field in file
  • Online
    • Blending for symbology
    • Instant Apps

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 669
27 June 2021

This week we discuss various aspect of the global supply chain.

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News:

• A “New” Ocean
• FAA Recreation test

Topic:

• A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains 

Events: 

• NCGE: Nov 19-21, Minneapolis

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 668
13 June 2021

This week we catch up on some news.

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News:

• China puts a rover on Mars 
• GAO report on DOD navigation
• Apple WWDC location announcements
  • Video – Maps update
  • Video – Object capture API (aka photogrammetry) 
• Amazon Location Service now generally available for AWS
• AWS startup Accelerator includes geospatial
• Lego (official) map

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 667
23 May 2021

This week we talk about a recent article discussing geo deep fakes and detection.

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News:

• Google IO updates to Google Maps

Topic:

• This week we talk about how we can consider and infer geographic concepts through 2D and 3D representations 

Events:

• Earth Archive Virtual Conference: 15-16 June
• Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021: September 7-9, Las Vegas NV

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 666
9 May 2021

This week we talk about a recent article discussing geo deep fakes and detection.

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News:

• Moving a border
• Rand McNally releases new Road Atlas
• Ookla and MapBox partnership
• Maptitude 2021 released
• Props to the Mars Helicopter!
• New SWOT satellite launching in 2022 to measure Earth’s water

Topic:

• Deepfakes
  • UW news
  • Article
  • 2018 article
  • GCN article