The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Earth Observation - The Invisible Industry

6/17/2026 • 66 min

What is Earth observation, really — and why, after fifty years of satellite imagery, is it still not "mainstream"? In this episode, I'm joined by Aravind Ravichandran, founder of TerraWatch, an independent research and advisory firm focused entirely on Earth observation. Aravind writes the TerraWatch newsletter, runs the EO Summit, and spends his time thinking … Play episode

10 Tools for Telling Stories With Maps
Agents, Guardrails, and the Death of the Dashboard
How HOT Is Rethinking Drone Mapping
Common Space
AI in QGIS
Geospatial Makers Start Building!
Vibe Coding and the Fragmentation of Open Source
A5 Pentagons Are the New Bestagons
The Sustainable Path for Open Source Businesses
Free Software and Expensive Threats
Mapping Your Own World: Open Drones and Localized AI
From Data Dump to Data Product
Reflections from FOSS4G 2025
Building a Community of Geospatial Storytellers
I have been making AI slop and you should too
Scribble: An AI Agent for Web Mapping
Mapillary
Telematics Data is Reshaping Our Understanding of Road Networks
Hivemapper
Tracking Elephants
Female Voices in Geospatial
QField
Analyst To Engineer
Satclip - Encoding Location
Natural Language Geocoding
Semantic Search For Geospatial
Why You Should Care About L Band
GeoParquet For Beginners
Finding Stuff Indoors
What is humanitarian GIS?
AI Autocomplete for QGIS
GNSS receivers - why precise positioning will not be coming to your phone …
The way you talk about your geospatial skills is costing you money
Modern Geospatial
Introduction To LIDAR & Point Clouds
Introduction to Cloud Native Geospatial
GeeMap
GPS Reimagined
The Business of QGIS Development
Making Beautiful Maps In Felt
Planet - Imaging Everything, Every Day ... Almost
Fire Mapping, Maritime Search And Wide Angle Imaging
Personal Branding in Geospatial
Entity Resolution with Placekey
Strategic Buy-In For FOSS4G
From GNSS to VPS
Overture Maps And The Daylight Distribution
100 billion Points Every Day
Synthetic Data For Real Problems

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