Spatial Signals
Spatial Signals is a podcast about remote sensing, GIS, and geospatial technologies - but more importantly it’s a podcast about the people who use and apply them. This podcast is sponsored by AmericaView, the national remote sensing network dedicated to empowering Earth Observation. Your hosts are Dr. Bradley Shellito from Youngstown State University and Mr. Chris McGinty, the Executive Director of AmericaView. New episodes every Monday morning.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2025
It Took A Hi-Ranger To Carry The Instrument Around with Larry Biehl
Larry Biehl from Purdue University joins us to talk about a prophetic high school paper about computer applications in farming, the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS), Skylab, the d…
Don't Live In The Ivory Tower with Tom Mueller
Tom Mueller from the Massachusetts Bureau of Geographic Information (MassGIS) joins us to talk about Pchem ending Tom’s time as a Chemistry major, building an atlas of nursing homes, the importance o…
It's Like Learning a Bad Golf Swing with Lance Yarbrough
Lance Yarbrough from the University of Mississippi joins us to talk about an encounter with a Floyd Sabins textbook at a university book sale at a young age, examining geology through stereopairs, th…
I Ate Up Everything I Had Thrown At Me In The Geology World with Kyle Fredrick
Kyle Fredrick from PennWest University - California joins us to talk about teaching a middle-school class in college, groundwater modeling, user-friendly vs. user-surly software, his fantastic geolog…
Landsat Next - The Squared Circle, Round One
This is Round One of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Dr. Aaron Maxwell from West Vir…
The Course Catalog Was The Yellow Pages with Dana Peterson
Dana 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, spectroradiomete…
We Had Some Sensors Eaten By Cows with Kevin Czajkowski
Kevin 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 p…
I Grew Up With All The Things with Amy Logan
Amy 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…
A Different SD Than What I Was Expecting with Bruce Millett
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…
The First Digital Global Map with Bobbi Lenczowski
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, gather…
Collecting Leaf-Level Data with Donna Delparte
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…
Creating Maps One Line At a Time with Tracy DeLiberty
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 …
They Found All The Dinosaurs Already with Courtney Poirier Chicola
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 …
The PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeely
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 b…
We Need An Earth Observation Day with Rebecca Dodge
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…
Geospatial First Responders with Rodney Yantis
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 r…
An Open Source Human Being with Lindi Quackenbush
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, …
Push a Button and Map All the Sagebrush in Utah with Doug Ramsey
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,…
Where the Ocean Is On The Correct Side of the Planet with Russ Congalton
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, remot…
A Smartphone With Wings and a Propeller with John McGee
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…