GRASS GIS probably doesn’t get the attention it deserves
GRASS GIS is one of the few vector topology engines out there, it can handle volumetric raster data ( Voxels), 3d vector data, works in a variety of ecosystems, GRASS functionality is accessible via a...
25 Nov 202042min
Machine learning and object detection for the rest of us
Train your own AI to detect objects and patterns on satellite and aerial imagery. This might just change the way you think about WMS services ;) 500 free credits! https://picterra.ch/mapscaping/ ...
19 Nov 202042min
Raster Frames - making imagery a first class citizen
RasterFrames brings together Earth-observation (EO) data access, cloud computing, and DataFrame-based data science. The recent explosion of EO data from public and private satellite operators presents...
12 Nov 202039min
GIS education and training, online and in-person
This episode explores GIS education online and offline with Don Boyes, professor at the University of Toronto and online educator on the Coursera platform https://www.linkedin.com/in/donboyes/ Spons...
5 Nov 202045min
Cloud Detection- an open problem
Cloud detection is hard and it's an open problem. If too much water vapor gets in the way of earth imaging sensors and we can't see the surface of the earth they lose some of their value. We need to b...
28 Okt 202034min
A Business Built On Open Source GIS
An open and honest conversation about building a business based on open source GIS, the complexities of working with open-source software, what a business model might look like, and why this is a sust...
21 Okt 202042min
location Privacy and Data Ethics
The promise of data collection is that if we contribute our data, organizations can use that information to make things better for us. The Tension here is that this is not always the case, sometimes w...
14 Okt 202030min
Communicating with maps - The art of cartography
A map is a simple communication device and if we can state something simply it means that we really understand it. John Nelson, a cartographic wizard at ESRI offers some really interesting perspective...
1 Okt 202042min
