SentinelHub EO Browser is, as the name suggests, a browser based explorer of Sentinel imagery
You can even download subsets of the data for free (requires login though). It's one of the simplest ways to get started exploring Sentinel imagery IMHO
Iain Woodhouse is a Professor of Applied Earth Observation at the University of Edinburgh, the author of multiple books & course on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and one of the best people to explain radar remote sensing with decades of experience teaching but also working in the industry.
My conversation with Hamed Alemohammad, who was the previous Executive Director of the Radiant Earth Foundation, a Non-Profit focused on building open machine learning tools & datasets for satellite imagery through projects like the ML Hub & STAC, Spatio Temporal Asset Catalog.
Joshua Stevens is the Lead Visualiser at NASA's Earth Observatory. Him & his team works on making satellite imagery more accessible to the general public by making visualisation of common imagery like Landsat or MODIS.
Steve Coast is the Founder of OpenStreetMap one of the most successful open source projects; started in 2004 and now used everywhere from Apple's Maps to Mapbox and even Pokemon Go recently. Steve has worked at places like Microsoft, TomTom, Telenav & Digital Globe.
We talk about the future of mapping and Tech in general as well as how Steve thinks maps will disappear.
I want to be excited about this, but at the same time I think I'll take a big dose of healthy skepticism for now.
I've been really intrigued with what started a couple of years ago with Clubhouse, and then Twitter jumping on to do Spaces but the discover tab has been pretty awful for me - a mix of random NFT projects I car nothing about and general crypto stuff, with very little actual suggestions about things I would want to listen to. I felt like the novelty wore off quite quickly.
I am quite active on Twitter & run a podcast, so I'm still glad that companies are trying to take a crack at podcast discoverability but until it's there, I'm not convinced
A clip from my interview with Jeffrey Lewis, Open Source Intelligence Researcher at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey on how they used Satellite Imagery, Tok Tok & Google Maps to see the Invasion of Ukraine as it was happening
My interview with Jeffrey Lewis, a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and one of the most influential people in the Open Source Intelligence Community.
For example, him & his team saw Russian Troops heading towards Ukraine using Google Maps 1h before the invasion happened.
I do feel like social media platforms are lowering the barrier to entry to “put stuff out there” in a way that is way more appealing the to average person. I do wish personal websites would come back but I don’t really see a path towards that unfortunately.
There are tools out there that make building a website easier but a lot of them are either really technically challenging (I’m talking coding your website, HTML, JS, React) or paid (Squarespace) which I get the sense just can’t compete with creating a “free” account on a social media platform if all you want to do is share some photos.
I would really like personal websites to take off but I’m not quite sure I see a valid reason or incentive for individuals to do so?
You can even download subsets of the data for free (requires login though). It's one of the simplest ways to get started exploring Sentinel imagery IMHO
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/