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Spatial SignalsThe Course Catalog Was The Yellow Pages with Dana PetersonDana Peterson from the University of Kansas joins us to talk about the Yellow Pages of class descriptions, the Kansas Biological Survey, archiving Landsat imagery from 9-Track Tapes, spectroradiometers, watersheds and green-up, field work on the Rio Grande, the Sentinel GreenReport that leverages Sentinel-2 imagery for vegetation monitoring over time, eastern red cedar woody encroachment, and mapping and collecting data for invasive species analysis. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-07-2831 min

Spatial SignalsWe Had Some Sensors Eaten By Cows with Kevin CzajkowskiKevin Czajkowski from the University of Toledo joins us to talk about snow days, a heat wave summer, an internship with the National Weather Service, space plasma physics, the revelation of getting paid to go to graduate school, the ups and downs of academic job applications, the perils of looking like a geographer, receiving the NASA New Investigator grant, soil moisture sampling and the SMAP project, taking your son with you for fieldwork, having sensors eaten by cows, GLOBE Mission Earth, Kevin’s work philosophy, the early days of OhioView, air quality satellites and analysis, and much more. Show not...2025-07-2141 min

Spatial SignalsI Grew Up With All The Things with Amy LoganAmy Logan from Iowa State University joins us to talk about her borrowing a car in her college days in order to intern at the Northeast Iowa Resource and Conservation Development office, a big orange GPS backpack for mapping, community and regional planning, 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, and lesson plans for K-12 teachers. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-07-1438 min

Spatial SignalsA Different SD Than What I Was Expecting with Bruce MillettBruce 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 AmericaView network, workforce development, precision agriculture with UAS, and remote sensing analysis for surface water change. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-07-0741 min

Spatial SignalsThe First Digital Global Map with Bobbi LenczowskiBobbi 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 global digital map made from scanning paper maps, Bobbi’s time as Executive Director of AmericaView, her service with ASPRS, as well as her involvement with multiple geospatial initiatives in the St. Louis area, including NGA, GeoFutures, and drone training for high school students. Show notes are available at: http...2025-06-3045 min

Spatial SignalsCollecting Leaf-Level Data with Donna DelparteDonna 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 Y, using drone-based lidar for mapping slope susceptibility related to landslides, workshops at the Craters of the Moon, and monitoring golden eagle nesting activity. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-06-2330 min

Spatial SignalsCreating Maps One Line At a Time with Tracy DeLibertyTracy 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 available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-06-1628 min

Spatial SignalsThey Found All The Dinosaurs Already with Courtney Poirier ChicolaCourtney 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 of image classification methods and accuracy issues. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-06-0935 min

Spatial SignalsThe PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeelyRobin 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 agriculture impacts with imagery, and teacher training workshops. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-06-0233 min

Spatial SignalsWe Need An Earth Observation Day with Rebecca DodgeRebecca 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 Earth Observation Day. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-05-2631 min

Spatial SignalsGeospatial First Responders with Rodney YantisRodney 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 Water workshop program, and planning for colonies on the moon. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-05-1929 min

Spatial SignalsAn Open Source Human Being with Lindi QuackenbushLindi 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 and researchers like AmericaView, Lindi’s time as a director of the AmericaView board as well as her academic leadership and research at SUNY ESF. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-05-1226 min

Spatial SignalsPush a Button and Map All the Sagebrush in Utah with Doug RamseyDoug 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 2025-05-0528 min

Spatial SignalsWhere the Ocean Is On The Correct Side of the Planet with Russ CongaltonRuss 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 more. Show notes are available are: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-04-2832 min

Spatial SignalsA Smartphone With Wings and a Propeller with John McGeeJohn 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 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on drones and education today. Show notes are available at: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-04-2131 min

Spatial SignalsAI As a Research Assistant with Aaron MaxwellAaron 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: https://americaview.substack.com 2025-04-1432 min

Spatial SignalsThe Secret Origin of AmericaViewThis 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 available at: https://americaview.substack.com/. 2025-04-0742 min

Eyes on EarthEyes on Earth Episode 91 – Intro to AmericaViewAmericaView aims to advance Earth observation education through a network of programs based at universities in more than 40 states. In this episode of Eyes on Earth, we talk about AmericaView’s goals and how AmericaView and its member states explain remote sensing efforts to society in a variety of ways, including outreach to students who range from elementary to graduate school. We also give examples of the organization’s remote sensing research and describe AmericaView’s ties with the USGS and with Landsat.2023-03-0719 min

A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial TechnologiesA VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 224Main topic: Our conversation on some of the debates over GIS and its future. News: NASA, AmericaView, and Chinese.2009-11-0240 min

A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial TechnologiesA VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 29Main Topic: Interview with John O’Loughlin. News: AmericaView Internships, Mapion, Intergraph SGI change of guard 2006-02-0544 min