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Spatial Signals

A Earth Sciences , Science and Education podcast

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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.

Newest episodes

GeoAI - The Squared Circle, Round Six

52 min

This is Round Six of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Dr. Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University, Dr. JB Sharma from the University of West Georgia, and Dr. Qiusheng Wu from the University of Tennessee and we’re discussing all things about GeoAI today. We talk about applying AI to image classification in a variety of applications, computer vision approaches to AI, GEOBIA, open source Python packages for GeoAI, image segmentation for water imagery, training models with a text prompt, deep learning, Google Earth Engine, AI instruction and applications in the classroom, lowering the barrier to using GeoAI, the accuracy of the products generated by AI, the impact of AI on geospatial science and reproducibility, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

To Better Use Earth Observations To Benefit Society with Tim Stryker

41 min

Tim Stryker from Hudson Passage, LLC joins us to talk about the Presidential Management Fellows Program, Tim’s time being a guide for a traveling exhibit in the former Soviet Union, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the US Group on Earth Observations, Tim’s time at the USGS, connections with international remote sensing programs, NOAA and international coordination of weather satellites, remote sensing ground stations across the planet, the impact of Landsat, public data and imagery and its multiple applications, Tim’s consultancy Hudson Passage LLC, and much more. Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The View From Above with Tim Warner

42 min

Tim Warner from West Virginia University joins us to talk about enjoying the view from above as a kid, a career-defining course in photogeology and remote sensing, Spectral Africa, studying patterns in aeolian sand, a chance meeting on an airplane that changed the direction of Tim’s life, traveling by canoe, geological mapping with remote sensing and GIS, the origin of WestVirginiaView as the second StateView program, developing a statewide consortium, Tim’s time as an editor for multiple journals, hiking in the Italian Alps, advice for new geospatial professionals, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

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GeoAI - The Squared Circle, Round Six

52 min

This is Round Six of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Dr. Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University, Dr. JB Sharma from the University of West Georgia, and Dr. Qiusheng Wu from the University of Tennessee and we’re discussing all things about GeoAI today. We talk about applying AI to image classification in a variety of applications, computer vision approaches to AI, GEOBIA, open source Python packages for GeoAI, image segmentation for water imagery, training models with a text prompt, deep learning, Google Earth Engine, AI instruction and applications in the classroom, lowering the barrier to using GeoAI, the accuracy of the products generated by AI, the impact of AI on geospatial science and reproducibility, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

To Better Use Earth Observations To Benefit Society with Tim Stryker

41 min

Tim Stryker from Hudson Passage, LLC joins us to talk about the Presidential Management Fellows Program, Tim’s time being a guide for a traveling exhibit in the former Soviet Union, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the US Group on Earth Observations, Tim’s time at the USGS, connections with international remote sensing programs, NOAA and international coordination of weather satellites, remote sensing ground stations across the planet, the impact of Landsat, public data and imagery and its multiple applications, Tim’s consultancy Hudson Passage LLC, and much more. Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The View From Above with Tim Warner

42 min

Tim Warner from West Virginia University joins us to talk about enjoying the view from above as a kid, a career-defining course in photogeology and remote sensing, Spectral Africa, studying patterns in aeolian sand, a chance meeting on an airplane that changed the direction of Tim’s life, traveling by canoe, geological mapping with remote sensing and GIS, the origin of WestVirginiaView as the second StateView program, developing a statewide consortium, Tim’s time as an editor for multiple journals, hiking in the Italian Alps, advice for new geospatial professionals, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Every Pixel Has A Story with Peder Nelson

44 min

Peder Nelson from Oregon State University joins us to talk about his father's time working at EROS in Sioux Falls, Landsat as Peder’s other sibling, simulating with cameras what digital Landsat images would be like, being part of a tech migrant family, graffiti from space, the development of digital sensors, stewarding data to make it useful, planning for the future of remote sensing, people’s first light to connect with remote sensing, the GLOBE program, the GLOBE Observer App, a need to collaboratively continue remote sensing and data into the future, and much, much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Drone Rangers with Tracy Shane

41 min

Tracy Shane from the University of Nevada-Reno joins us to talk about her backpacking trips with her grandmother as a kid, learning to read topo maps at age seven, the Nevada Youth Range Camp, Tracy’s time as a Student Conservation Employment Program (SCEP) student, the Society for Range Management, the Drone Rangers, a drone named Betty White, working with drones in outreach and a 4-H program, range management, the use of virtual fencing in ranching, the scale of the Great Basin, hyperspectral analysis with drones for biomass estimation, and pairing drone data with NAIP imagery.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Whole World Was Flat with Yuting Zhou

34 min

Yuting Zhou from Oklahoma State University joins us to talk about a long trip where flat land turned into mountains, tools for understanding landscape changes, studying ecology and agriculture applications, Yuting’s journey from China to Oklahoma, OklahomaView and the national network of AmericaView, the climate and agriculture of Oklahoma, studying agriculture at different scales, UAS filling the gap between satellite data and in situ measurements, invasive species detection with UAS, Red Cedar mapping, GIS Day in Oklahoma, flash drought analysis, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Married Into Remote Sensing with Jan Eitel

38 min

Jan Eitel from the University of Idaho joins us to talk about going from plot scale to landscape scale, the McCall Outdoor Science School, introducing K-12 students to lidar measurements, STELLA, teaching outdoors and winter research, IdahoView, engaging students in data collection, point dendrometers, a Tree EKG, NISAR imagery and analyzing plant water status, data fusion, AI and extracting meaningful information regarding forest growth and forest health, the response of forest ecosystems to hotter and dryer conditions, lidar and forest management, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

From The Family Business with Paige Williams

35 min

Paige Williams from Virginia Commonwealth University joins us to talk about traveling to the Esri conference in San Diego with her mom while in high school, being inspired by Will.i.am, working in software distribution, maxing out on GIS classes, collecting data and mapping as part of a water study team in Burkina Fasa, flying drones in research at NASA Goddard, forestry analysis at spatial and temporal scales, and Paige’s work at VCU, a student-driven drone class, teacher training with UAS, hands-on learning, working with STELLA and using STELLA on a drone, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The iPhonification of Data Storage with John Millard

48 min

John Millard from Miami University joins us to talk about the career of Keanu Reeves, becoming a librarian from a business program, technology based jobs for librarians, Dad Lore, Mosaic, building your own digital library of information, a collaboration that would become OhioView, licensing of Landsat data, the cost of data storage, OhioLink and the process of satellite imagery transfer, technology training for librarians, metadata, data storage, the first file cabinet, how AI is changing the game, AI deriving meaning out of disparate data, award winning chili recipes, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Thing That Happened Was Landsat with Mary O'Neill

41 min

Mary O’Neill from South Dakota State University joins us to talk about a work study job in the plant science department, the Remote Sensing Institute (RSI) at SDSU, remote sensing from a retrofitted WW2 aircraft, SADE (Signal Analysis and Dissemination Equipment), watching the first scenes from ERTS / Landsat 1 come off the printer, Mary’s participation at the start of AmericaView and her time with the consortium, the establishment of a Geospatial Science Center of Excellence, workshops for K-12 teachers, why EROS was established where it was, Mary’s second retirement, SouthDakotaView, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

That Data Layer Sandwich with Mike Taylor

36 min

Mike Taylor from NASA’s Landsat Project Science Support Team joins us to talk about job fields merging computers and the outdoors, a life-changing 14-day geography field study course, the work of the Landsat Science Team, continuity of Landsat imagery, levels of imagery resolution, the development of STELLA, applications of STELLA in relation to satellite imagery, approachable and affordable STELLA instrumentation and technology, the democratization of instrumentation, the Landsat 9 launch, geocaching at Lompoc to tell the story of Virginia Norwood, EarthLens, and much more.   Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Payment For Ecosystem Services with Mary Schorse

37 min

Mary Schorse from the University of Delaware joins us to talk about her background in education and how it connects with geospatial technologies, the expansion of geospatial technologies into a multitude of fields, the Delaware Center for Geographic Education (DCGE), inserting GIS and remote sensing into K-12 lessons, Mary’s collaborations with Tracy DeLiberty, Mary’s work with environmental impact assessment in Trinidad, payment for ecosystem services and applications and issues of scale with that, inserting geospatial technology tools into instructor resources, summer education outreach programs for students, the challenges of working with K-12 students and teachers, dual enrollment courses, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Map Layouts and Band Combinations with Parinaz Rahimzadeh

37 min

Parinaz Rahimzadeh from the University of Maine joins us to talk about finding GIS and remote sensing on her first day of university, creating map layouts and band combinations, Parinaz earning her doctorate in Japan, and the birth of MaineView, forest health, detecting the severity of pathogen-induced damage on the landscape, forest susceptibility, applied research with GIS and remote sensing, pest monitoring, defoliation detection, the abundance of forests in Maine, worksforce training for GIS and remote sensing forest health monitoring, creating products for decision making, and much more. Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Teaching GIS - The Squared Circle, Round Five

58 min

This is Round Five of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Ms. Robbyn Abbitt from Miami University, Dr. Forrest Bowlick from University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Dr. Courtney Poirier Chicola from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and we’re discussing all things about teaching GIS today. We talk about approaches to teaching GIS, mixing fundamentals and application, students working on local projects, producing tangible products, incorporating topoquads and remote sensing, students taking on different roles in projects, relevancy of tasks, incorporating maps from current events, the challenges of online GIS courses, showing why things are happening, collaboration on GIS problems, fundamental changes in what’s been taught in GIS courses, data handling challenges, GeoAI, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Breaking The Law of Gravity with Jason Lorenzon

41 min

Jason Lorenzon from Kent State University joins us to talk about his wanting to be a pilot from an early age, sneaking to the Windsor airport to get a private pilot license, Jason's training as a concert pianist, teaching aviation law, leading the UAS program at Kent State, training both manned and unmanned aircraft pilots, the NTSB and the definition of an aircraft, the 100th anniversary of the Air Commerce Act of 1926, Bessie Coleman and barnstormers, aircraft regulations, the tiny percentage of people who have actually touched aircraft controls, never losing the awe of flying after takeoff, the intersection of aviation and geospatial technologies, a dynamic Earth, the development of laws related to UAS, the usage of drones by first responders, air taxis, collaboration and cooperation with aviation and remote sensing, national airspace and geospatial technology, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Russ and Kass' Excellent Adventure with Russ Congalton and Kass Green

39 min

Russ Congalton from the University of New Hampshire and Kass Green from Kass Green and Associates return to talk about how they briefly met a first time, a second meeting at the first national GIS conference, Russ’ heading up the next GIS conference in San Francisco, Russ working with Kass on mapping old growth forest with Landsat imagery, the partnership of practical ideas and new technologies, the critical importance of quantitative accuracy assessment, the impact of Chernobyl on remote sensing, co-authoring two books, CART analysis, Cluster Magic, both Russ and Kass’ serving as ASPRS Presidents, an attempt to hire Robin Williams to entertain at a banquet, both Russ and Kass being recipients of the William T. Pecora award, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at: https://americaview.substack.com/. 

The Author Is Always The Last One To Know with Aaron Maxwell

42 min

Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University returns to talk about his first book in supervised learning being publishing, where the book’s concept came from, Aaron’s co-authors, the whole writing process behind the book, designing figures and graphs, visual design, how Aaron learned about the book’s release, the storytelling of science, the supervised learning process being more spatial, advice for future authors, having passion for the topic, the development of a companion e-book, R, the tinymodels framework, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at: https://americaview.substack.com/. 

No Escape From Geology with Umesh Haritashya

42 min

Umesh Haritashya from the University of Dayton joins us to talk about trying to major in zoology and ending up in geology instead, then trying to get into petroleum and ending up in remote sensing instead, ASTER data evaluation and the Global Land Ice Measurement from Space project, glacier datasets that paved the way for modern geospatial studies of the cryosphere, research in Nepal, the long trek to Lake Imja, the advantages of learning through field work, studying changes to glaciers in relation to climate, the impact of glaciers on freshwater resources, the effects of melting glaciers, using DEMs and field measurements for measuring glacial changes, scenario modeling of lake outburst floods, machine learning applications, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Surrounded By Maps with Morgan Crowley

40 min

Morgan Crowley from the Great Lakes Forestry Centre joins us to talk about growing up with maps and aerial images, Russ Congalton’s mentorship of Morgan at the University of New Hampshire, Ladies of Landsat, WildFireSat, fire monitoring, Canadian wildfires, Morgan’s co-editing a book on Google Earth Engine, deep learning models, trusting data, using remote sensing data for fire management and monitoring, science outreach, knowledge exchange, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Sagebrush and Locust Habitats with Ramesh Sivanpillai

32 min

Ramesh Sivanpillai from the University of Wyoming joins us to talk about his taking a mandatory remote sensing class for his physics degree, remote sensing data access, how Wyoming and Kazakhstan look striking similar, the 25th anniversary of WyomingView, training the future workforce, students connecting satellite imagery to what’s on the ground, Congressional outreach, Ramesh’s time on the AmericaView Board of Directors, Ramesh’s work with disaster management as Project Manager for the International Charter, student involvement with disaster activations, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Connection Between Science and Art with Anita Simic-Milas

37 min

Anita Simic-Milas from Bowling Green State University joins us to talk about her encounter with GIS and Unix in her very last course as an undergraduate student, GRASS GIS software, developing net primary productivity maps, Anita’s time working at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), groundwater modeling with remote sensing, the development of SPLIT, the SPLIT summer programs and field data collection, OhioView, students learning from their peers, remote sensing connecting science and art, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Looking Down Is Looking Up with John McGee

31 min

John McGee from Virginia Tech University returns to talk about the state of the union about drones today, the advantages to data collection with drones as “data on demand,” the lack of cost-effective drone options for basic entry-level mapping drones, the importance of sensors in data collection, the drone cage at Virginia Tech, teacher trainings for drones and Part 107, data-driven decisions, multi-platform sensors, agricultural applications of remote sensing, real-time management with data collection, drone delivery of packages and people, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at: https://americaview.substack.com/. 

Science As A Way Of Thinking with Sarah Slack

34 min

Sarah Slack from Intermediate School (IS) 223 in Brooklyn, NY joins us to talk about termite flatulence, joining the New York City Teaching Fellows program, teaching science, changes to Earth’s climate, Sarah’s traveling to Antarctica with PolarTREC, being on an icebreaker at the onset of the Covid pandemic, GIS class on a boat while going through Drake Passage, Sarah’s experience as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, examining urban heat island effects, the Landsat Explorer app, the Climate Education Leadership Team, building pathways for students to enter the earth sciences as a career path, student engagement with collecting temperature and analyzing urban heat data, science as a way of thinking rather than just facts, applications of online remote sensing and GIS apps in the classroom, the Geospatial Semester at JMU, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Toledo Was Without Water For Three Days with Joseph Ortiz

35 min

Joseph Ortiz from Kent State University returns to talk about remote sensing of Mars, Joseph’s work with his collaborators on a National Geographic funded project at Vaal Dam in South Africa, water quantity issues in a semi-arid environment, a time when the region came within five days of running out of water, a water level drop of one to two stories, microcystis, water quality issues, renewable energy sources, boat problems at night with a lack of fuel and a shoal, measuring different types of algae with a multichannel fluorometer, Joseph working with students from Wits University, open source software for hyperspectral imagery analysis of South Africa, Whitebox tools for lidar analysis, MultiSpec, analyzing harmful algal blooms, the red edge bands from Sentinel, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at: https://americaview.substack.com/. 

I Never Heard of Geology with Caiyun Zhang

28 min

Caiyun Zhang from Florida Atlantic University joins us to talk about a competitive college test, being randomly placed into the Ocean University of China to study Geology, being introduced to GIS and aerial photography in graduate school, hyperspectral lidar, Caiyun’s love of all things Florida, the birth of FloridaView, Alaskan permafrost assessment and studies, wetland mapping in the Everglades, working with the National Park Service at Canaveral National Seashore for assessing damage from hurricanes, community mapping for flood estimation, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Human Brains Work on Short Time Frames with Chandana Mitra

39 min

Chandana Mitra from Auburn University joins us to talk about games with paper atlases, being a Geography Geek, GIS in school in India, quantifying the growth of Kolkata, the perils of old digitizing techniques, teaching GIS, AlabamaView, Earth As Art highlighting Alabama, collaborations within the AmericaView network, measuring temperature differences with iButtons and GIS, weather and climate models, human impacts of heat, neighborhood land uses and urban heat, desktop VR modules, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Remote Sensing and Wildfire Management - The Squared Circle, Round Four

46 min

This is Round Four of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Dr. Sam Batzli from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Nancy French from the Michigan Tech Research Institute, and Dr. Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University, and we’re discussing all things wildfire management with remote sensing and geospatial technologies. We talk about fire detection through remote sensing, the impact of emissions from fires, fuel mapping, post-fire analysis and potential impacts like debris-flow and landslides, fire danger assessment, Landfire, radar remote sensing for examining moisture conditions on the ground, terrestrial laser scanning before and after fire events, prescribed burns and fire behavior, NIFC (National Interagency Fire Center), measuring fuel moisture, FireSat, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

A Record Of What Has Been Lost with Elise Laugier

39 min

Elise Laugier from Utah State University joins us to talk about her background in archeology, landscape ecology, the CORONA Atlas project, viewing landscape changes through CORONA imagery, the Spatial Archaeometry Lab (SPARCL), UtahView, the archeological and environmental science projects of the LEGASYS Lab, the development of the USU certificate programs in remote sensing and geospatial AI, examining high resolution historical imagery, storytelling with imagery, flying UAS in northern Iraq, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

I Always Ride The Waves with Kashif Mahmud

34 min

Kashif Mahmud from Midwestern State University joins us to talk about his time as a lecturer in Civil Engineering, a journey that went from Bangladesh to Australia to America, Kashif’s work with TexasView, the El Paso Science Festival, the activities of the Landsat Advisory Group (the LAG), being an editor of the Journal of Earth Observations and Geospatial Applications, lidar analysis, surface and subsurface modeling, using lidar in caves, new algorithms for lidar analysis and feature extraction, advances in lidar technology, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

You Come To Learn, Engage, and Eat with Rodney Yantis and Courtney Poirier Chicola

50 min

Rodney Yantis and Courtney Poirier Chicola from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette return to talk about a disheartening lack of raptors, the origin of the GEOSERVICE workshop series, rising water and its effects in south Louisiana, NASA Aerokats, the various geospatial technologies activities for middle and high school students at the GEOSERVICE workshops, Earth Observation Day, generational learning, the role of undergraduate student mentors in the workshops, 26 years of Disaster Response workshops, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the 2025 Disaster Response activities and topics, the role of Geospatial First Responders, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters, how to register for the upcoming 2026 workshops, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at: https://americaview.substack.com/. 

One Person's Noise Is Another Person's Signal with Barb Ryan

48 min

Barb Ryan, formerly of the USGS and the World Geospatial Industry Council, joins us to talk about Barb’s 0,0 point at a hill and a creek in Dalton, New York, a trip to Las Cruces that stopped in Denver, joining the USGS at the water division, mass measurement of ground water wells, traveling to Antarctica, how Barb had a mountain in Antarctica named after her, Barb’s work as the Director of the Space Programme of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), coordinating satellite observations of weather information, the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), a system of systems, how the Landsat archive became free and open data, the economic return and benefits of the satellite industry, the interconnectedness of the Earth system, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

You Keep Watching The Skies For The Next Year with Chris McGinty

41 min

Chris McGinty from Utah State University joins us a guest instead of a host for this special one-year anniversary episode to talk about building 3D models of terrain from tinfoil, winning a Geography bee, a choice of a business degree in college, Chris’ time as a coal miner, the day the dean recommended a GIS class, Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC), the birth of UtahView, Chris’ time as AmericaView’s Program Manager and his path to becoming the Executive Director of AmericaView, communicating science and education on Capitol Hill, the importance of Earth Observation data, the future of AmericaView, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Open Data Is The Future with Nicole Kong

39 min

Nicole Kong from Purdue University joins us to talk about choosing environmental science as a major, remote sensing of giant panda habitats, a slightly different choice to work outside of academia in the transportation field, a GIS Day event with Larry Biehl, developments and opportunities in IndianaView, Nicole’s role as Associate Dean, the growth of geospatial information science at Purdue, GIS and remote sensing in business and public health, the importance of open source tools and open data, MultiSpec, multidisciplinary collaboration in research, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

I Was Definitely Born To Do GIS and Remote Sensing with Kass Green

40 min

Kass Green of Kass Green and Associates joins us to talk about natural resource economics, Kass’ founding of Pacific Meridian Resources and how the company expanded, mapping old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest, SpaceImaging, lobbying for the Landsat Act, mapping change with high-resolution imagery, getting maps and information into the hands of decision makers in an intuitive form, using AI in imagery classification, lidar in mapping projects, Kass’ involvement in local politics in Sausalito, analysis of the impact of sea level rise on Sausalito, making decisions with data, Pacific Veg Map, Kass’ collaboration with Russ Congalton, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Nature-Based Solutions with Jason Parent

34 min

Jason Parent from the University of Rhode Island joins us to talk about not having any marketable skills from an environmental science degree, studying the expansion of cities over time through GIS, mapping cities with Landsat, field work with wind flow patterns around tree islands in the Everglades, dust from the Sahara reaching Florida, riding around in airboats, Jason’s work as the PI of Rhode Island View, modeling forest mortality with lidar and imagery, urban tree canopy analysis, mapping dead trees with aerial imagery, mapping vernal pools for habitat analysis, nature-based solutions, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Minnesota of the Solar System with Darci Snowden

37 min

Darci Snowden from Central Washington University joins us to talk about a documentary about the Voyager mission, Darci's attending Space Camp as a kid, geophysics and the application to planetary sciences, being a participating scientist in the Cassini mission, particles and fields, using radar for mapping Saturn’s moon Titan, remote sensing and planetary science, the Eclipse Ballooning project, NASA Science Activation Teams, the NASA’s VERITAS mission and SAR, using NASA AREN Aeropods, professional development workshops for teachers, inspiring students to feel like scientists, Europa Clipper, the Dragonfly drone mission to Titan, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Sleep Is Highly Overrrated with Qiusheng Wu

36 min

Qiusheng Wu from the University of Tennessee joins us to talk about his being assigned to study GIS in China, the inspiration of Google Earth, the founding of TennesseeView, geemap, publishing geospatial books, Qiusheng’s book about Google Earth Engine and Python with Locate Press, the advantages of self-publishing, advancements in GeoAI, AI models applied to geospatial data, Qiusheng’s development of video tutorials and resources, sharing knowledge, advice for students, geospatial applications and careers, and much more. Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Geospatial Found Me with Angela Lee

40 min

Angela Lee from Esri joins us to talk about map libraries, Esri’s work with academic libraries, introducing GIS into K-12 education, developing a customized version of ArcView for K-12 schools, creating teaching materials for K-12 classes, helping people understand the world through maps, addressing career skills, the scientific method, spatial literacy, potential impacts of AI in teaching and learning, evolving the GIScience curriculum, the importance of critical thinking and asking the right questions, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Remote Sensing and K-12 Education - The Squared Circle, Round Three

40 min

This is Round Three of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Dr. Paige Brochu from the University of Vermont, Dr. Tracy DeLiberty from the University of Delaware, Ms. Amy Logan from Iowa State University, and Dr. Dana Peterson from the University of Kansas and we are discussing working with remote sensing and imagery in K-12 classrooms.  We talk about the education-ready digital toolkits our guests are building, creating state level landcover maps, digital state atlases, lesson plans using maps and data in a variety of applications, challenges of incorporating geospatial technologies into a K-12 curriculum, supporting new teachers, curriculum insertion points, removing the software barriers and web applications, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

I've Always Been A Data Wrangler At Heart with Sam Batzli

40 min

Sam Batzli from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joins us to talk about the vestibule of the Manly Miles Building at Michigan State University, writing historical contexts for installations around the country for the US Army Corps of Engineers, selective availability for GPS, distributing Landsat imagery online, the Upper Great Lakes RESAC, the birth of WisconsinView, data wrangling, the Space Science and Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison, fire analysis via remote sensing and web mapping, burn scar mapping and the BRISK project, thermal anomalies, new developments of RealEarth, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Word Was Provenance with Jason Tullis

40 min

Jason Tullis from the University of Arkansas joins us to talk about finding fossils in the mountains, the question of seeing a moon in a blue sky, attending school in England, being introduced to GIS in the US Forest Service summer program, mapping with aerial photos, cold-calling the University of South Carolina for graduate work, a choice between the CIA or academia, the importance of data provenance, remote sensing imagery and provenance, basic science on Mars, data replicability, a technical geography concentration in the geosciences, renaming remote sensing, the four futures, space exploration, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Election Night Is The Equivalent of the Academy Awards with Chris Cooper

40 min

Chris Cooper from G2G Consulting joins us for this special episode to talk about the whole process behind federal funding which influences so many activities and projects today - we discuss coloring in maps in red and blue on election night as a child, Chris’ work on Rob Portman’s 2010 Senate race, the job of a Staff Assistant in a Congressional office, addressing policy issues on Capitol Hill, the activities of the different Congressional Committees for Appropriations, the process of funding requests, visiting Capitol Hill to discuss GIS and remote sensing, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Photogrammetry Is Not Exactly A Household Word with Karen Schuckman

45 min

Karen Schuckman from RRC Companies and ASPRS joins us to talk about riding Argentinian horses on vacation, living the farm life and an equestrian background, Karen’s time as an international-level gymnast in high school, meteorologists who study meteors, remote sensing and oceanography, photogrammetry courses for surveying, a momentous summer picnic, teaching at Penn State, participation in ASPRS, aerial GPS and topographic lidar, the importance of locational accuracy, positional accuracy and automated processes, a growing demand for an understanding of photogrammetry, GeoWeek 2026, new developments at ASPRS, student chapters of ASPRS, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Everything Was Going Fine And Then... with Santosh Panda

34 min

Santosh Panda from the University of Alaska Fairbanks joins us to talk about coal mine reclamation in India, a choice between petroleum and remote sensing, helicopter flights to remote field sites, Alaskan permafrost modeling and mapping, AlaskaView, statewide forest health and change, boreal forest change through time, MOOC development for GIS and remote sensing, a traveling permafrost exhibit, student training for Alaskan wildfire mitigation with geospatial tools, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

When You're Cool The Sun Shines On You 24 Hours A Day with Robert Washington-Allen

49 min

Robert Washington-Allen from the University of Nevada, Reno joins us to kick off 2026 with an extra-length episode where we talk about Robert’s time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, the Curlew National Grassland, time-series imagery analysis, kudzu bug distribution, the REDD program, applications of Terrestrial Laser Scanner technology around the world, the dynamics of the Niassa Special Reserve in Mozambique, Robert’s work with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), an agricultural and natural resources atlas of Nevada, GRACE_FO applications for groundwater, below-ground biomass, and so much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Some Sort of Research Gene In My Blood with Jeong Chang “JC” Seong

41 min

Jeong Chang “JC” Seong from University of West Georgia joins us to talk about staying up all night to beat Tetris, the power of a PhD degree, working for Erdas with Landsat 7 data, being a faculty member at Northern Michigan University, a database for managing AmericaView’s activities, the state of Georgia atlas project, GeorgiaView mini-grants and collaborations, the Geographical Bulletin online journal, the AmericaView Journal of Earth Observation and Geospatial Applications, traffic congestion modeling, fisheries and food security, and more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Your Backyard Is More Than You Think It Is with Pablo Viramontes

33 min

Pablo Viramontes from the New Mexico Department of Agriculture joins us to talk about his time as an ROTC cadet, GIS in the intelligence field, an internship with the Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico, gathering data at the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, geospatial work with the TRIO Upward Bound program, K-12 geography education, visiting the White House, the National Space Council, the El Paso Science Festival, the Valencia Soil and Water Conservation District, agriculture applications, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Don't Go Driving A Ship Around Lake Champlain with Paige Brochu

40 min

Paige Brochu from University of Vermont joins us to talk about the influence of Jurassic Park, archeology in the Caribbean, mapping Lake Champlain shipwrecks, Benedict Arnold’s gunboat, the Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) at UVM, interning with the Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island, a spatial connection via Strava that ended up in a Postdoc position, planetary health, meeting with policy makers on Capitol Hill, VermontView and Jarlath O’Neill-Dunne, drone imagery and the resources of the SAL used for disaster response in Vermont, GIS and remote sensing for addressing public health issues, spatial analysis related to drinking water, analysis of greenspace and green infrastructure, training the next generation of geospatial experts, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

Making Datasets More Accessible with Tyler Erickson

36 min

Tyler Erickson from VorGeo joins us to talk about foldable paper maps, working with remotely sensed data at a technology non-profit, the founding of MichiganView, open Landsat data, Google Earth Engine, Tyler’s time working at Google on the Earth Engine project, the founding of VorGeo and the work being done there, CTrees and above-ground biomass measurement, OpenET and water data, SAR data, SatCamp, advanced machine learning techniques, foundation models and embeddings, geospatial applications of large language modules, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

The Way People Work And Can Live With Fire with Nancy French

35 min

Nancy French from the Michigan Tech Research Institute at Michigan Technological University joins us to talk about the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), SAR applications, field data in conjunction with radar remote sensing to analyze fire effects, the Bettles fire in Alaska, MichiganView, wildfires and remote sensing, wildfire smoke and health, estimating fuel consumption, fuel moisture monitoring, and much more.  Show notes and photos are available at:  https://americaview.substack.com

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