Best AmericaView Podcasts (2025)

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A Different SD Than What I Was Expecting with Bruce Millett 41:37

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5d ago41:37

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Bruce Millett from South Dakota State University joins us to talk about Bruce’s service in the US Navy as a weather observer and remote sensing, working on a SMQ-10 for satellite tracking, DIME files, Selective Availability and GPS accuracy, moving from the coast to South Dakota, wetlands simulation modeling, the impact and collaboration of the Ame…

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The First Digital Global Map with Bobbi Lenczowski 45:13

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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 g…

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Collecting Leaf-Level Data with Donna Delparte 30:00

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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…

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Creating Maps One Line At a Time with Tracy DeLiberty 28:30

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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 av…

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They Found All The Dinosaurs Already with Courtney Poirier Chicola 35:23

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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…

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The PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeely 33:25

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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 ag…

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We Need An Earth Observation Day with Rebecca Dodge 31:49

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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 Ea…

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Geospatial First Responders with Rodney Yantis 29:26

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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 Wate…

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An Open Source Human Being with Lindi Quackenbush 26:48

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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 an…

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Push a Button and Map All the Sagebrush in Utah with Doug Ramsey 28:31

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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…

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Where the Ocean Is On The Correct Side of the Planet with Russ Congalton 32:20

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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 mo…

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A Smartphone With Wings and a Propeller with John McGee 31:14

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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 Nat…

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AI As a Research Assistant with Aaron Maxwell 32:42

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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:…

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The Secret Origin of AmericaView 42:03

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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 av…