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2025
2024
How Bloomberg's Data Scientists use Satellite Images for Reporting: Krishna Karra - MBM78
How Ex-Vox Video Producer Phil Edwards thinks about Maps to tell stories - MBM77
What Hyperspectral constellations have to offer: Pixxel’s example - Awais Ahmed #MBM76
The Ex-Uber Data Scientist Who wants to simplify Data Science with Serverless Computing: Sina Kashuk
Meet the man trying to build a 20cm 3D map of the world: Andrew Peterson - #MBM74
Jamie McMichael-Phillips: How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030 - #MBM73- [Bonus] Books, Tech & Life: A Long conversation with Jed Sundwall
Jean-Martin Bauer: How the World Food Program tackles Hunger - #MBM72
Ashlee Vance: The Man telling us the Stories of the New Space Industry - #MBM71
Luke Fischer: Who would want to start a Satellite Image Marketplace? SkyFi - #MBM70
Ben Strong: We have Foundation Models of Earth, now What? Earth Index - MBM#69
Ib Green: Browser based visualisation rendering - MBM#68
What does a Foundational Model of Earth look like? Clay Foundation: Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño - MBM#67
How to Map Mars (to Land Rovers) - Fred Calef III - MBM#66
Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt - MBM#65
Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet, Building the Simplest Mapping Library & Life in Ukraine
Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63
Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level - MBM#62
Gilberto Camara - Brazil's Fight Against Deforestation; Politics & Open Data - MBM#61
Thomas Ager: The Essentials of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) - MBM#60
Brian McClendon: The Story of Google Maps, Pokemon Go & Keyhole - MBM#59
Ariel Seidman - Taking on Google Maps, Crowdsourced mapping & Crypto - MBM#58
2023
Best of 2023: 12 Conversations About Maps, Satellite Images & Tech - MBM#57
Jason Boone: Animating Maps for a Living, Working with Johnny Harris & Joining a Tech Startup - #MBM56
Javier de la Torre: From Biologist to Entrepreneur, How Maps Help Preserve Biodiversity & Hosting Conferences - MBM#55
Hongwei Liu: What It Takes to Actually Map the Indoors, Hard Work & Finding the Right Things to Work on - MBM#54
Sean Gorman: Startups, Coding Isn't for Everyone, Finding What (& with whom) to work on - MBM#53
Harold Goddijn: The Full Story of TomTom, Selling Millions of Devices, the impact of the iPhone & mapping today - MBM#52
James Killick: Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - MBM#51- Patreon Exclusive: Reflecting on 50 episodes of MBM
Aravind Ravichandran: From Images to Actions: An Introduction to Earth Observation - MBM#50
Steve Brumby: Governments Need Better Maps, Impact Observatory, Descartes Labs & National Geographic - MBM#49
Robert Cheetham & Dan Pilone: Building Businesses that Last, Bootstrapping & Acquisitions - MBM#48
Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases & Health - MBM#47
Can Duruk: Felt, Making Maps Fun & Collaborative - MBM#46
Zhuang-Fang Nana Yi: Satellite Imagery to Solve Local Problems - MBM#45
Jed Sundwall: Making Open Data Actually Accessible (in a world with ChatGPT) - MBM#44
Marc Prioleau: The Overture Maps Foundation: Do We Need a New Open Mapping Project? - MBM#43
Grega Milčinski: The Story of Sentinel Hub, EO Browser & Sinergise: Making Free & Open Satellite Imagery Actually Accessible - MBM#42
Mila Luleva: Why Would a Bank Care About Satellite Images? (Spoiler: It's Carbon Credits) - MBM#41
Renny Babiarz: Exposing China's Nuclear Testing - MBM#40
Kuo-Yu 'Slayer' Chuang: Leveraging Taiwan's Unique Infrastructure to Support Disaster Response - MBM#39
Benjamin Grant: Generating Awe and Using Satellite Images to Inspire Millions - MBM#38
Iain Woodhouse: Understanding Radar Satellite Images - MBM#37
2022 Recap: Best Moments From Conversations this Year - MBM#36
2022
Andrew Blum: Understanding How We Predict the Weather - MBM#35
Hamed Alemohammad: Open Machine Learning for Satellite Imagery - MBM#34
Mo Islam: The Space Industry is Changing, So Is How It's Reported On - MBM #33
Daniel O'Donohue (#2): Building Mapscaping: the Biggest Geospatial Podcast, Finding What to Do in Life & Mentorship - MBM #32
Joshua Stevens - Visualising NASA's Satellite Imagery - MBM #31
Steve Coast: Discussing the Future of Maps & Tech with the Founder of OpenStreetMap (& why he thinks maps will disappear) - MBM #30
Muthu Kumar & Aleksander Buczkowski: Building an Independent Media over the long term: Geoawesomeness - MBM #29
Kevin Pomfret: Ethics Isn't Enough & The Case For Geospatial Law - MBM #28
Jeffrey Lewis: The Work of an Open Source Intelligence Researcher: Keeping Goverments Accountable - MBM #27
Jean-Martin Bauer: How Data Enables the World Food Program to Effectively Feed a Country - MBM #26
Indra Den Bakker - Overstory & Tackling Climate by Monitoring Vegetation with Satellite Data - MBM #25
Catherine Nakalembe - Food in Stores Isn't Enough: Food Security in Africa - MBM #24
Emily Darling & Kim Fisher - The Challenges of Mapping Coral Reefs When Satellites Can't See Them - #MBM 23
Arjen Vrielink - Getting to Zero Deforestation with Satellite Images - MBM #22
Barbara Ryan - How Landsat Became Free & Open - MBM #21- Ep 20 - Jonathan Lacoste - From Founder to Investor in the Space Industry, Making Space Un-Sexy & Building in Public
Ep 19 - Jeff Crusey - Basics of Venture Capital Investing in Earth Observation, Weighing Risk & The Difference between Data & Analytics Companies
1 Year of Podcasting
Ep 18 - Jakub Dziwisz - Orbify, No Code Earth Observation & Saas-like Business Models
Ep 17 - Jacopo Margutti - Red Cross, Humanitarian Data Science & Moving from Physical to Digital Aid
Ep 16 - Dan Pilone - Element84, Large Scale Computing, Enabling Open Data & People Focused Growth
Ep 15 - April Speight - Spatial Computing at Microsoft, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Fashion & Branding
Ep 14 - Beth Tellman - Cloud2Street, Open Science within a For-Profit Company & The Role of Insurance in Actionable Flood Analytics
Ep 13 - Keith Masback - Angel Investing, Geospatial Intelligence & Leadership
Ep 12 - Tyler Erickson - Google Earth Engine, Curiosity & Working With and For a Community
2021
Ep 11 - Dan Hammer - Global Forest Watch, Design & Story Telling
Ep 10 - Charles Blanchet - Finding focus, Building a scalable product & Dedicating time to thinking
Ep 9 - Chinmay Adhvaryu - Founding and closing Earth Observations companies, Solving a problem people care about, and Bringing Context
Ep 8 - Joe Morrison - Selling Satellite Imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar & Making Predictions in Public- Ep 7 - Bruno Sánchez - Microsoft's Planetary Computer, Education & Impact Science
- Ep 6 - Nadine Alameh - Standards, Dance & Geo Data Accessibility
- Ep 5 - Daniel O'Donohue - Being a voice online
- Ep 4 - Aravind Ravichandran - Earth Observation markets & value propositions
- Ep 3 - Denise McKenzie - Location data ethics
- Ep 2 - Will Cadell - Geospatial Consulting
- Ep 1 - Ian Schuler - Building an impact driven geospatial company
- Ep 0 - Initializing Experiment...