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Jun 29, 2022
Eric Frost - Director of the Visualization Center at San Diego State University
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Eric Frost, Director of the Visualization Center at San Diego State University.
01:30 Current topics in geospatial visualization (focused on Ukraine).
05:10 What does the SDSU Visualization Laboratory do?
- https://vizcenter.sdsu.edu/vizcenter/about/
07:30 Supporting General Honore’s requests for data on maps.
08:15 Young people thinking spatially and the impact of smartphones on expectations
09:50 Making geospatial data useful, usable, and used.
10:50 Establishing Trust and recognizing Trusted Agents for data dissemination
12:35 Commercial imagery in Ukraine as an example of trust.
13:05 Democratized capabilities and expectations in low-resource settings.
14:15 CALTRANS free GIS tools synthesizing data at the US-Mexico border crossing.
- CALTRANS QuickMap: https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP One) app is here.
17:25 WhatsApp in use on the border.
- https://www.whatsapp.com/
17:50 Assessing SnapChat for human trafficking mitigation
- https://www.snapchat.com/download
19:00 The risk, and the opportunity, of open data. How do we determine what to share?
19:50 SDSU mapping fentanyl smuggling
- https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2022/06/14/26-indicted-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-including-500000-pills-laced-with-fentanyl/
21:20 Global Supply Chain tracking on the blockchain.
21:45 Keeping up with transnational criminal organizations using GIS tools.
22:40 Data sources our listeners might care about:
- Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard.
o https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
- Drone images from Ukraine (Javelin impacts, river crossings)
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A33ZVOdxxwI
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkwnJC08THI
- DHS S&T MappedIn.com – schools and civic building maps in response to Uvalde (not openly available, but the link below is helpful)
o https://www.cisa.gov/maps
- Zillow for home visualization
o https://www.zillow.com/
- Traffic speed limits
o https://www.adci.com/blog/4-speed-limit-databases-you-need-know-about
- Border wait times
o https://511sd.com/
28:45 The perspective of WWHGD’s value to Dr. Frost.
29:50 The upcoming WWHGD Panel at ESRI – San Diego
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Jun 22, 2022
Ryan Engstrom - Director of the Data Science Program, Department of Geography, George Washington University
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Ryan Engstrom, Director of the Data Science Program within the Department of Geography at George Washington University.
00:50 Professor Engstrom’s research interests
01:35 Defining “deprived areas”
Kuffer, Thomson, D. R., Boo, G., Mahabir, R., Grippa, T., Vanhuysse, S., Engstrom, R., Ndugwa, R., Makau, J., Darin, E., de Albuquerque, J. P., & Kabaria, C. (2020). The Role of Earth Observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping “System” for Low-to-Middle Income Countries. Remote Sensing (Basel, Switzerland), 12(6), 982–. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060982
02:32 Insights from work in Accra, Ghana
03:40 “Do the most vulnerable people live in the worst slums?”
05:30 Using geospatial data to assess the population/environment balance
06:45 Working with census takers.
08:00 Working in the Arctic, particularly in Russia, and the value of open Census data
09:05 Validating data: survey and satellite integration
10:12 Assessing spatial distribution by economic class: surveys often miss the wealthy
12:00 Youth Mappers (open sourced at OpenStreetMap, 300+ chapters, funded by USAID)
https://www.youthmappers.org/
15:10 Geography 2050 for elementary and high school support.
https://www.geography2050.org/
15:45 Geospatial tools in use at the university level
17:02 Open-source data _models_, not just the data: GitHub availability (and it’s working well)
https://github.com/topics/geospatial-analytics
18:35 Major data sources and managers that have appeared over the past few years
https://github.com/sacridini/Awesome-Geospatial
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/38.01/-95.84
https://earthengine.google.com/
https://aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_lg
19:25 Example: OSM mapping enhancements in Accra
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/27565080#map=9/5.3070/0.4971
20:04 Using machine learning for co-variate income analysis in Belize
Hersh, Engstrom, R., & Mann, M. (2021). Open data for algorithms: mapping poverty in Belize using open satellite derived features and machine learning. Information Technology for Development, 27(2), 263–292.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2020.1811945
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Jun 15, 2022
Jessica Block - Wildfire Data from the University of California - San Diego
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Jessica Block, senior wildfire data scientist from the University of California - San Diego.
01:45 The 2009 Australian Black Saturday wildfire analysis
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires
#wildfire
03:10 Immersive human-sized VR cave for environmental wildfire risk assessment
https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2019/09/02/virtual-reality-cave-offers-three-dimensional-expe
#VR, #immersion, #cave
04:30 WiFire imagery analysis from San Diego County mountaintops
https://wifire.ucsd.edu/
05:45 HPWren system expanding throughout California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada
https://hpwren.ucsd.edu/
#HPWren
06:50 Firemap wildfire behavior data model used for predictive analytics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BqGFfelvs (Firemap tutorial narrated by Jessica Block)
08:40 Global low-resource data acquisition across sectors and specialties
09:50 International Big Pixel Initiative w NASA Worldview for urban entity identity
https://bigpixel.ucsd.edu/
#NASA, #BigPixel, #Worldview
11:10 Place-specific machine learning against imagery for urban forms must include social dynamics
#machinelearning, #socialdynamics
13:10 California Gubernatorial appointment to the Wildfire Safety Advisory Board
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-cpuc/divisions/wildfire-safety-division/wildfire-safety-advisory-board
#wildfiresafetyadvisoryboard
14:40 Culture clash between environmental scientists, data scientists, and firefighters.
16:05 Data sources for our listeners:
https://wifire.ucsd.edu/for all things wildfire related
https://sdgeweather.com/ San Diego Gas and Electric weather awareness models
18:25 US-Mexico border air quality assessment mapping using drones tracking smoke plumes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16499147/ San Diego wildfire air quality assessment
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Jun 8, 2022
Marie Urban - Group Lead for Human Geography at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Marie Urban of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
02:20 Role at Oak Ridge (Group Lead for Human Geography)
04:30 LANDSCAN to understand populations and population movements.
05:50 Population assessment methodologies, proxies, and gap-fillers.
08:50 Prior technical methods and the iterative changes from 10-meter resolution to now.
11:10 Three types of LANDSCAN data sets.
13:20 Specific data fusion requirements for seamless integration
15:02 Trends in population movement during the COVID lockdown.
Sparks, Kevin, et al. “Shifting Temporal Dynamics of Human Mobility in the United States” Journal of Transport Geography, vol. 99, 2022, p. 1.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/science/article/pii/S0966692322000187
16:50 Open Access to LANDSCAN Global, LANDSCAN USA, and LANDSCAN HD data (through the efforts of Amy Rose at ORNL)
https://landscan.ornl.gov/
20:15 Earlier WWHGD “Boundaries” event at Columbia University --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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May 31, 2022
Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee.
0:48 Defining the Civil Applications Committee
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf
2:07 Defining the Triple Junction positioning of the CAC
2:40 The CAC and its Human Security tasks
4:00 Open-source data availability
4:20 International Charter for Space and Major Disasters
https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=87F1DB8EF0A2ECA8F5728124A8760CB0.APP1
5:30 CAC makes datasets available from all partners
7:15 Monthly overview of all Space Charter activations (esp wildfire management)
9:32 Proactive Working Groups (getting to the left of an event)
10:30 Pre and Post Collection analysis
11:20 Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG) explanation
12:18 Events hosted for professional development within the Intelligence Community
13:20 ESWG participation in the first National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2253-national-intelligence-estimate-on-climate-change
14:15 Professional resource for the intelligence community, extending to academia like the Naval Postgraduate School
15:20 5th Environmental Security Summit (open to the public) 21-22 September 2022
16:25 National Intelligence University website for the previous Environmental Security Summit Proceedings: https://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21C-102_Environmental_Security_Summit_2020_Conference_Paperv2.pdf
17:45 “The environment cannot be classified.” – a discussion of new partners
19:10 The CAC used COVID as a forcing function to open up resources to a larger audience.
20:45 How to participate in CAC or ESWG events: ESWG_Leadership@NGA.mil
21:25 Request participation and an open facing CAC Fact Sheet from CAC@USGS.gov --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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May 24, 2022
Laura Cline from the Department of State (Dos) Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU).
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sat down with Laura Cline from the Department of State (Dos) Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU).
00:59 Laura describes her role at DoS HIU specifically with the Secondary Cities and the Cities COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) program.
1:55 Outreach and mapping initiatives – MapGive. Find mapping opportunities at_HIU.state.gov_ and https://mapgive.state.gov
9:16 The value of partnerships and the Participatory Mapping Partnerships Network
11:51 Join a mapathon!
13:54 Laura shares her perspective on the value of open data.
18:19 Valuable partnerships – World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group, National Science Foundation Spatial Temporal Consortium and the Harvard Geospatial Center for Geospatial Approaches
19:58 Data Sources discussed
Secondary Cities https://secondarycities.state.gov/
C2M2 https://mapgive.state.gov/c2m2/
Open Street Map https://www.openstreetmap.org
Humanitarian Data Exchange https://data.humdata.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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May 17, 2022
Dr. Robert Chen and Dr. Alex de Sherbinin from the Center for International Earth Science and Information Network (CIESEN) at Columbia University
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dr. Robert Chen and Dr. Alex de Sherbinin from the Center for International Earth Science and Information Network (CIESEN) at Columbia University.
1:00 Dr. Chen talks about his career path to CIESIN.
1:42 Early research on the impact of sea-level rise.
3:35 CIESIN is born as an independent consortium.
4:30 Dr. Chen describes his current role at CIESEN.
6:10 CIESIN datasets that are openly available to the community http://www.ciesin.org/ and Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/
8:00 Partnership’s key to discovering, understanding and trusting interdisciplinary data.
9:45 Value of partnering with the WWHGD https://wwhgd.org
12:05 Dr. de Sherbinin describes climate induced migration and the challenges with measuring it.
16:00 The World Bank’s Groundswell Report(s) https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29461
19:40 Datasets used to produce climate-induced migration projections – coming soon through SEDAC https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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May 10, 2022
Dr. Melinda Laituri from Colorado State University
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sat down with Dr. Melinda Laituri from Colorado State University who spoke about her research on Secondary Cities, participatory mapping, and water security.
1:00 Dr. Laituri describes the Secondary Cities project.
2:26 Secondary Cities data https://secondarycities.state.gov/
3:45 Establishing partnerships across the Secondary Cities.
5:35 Where are the Secondary Cities?
7:10 On the ground with Secondary Cities.
8:25 Data resources https://secondarycities.state.gov/ https://hiu.state.gov/
9:05 Secondary Cities methodology used during COVID pandemic for the Cities’ COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) project. https://mapgive.state.gov/c2m2/
11:15 Understanding second and third order impacts of COVID through the C2M2 research and mapping.
11:55 Water Security – what are the services needed and at what scale to understand water needs?
13:45 Using participatory mapping to better understand water and its availability?
14:45 Where in the world will be next find Dr. Laituri?
15:25 Key things needed to better inform our future.
16:20 Dr. Laituri is no stranger to the WWHGD. Visit our event archives at wwhgd.orgto hear her presentations during “Secondary Cities and Participatory Mapping” webinar in 2016; “Mapping Water Availability and its Impact on Humans in 2020” and the 50th WWHGD Anniversary Event – focused on Planetary Health in 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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May 3, 2022
Jim Courson from the International Mission Board
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Jim Courson from the International Mission Board. Mr. Courson speaks about his work at IMB and discovering, mapping and sharing data on people groups around the world.
00:50 Mission of IMB
2:40 Why Ethnolinguistic Groups Research
3:50 How do you gather data on people groups? Ethnologue: Languages of the World
5:50 How do you map data on people groups?
7:00 Discover people groups data here - People Groups Official Web Site
9:30 What makes the “Dog’s Head” region in Northwest Brazil special?
13:18 The challenge of mapping 8,500 unique people groups found across the world.
15:09 Humanitarian relief to Ukraine.
16:05 Modeling to describe the people groups.
18:15 Use of external datasets People of India | Anthropological Survey of India (ansi.gov.in)
WorldPop :: Mapping Populations
20:30 Download IMB data here: imb Open Data (arcgis.com) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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Apr 25, 2022
Dr. Budhu Bhaduri from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
In this second episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Dr. Budhu Bhaduri from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Bhaduri speaks about his journey to become the Director of the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, the rich history of ORNL, and the value of partnering with the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD) Working Group.
5:05 Mission of ORNL and its historical investment in science (https://www.ORNL.gov)
9:10 ORNL’s impact on the Human Geography community
10:50 Value of partnership with the WWHGD Working Group
11:45 Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data Working Group (https://hifld-geoplatform.open data.arcgis.com)
14:00 WWHGD.org artifacts (https://WWHGD.org)
14:40 Partnership with ORNL Urban Dynamics Institute for the 2018 Human Geography Dimensions of Energy Access and Use Symposium (https://wwhgd.org) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message
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Apr 25, 2022
Dr. Debbie Fugate and Dr. Lee Schwartz, World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group Cochairs
In this first episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, the hosts, Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt, speak with the cochairs of the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group, Dr. Debbie Fugate and Dr. Lee Schwartz, about their journeys as cochairs of the Working Group, as well as the origins and history of the Working Group. The hosts, Dr. Fugate, and Dr. Schwartz discuss how the Working Group approaches the study of human geography and why it is such a critical unifying function.
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