Joshua Stevens - Visualising NASA's Satellite Imagery - MBM #31

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.

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Shownotes

• FEMA

• NASA Earth Observatory

• Tom Patterson

• Book & Podcast Recommendations:

  • Radio Lab

  • Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization

Timestamps 

00:00 - Introduction 

02:46 - Conversation Begins: Joshua Presenting Himself 

04:52 - From Photography to Computer Science 

06:14 - Joshua's Current Role: Lead Visualizer at Nasa Earth Observatory 

07:04 - Why are Visualisations Important 

08:25 - Is it Important that the Public Understands Satellite Imagery? 

11:50 - Graphic Design & Scientific Data 

16:35 - Storms: Visualisation Example 

18:20 - Deciding where to look at, which Stories to Tell 

22:18 - Collaborations: Governmental Agencies & Media 

27:20 - Accessible Designs: Colour-blindness 

31:47 - A Tangent on Data Formats: NetCDF & GeoTiff 

37:34 - Teaching 

38:54 - Tools & Methods 

42:42 - Interactive & Online Media driving different Visualisations 

46:41 - Satellite Data in the Movie & Ad Industry 

48:43 - Interactive Data 

51:02 - Advice for People Working with Scientific Data 

54:20 - Writing & Being Present Online 

55:35 - Favourite Visualisations 

57:46 - Books & Podcast Recommendations

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