Guess what?!?
In April, AmericaView, the national remote sensing network dedicated to empowering Earth Observation, launched its own podcast called 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. The idea of the podcast is to help listeners learn more about the cool people and the projects they are doing as part of the AmericaView network.
The podcast hosts are Dr. Bradley Shellito from Youngstown State University on Youngstown, Ohio, and Mr. Chris McGinty, the Executive Director of AmericaView located in Logan, Utah. New episodes drop every Monday morning.
If you are just getting started, I would suggest listening to the first episode, as it explains the origin story of AmericaView.
Here are a few episodes that might be of interest to IowaView readers:
Episode 9: The PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeely
Our guest for this episode is Robin McNeely from Iowa State University and the former PI of IowaView. We start off discussing working with AutoCAD, PC Arc/Info, UNIX, Sun Stations, building a land cover dataset for Iowa, landscape ecology, and Robin’s family connection with the Army Corps of Engineers. Then we delve into nutrient management, analyzing agriculture impacts with imagery, teacher training workshops, and a whole lot more.
Episode 15: I Grew Up With All The Things with Amy Logan
Our guest for this episode is Amy Logan from Iowa State University. We start off with Amy in college borrowing a car to intern at the Northeast Iowa Resource and Conservation Development office, a big orange GPS backpack for mapping, and community and regional planning. From there we talk about using ArcPad for tree mapping, OpenStreetMap, Iowa As Art, analyzing patterns in nature, Amy being the recipient of the NCGE’s 2024 Outstanding Support for Geography Education Award, involving art teachers with remote sensing imagery, lesson plans for K-12 teachers, and much more.
