Minds Behind Maps

My Favourite Books of 2024 - MBM79

On every Minds Behind Maps episode I ask guests for books they've read they think are worth sharing. This time I'm sharing with you the books I read & recommend from my 2

How Bloomberg's Data Scientists use Satellite Images for Reporting: Krishna Karra - MBM78

Krishna Karra is a data scientist & report for Bloomberg, having used machine learning & satellite images for reporting. Recent stories from him & his team include mappin

How Ex-Vox Video Producer Phil Edwards thinks about Maps to tell stories - MBM77

Phil Edwards is a video producer who worked at Vox for nearly 10 years, and now runs his own Youtube channel exploring the history of businesses, and lately has been usin

What Hyperspectral constellations have to offer: Pixxel’s example - Awais Ahmed #MBM76

Awais Ahmed is the co-founder & CEO of Pixxel, a company building a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Unlike “traditional” cameras, these satellites can

The Ex-Uber Data Scientist Who wants to simplify Data Science with Serverless Computing: Sina Kashuk

Sina Kashuk is the co-founder & CEO of Fused, who wants to make iterating & deploying in Python faster with serverless computing. We break down what that actually means,

Meet the man trying to build a 20cm 3D map of the world: Andrew Peterson - #MBM74

Andrew Peterson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Array Labs, with a simple mission: Mapping the whole world in 3D, at 20cm in near real time. We peel the layers as to what it

Jamie McMichael-Phillips: How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030 - #MBM73

Jamie McMichael-Phillips is the Director of the Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to map all of the world's oceans, by 2030. For context, in 2024, we’re at 26.1%. This is c

[Bonus] Books, Tech & Life: A Long conversation with Jed Sundwall

Check out Jed’s Techs on Text podcast Jed has also been on Minds Behind Maps before. We talked open data, AI, and the role of books for people building things

Jean-Martin Bauer: How the World Food Program tackles Hunger - #MBM72

Jean-Martin Bauer has been working at the World Food Program for over 20years, and the author of the “The New Breadline”. Most recently he was the Country Director for Ha

Ashlee Vance: The Man telling us the Stories of the New Space Industry - #MBM71

Ashlee Vance is a Tech Journalist, the author of Elon Musk's 1st biography in 2015, the host of "Hello World" on Youtube and the author of "When the Heavens Went on Sale"

Luke Fischer: Who would want to start a Satellite Image Marketplace? SkyFi - #MBM70

Luke Fischer is the Co-Founder & CEO of SkyFi, a company that we'll describe in a few ways in this episode, but boils down to an Earth Observation marketplace. We talk ab

Ben Strong: We have Foundation Models of Earth, now What? Earth Index - MBM#69

Ben Strong is the Science & Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome, an NGO working on the intersection of data, science & digital design. Most recently they've been workin

Ib Green: Browser based visualisation rendering - MBM#68

Ib Green led the development of 3D visualisation tools like for example Uber’s deck.gl and is now working at Foursquare, after having started Unfolded, which Foursquare a

What does a Foundational Model of Earth look like? Clay Foundation: Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño - MBM#67

Bruno Sanchez is the Executive Director of the Clay Foundation, which just released their v1 of a “Foundational Model of Earth”. We talk about what that means, building o

How to Map Mars (to Land Rovers) - Fred Calef III - MBM#66

Dr Fred Calef III has the unofficial title of "Keeper of Maps" at NASA JPL, he's the Lead Mapping Specialist for most of JPL's Mars Rover missions, most recently that bei

Creating the most used map animation tool: GEOLayers - Markus Bergelt - MBM#65

Sponsor: OpenCage Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API Geomob ShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you

Volodymyr Agafonkin: The Story of Leaflet, Building the Simplest Mapping Library & Life in Ukraine

Volodymyr Agafonkin is the creator of Leaflet, an open-source JS mapping library started in 2008 that is used pretty much everywhere on the Internet today. We end up nerd

Qiusheng Wu: Building & Sharing Open Source Software - MBM#63

Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor in Geography, an active open source contributor behind projects like geemap, leafmap or segment-geospatial also sharing tutorials on

Ryan Abernathey: Taking Scientific Computing to the next level - MBM#62

Ryan Abernathey is a Climate Scientist, open-source software developer and the CEO & co-founder of Earthmover, a company trying to simplify how scientific computing is do

Gilberto Camara - Brazil's Fight Against Deforestation; Politics & Open Data - MBM#61

Gilberto Camara was the director of INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research from 2005 to 2012, working there 35y in total and leading the use of satellite im