Location Matters
A podcast by NGIS. Valuable insights into the geospatial industry with expert discussions and opinions.
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Key things to consider in your GDA2020 strategy
Do you have to understand everything about geographic information systems to listen to this podcast? Nah, as long as you get the GIS(t) of it! On today’s Location Matters episode, we’re joined by the Manager of SLIP Location Services, Kylie Middleton, Senior Account Executive and Business Development Lead at NGIS, Krystle Dobson, and Senior GIS…
Building great maps with dynamic data sources
Happy Tuesday to our favourite Location Matters listeners! On today’s episode we have two new voices on the podcast, Senior Developer at NGIS, Clinton Kimsing and Cloud Solutions Architect, Brendan Downes. Brendan and Clinton discuss how organisations are combining static and dynamic data sources, how data pipelines work, the differences between cloud providers and how…
It’s our 50th episode of Location Matters!
We can’t believe we’ve reached the milestone of 50 episodes of the Location Matters podcast! We are completely shocked and blown away by the support of our listeners and how the podcast has grown over the past two years. We have come a long way since Adam Mullett pioneered the podcast back in 2018 and…
Spatial finance: Investing wisely using location technology
On this week’s episode of Location Matters, we’re chatting to the General Manager of EO Data Science, Sam Atkinson and Marketing Manager at NGIS Australia, Sarah Butler. We dive into spatial finance – What it is and how financial practices and organisations can use spatial technology to monitor, plan and mitigate risk across their assets…
All things InSAR with 3vGeomatics
Welcome back to another episode of Location Matters! On today’s episode we jump into the world of InSAR, also known as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar with our friends over at 3vGeomatics. Our Marketing Manager, Sarah Butler sits with General Manager at EO Data Science, Sam Atkinson and (virtually with) the Chief Technology Officer at 3VGeomatics,…
How can marketers leverage their location data?
On this week’s episode of Location Matters we dive into the world of location intelligence in marketing with Marketing Manager (and usual podcast host), Sarah Butler and CARTO team lead at Liveli, Dion Fleming. We discuss how marketers are using location intelligence platforms and spatial data to help glean insights into buying behaviour of their…
What’s this $3 million program?
We have another cracker Location matters episode this week covering the Group of Earth Observations and Google Earth Engine program winning projects. Today we unpack the process behind choosing the winners, our favourite projects and how countries can use Earth Observation technology for cases such as disaster management. We’d like to welcome, Executive Director at…
Communicating Indigenous culture through maps
Happy Tuesday! On this week’s episode of Location Matters, we have Andrew Dowding from the Ngarluma traditional owner group and Managing Director at Winyama, and Merindah Bairnsfather-Scott, Noongar woman that was born and raised on Whadjuk Boodja country and a GIS Analayst at Winyama. We dive into how Indigenous people are using maps to communicate…
A deep dive into neural networks
Welcome back to season two of Location Matters! On today’s episode, we discuss neural networks – What they are? What sorts of problems can be solved using neural networks? How important is having a good training dataset? And finally, how often do marketers and salespeople misuse and abuse the term ‘AI’ (artificial intelligence) when discussing…
