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Geospatial FM

Wilfred Waters
Geospatial Data
Earth Observation
Kuwait
Geospatial Technology
Climate Change
Artificial Intelligence
Neom
Disaster Response
Geopolitics
Human Rights
Gis
Vietnam
Borders
Migration
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Telecommunications
Geospatial Stocks
Satellite Imagery
Data Management
Education

Obsessed with geospatial foundation models, broadcasting in geospatial and compounding via publicly listed geospatial equities.

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I am joined by Robert Cheatham of Japan Earth Observer (www.japanearthobserver.com/) for a GEO500 Weekly Wrap. Provisionally, also the PhysicalAI Weekly Wrap. I'll think about it.

GEO500 weekly roundup sheet: docs.google.com/spreads... more

Today's guest is Robert Cheatham www.linkedin.com/in/rcheetham/ and we are talking about Japan Earth Observer, www.japanearthobserver.com/. This is a newsletter on the space, Earth observation, and geospatial industry in Japan. It is ... more

Mark Baumgartner is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Back in 2011 he and Sarah Mussoline published a paper on how to use computer science to classify whales from sound recordings. This episode is about an evolution of that ... more

Karolina Sarna is founder of the wonderfully named Rebel Strategy Lab. She also writes and codes. On that basis alone I would want to record an episode. Even better though, she is an alumnus of the European Space Agency and Iceye, meaning she has a ... more

Abdulfatai Sanusi is a geospatial developer at Proforce Galaxies. He tells us the story of an MS Azure to Esri Enterprise migration at a power utility that covers several states in Nigeria. He then moves on to the next phase of his career at Proforce... more

Ryan Kmetz is back to talk with us about quantagri.substack.com/. This initiative began in January 2026. It is about analyzing satellite data to predict the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. Ryan proposes... more

This was quite the episode! We return for Round 2 with Nelson Roque. He is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. He walked us through OpenClaw.

Nelson is an incredibly useful guest because he is able to cover bo... more

Geoharbor is a solution from SketchMyView. It is a way to avoid notebook hell. This is done through all data engineers on a team using a common framework. I recommend a watch to see Rakesh showing it in action.

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Recent Guests

Atle Borsolm
Data Scientist at NV5 Geospatial
NV5 Geospatial
Episode: Listening for Whales with NV5 Geospatial
Karolina Sarna
Founder of Rebel Strategy Lab
Rebel Strategy Lab
Episode: Rebel Strategy Lab
Abdulfatai Sanusi
Geospatial developer at Proforce Galaxies Ltd.
Proforce Galaxies
Episode: GIS at a Nigerian Power Utility and Earth Observation at Proforce Galaxies
Alex Merose
Member of the technical staff of Open Athena
Open Athena
Episode: Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 1/3
Ryan Kmetz
Subject matter expert in the climate and geospatial field.
Episode: Voting in the Geospatial Economy
Rakesh Gupta
Data engineer with experience in GIS and data engineering solutions.
SketchMyView
Episode: Apache Sedona and SedonaDB in Microsoft Fabric
Joe Francica
Managing Director of LocationIntelligence.US
LocationIntelligence.US
Episode: LocationIntelligence.US
Arham Ansari
A civil engineer and flood model developer focused on open-source solutions for flood prediction.
Episode: GeoRiskAI
Juliette Murphy
CEO and co-founder of Floodmapp
Floodmapp
Episode: Floodmapp

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Listening for Whales with NV5 Geospatial
Q: How does supervised learning change the approach compared to traditional rule-based methods?
Supervised learning replaces hand-coded rules with models trained on labeled examples, enabling the system to generalize across similar sounds and scale to large datasets, though it requires substantial labeled data and expert validation to ensure accuracy.
Listening for Whales with NV5 Geospatial
Q: What drives the data challenges in whale acoustics, and how does the workflow address them?
The main driver is the sheer volume of recordings from long-running hydrophone arrays, leading to sparse detections among days with ocean noise; the workflow emphasizes scalable processing, data filtering, and visualization to extract meaningful whale detections efficiently.
QuantAgri - predictive agricultural insights
Q: What exactly is spectral velocity and how does it translate into trading alpha?
Spectral velocity is a statistical score that tracks whether crop biomass is increasing or decreasing faster than historical norms, acting as an accelerometer for agricultural health. By comparing this rate to market consensus yields and USDA expectations, it provides a forward-looking signal about supply and potential price moves roughly 20 days ahead of official reports, which can translate into trading alpha.
Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 2/3
Q: Does machine learning account for chaos?
Machine learning can learn functions without knowing internal methods, allowing for better prediction in chaotic systems, like the weather.
Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 2/3
Q: How is this possible?
Machine learning methods are beating even ensemble predictions, indicating advancements in understanding and computational techniques that allow forecasting improvements.

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What is Geospatial FM about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A show centered on geospatial foundations, this program consistently explores how AI, open-source tools, and data platforms reshape location-based applications. Recent episodes spotlight live geospatial dashboards built with AI agents, scalable data engineering for geospatial workloads, open-source flood prediction and disaster forecasting, and enterprise maps solutions. The discussions often blend practical demos with broader implications—data provenance, governance, ethics in AI, and the evolving developer and analyst experience when powerful geospatial tooling becomes broadly accessible. A notable edge is the mix of technical deep-dives (Sedona, Azure Maps, distributed data contracts) with real-world applications (flood forecasting, real... more

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