Spatial Signals
Spatial Signals is a podcast about remote sensing, GIS, and geospatial technologies - but more importantly it’s a podcast about the people who use and apply them. This podcast is sponsored by AmericaView, the national remote sensing network dedicated to empowering Earth Observation. Your hosts are Dr. Bradley Shellito from Youngstown State University and Mr. Chris McGinty, the Executive Director of AmericaView. New episodes every Monday morning.
The First Digital Global Map with Bobbi Lenczowski
Bobbi Lenczowski, formerly of the National Geospatial-lntelligence Agency (NGA), joins us for a discussion of the highlights of her all-star career with her time at the Defense Mapping Agency, gathering early map data and the progression of geospatial technology, data classification and data management techniques, development of the first digital global digital map made from scanning paper maps, Bobbi’s time as Executive Director of AmericaView, her service with ASPRS, as well as her involvement with multiple geospatial initiatives in the St. Louis area, including NGA, GeoFutures, and drone training for high school students. Show notes are available at: http...
Collecting Leaf-Level Data with Donna Delparte
Donna Delparte from Idaho State University joins us to talk about the circuitous route that took her from Regina, Canada through many different locales to finally end up in Pocatello, Idaho. We also talk about hazard mapping for back country skiing, underwater GIS and remote sensing, using drones for precision agriculture for detecting Potato virus Y, using drone-based lidar for mapping slope susceptibility related to landslides, workshops at the Craters of the Moon, and monitoring golden eagle nesting activity. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
Creating Maps One Line At a Time with Tracy DeLiberty
Tracy DeLiberty from the University of Delaware joins us to talk about remote sensing of deserts and arid lands, the good old days of X-terms and command-line GIS, teaching high school students with remotely sensed imagery, analyzing irrigation across Delaware, studying sea ice thickness at the north and south poles and much more. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
They Found All The Dinosaurs Already with Courtney Poirier Chicola
Courtney Poirier Chicola from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette joins us for a discussion that begins with Jurassic Park, 4-H, and her dashed dreams of being a paleontologist, and then delves into Earth As Art, teaching through art, Pecora 2022, the Rising Waters workshop, NASA Aerokats, teaching Python and GeoAI in ArcGIS, and the evolution of image classification methods and accuracy issues. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
The PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeely
Robin McNeely from Iowa State University joins us for a discussion that begins with a blast from the past about AutoCAD, PC Arc/Info, UNIX, Sun Stations, and digitizing tables, and then delves into building a land cover dataset for Iowa, landscape ecology, Robin’s family connection with the Army Corps of Engineers, nutrient management, analyzing agriculture impacts with imagery, and teacher training workshops. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
We Need An Earth Observation Day with Rebecca Dodge
Rebecca Dodge from Midwestern State University joins us for a discussion about geology, ERTS (later known as Landsat 1), photographs from Skylab, working in the oil industry, Rebecca's extensive work with AmericaView including her time as its Executive Director, Texas As Art, remote sensing at the El Paso Science Festival, and the development of Earth Observation Day. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
Geospatial First Responders with Rodney Yantis
Rodney Yantis from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette joins us to talk about majoring in landscape ecology, Earth As Art, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters, geospatial first responders, the role of remote sensing in hurricane preparedness and monitoring, support for the Louisiana Army National Guard programs, the Rising Water workshop program, and planning for colonies on the moon. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
An Open Source Human Being with Lindi Quackenbush
Lindi Quackenbush from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins us for a an academic adventure that begins in Melbourne, Australia, continues on to Maine, and then ends up in New York. We also talk about AML, land surveying, feature extraction, the power and importance of a national network of scholars and researchers like AmericaView, Lindi’s time as a director of the AmericaView board as well as her academic leadership and research at SUNY ESF. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
Push a Button and Map All the Sagebrush in Utah with Doug Ramsey
Doug Ramsey from Utah State University joins us to talk about rangeland ecology, field work and understanding the dynamics on the ground when doing remote sensing, the Southwest Gap Analysis project, and extracting land cover maps from Landsat imagery. Show notes are available are: https://americaview.substack.com
Where the Ocean Is On The Correct Side of the Planet with Russ Congalton
Russ Congalton from the University of New Hampshire joins us to talk about wanting to go into space, taking Organic Chemistry just for fun, teaching at Berkeley, working with the GLOBE program, remote sensing accuracy assessment, studying cyanobacteria in New Hampshire lakes and ponds, being the recipient of the William T. Pecora award, and much more. Show notes are available are: https://americaview.substack.com
A Smartphone With Wings and a Propeller with John McGee
John McGee from Virginia Tech University joins us for a discussion that starts off at a river with crocodiles and a solar powered GIS lab in Zambia, then continues on to finding drones in the grocery store then again at a gas station, UAS analysis today, precision agriculture and geospatial technology, the Landsat program, and the impact of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on drones and education today. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
AI As a Research Assistant with Aaron Maxwell
Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University joins us to talk about mining reclamation, large scale land cover changes, open source spatial analytics, data wrangling, learning programming, the benefits of ChatGPT for coding and troubleshooting, AI being a helpful research assistant, and a whole lot more. Show notes for this episode are available at: https://americaview.substack.com
The Secret Origin of AmericaView
This first episode of Spatial Signals looks at the origin of the AmericaView consortium - how the OhioView consortium started in the state of Ohio and then evolved into the national AmericaView program. Our guests for this origin story are Kevin Czajkowski from OhioView and Mary O'Neill from SouthDakotaView. Show notes for this first episode are available at: https://americaview.substack.com/.
