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.--- Episode Sponsor: Geoawesomeness & UP42EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---About Joshua:TwitterLinkedInWebsiteShownotesFEMANASA Earth ObservatoryTom PattersonBook & Podcast Recommendations:Radio LabThematic 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 Feel free to reach out! - Website- My Twitter- Podcast Twitter- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work