The show
Explore conversations with the people applying geospatial technology across Africa and around the world.
Modern state-of-the-art satellite technology and sensing capabilities, enabling constant and consistent monitoring of anywhere in our Planet, are changing the way we study and improve life on Earth. But how affordable are these satellite systems?
S3 · E2 · Guest: David Raskovan · September 10, 2023
Geospatial innovation in Africa is growing and Locana is learning a lot from this through their work in Africa.
S2 · E10 · Guest: Todd Slind · December 6, 2022
Kart provides distributed version control for geospatial and tabular data. Kart stores geospatial and tabular data in Git, providing version control at the row and cell level, it also provides repository working copies as GIS databases and files, and allows edit to be done directly in common GIS software without plugins.
S2 · E9 · Guest: Hamish · November 28, 2022
Building your portfolio as a geospatial professional is important, even more so are the experiences that make up the portfolio. In this episode we sat down to talk about volunteering as a way to improve your skills and build your portfolio.
S2 · E7 · Guest: Iniobong Benson · August 1, 2022
Using GIS in business is not a new concept, however, in this episode Opeyemi hosted Alazar Tekle, a GIS Analyst and Deputy Manger at AddisMap - an interactive City Guide of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to talk about how his team used Open Source geospatial data to help but businesses on the map.
S2 · E4 · Guest: Alazar Tekle · May 2, 2022
Drones play a big role in remote sensing efforts, from small to large scale mapping projects and are also deployed for monitoring and disaster mapping, among other uses.
S2 · E3 · Guest: Adeola Akinwale · March 29, 2022
This episode talks about the role of GIS in the energy sector, from needs assessment to supply planning and distribution.
S2 · E2 · Guest: Akansha Saklani · February 27, 2022
In this first episode of the 2022, we had a general discussion around Geospatial trends to look forward to in 2022.
S2 · E1 · Guest: Iniobong Benson · January 30, 2022