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Geospatial FM
by Wilfred Waters
Obsessed with geospatial foundation models, broadcasting in geospatial and compounding via publicly listed geospatial equities.
Episodes
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GISMap.online
My guest is Silas Toms, GIS supervisor at PG&E, which covers the largest land area of any utility in California. Silas has 20 years in geospatial, including time at Zillow, and runs GeoMeetup in SF. Yes, he was the one wearing that tracksuit. The next one is tomorrow. We cover why utilities…
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How to Make an ETF with Kevin T Carter, Founder of EMQQ Global and EMXETF
Kevin T. Carter is founder of a couple of investment firms, EMQQ Global and EMXETF. You’ve probably heard of the Magnificent 7. These are stocks from what the West calls Developed Markets. Kevin talked about applying the same idea to emerging markets, he found The MAG 3. Then we moved on to…
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Claude Native GIS with Dekart
Today’s episode is with the founder of Dekart, Volodymyr Bilonenko. We cover WHY he made Dekart, the relationship with Kepler, who he competes with and some discussion of specific geospatial needs of mobility companies like Wayve. He then steps through use of a new Claude skill he made called...
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Mines With PlanetSapling
Ankur Shah, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-s-803497126/, is founder and CEO of PlanetSapling (https://planetsapling.com/). He talks us through a dataset of 3,000+ mines he's found the location of, and ownership information about, worldwide. He also takes us through related analyses he's been...
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GE0500 Weekly Wrap and Starting a New Quant Agri Portfolio
Weekly wrap for 7 days to 7/26/2026 and promo for Quant Agri (https://quantagri.substack.com/) with Ryan Kmetz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankmetz/). I will be incorporating Quant Agri GEOINT-based commodity trading performance going forward, based on a $1,000 starting position.
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marimo
marimo is the fastest growing Python project with 22,000 Github stars. Fantastic episode today, covering: 0:00 - Intro 0:54 - Favorite keyboard 2:35 - What Coreweave's GPUs mean for marimo, such as solving the Travelling Salesman Problem 8:13 - What is the one thing Jupyter Notebooks always gets...
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Mine Tailings Dams with John Metzger of Asset Assurance Monitoring
Guest: John Metzger (LinkedIn), Founder of Asset Assurance Monitoring (Website). "I don't know how, but I recognized it was one of my children. My friend rescued Nicolas, and I thought: Oh my God, at least I managed to catch one." These were the words of a father fleeing the 2015 Bento Rodrigues...
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GEO500 Weekly Wrap + Japan Focus
I am joined by Robert Cheatham of Japan Earth Observer (https://www.japanearthobserver.com/) for a GEO500 Weekly Wrap. Provisionally, also the PhysicalAI Weekly Wrap. I'll think about it. GEO500 weekly roundup sheet:...
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Japan Earth Observer
Today's guest is Robert Cheatham https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcheetham/ and we are talking about Japan Earth Observer, https://www.japanearthobserver.com/. This is a newsletter on the space, Earth observation, and geospatial industry in Japan. It is based on a fantastic effort by Robert to...
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Listening for Whales with NV5 Geospatial
Mark Baumgartner is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Back in 2011 he and Sarah Mussoline published a paper on how to use computer science to classify whales from sound recordings. This episode is about an evolution of that software by Atle Borsholm from NV5 Geospatial...
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Rebel Strategy Lab
Karolina Sarna is founder of the wonderfully named Rebel Strategy Lab. She also writes and codes. On that basis alone I would want to record an episode. Even better though, she is an alumnus of the European Space Agency and Iceye, meaning she has a huge amount to contribute on the subject of…
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GIS at a Nigerian Power Utility and Earth Observation at Proforce Galaxies
Abdulfatai Sanusi is a geospatial developer at Proforce Galaxies. He tells us the story of an MS Azure to Esri Enterprise migration at a power utility that covers several states in Nigeria. He then moves on to the next phase of his career at Proforce. They are an earth observation satellite…
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QuantAgri - predictive agricultural insights
Ryan Kmetz is back to talk with us about https://quantagri.substack.com/. This initiative began in January 2026. It is about analyzing satellite data to predict the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. Ryan proposes a novel approach and shares some eye raising...
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Openclaw for Geospatial Monitoring Dashboards and Behavioral Investing
This was quite the episode! We return for Round 2 with Nelson Roque. He is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. He walked us through OpenClaw. Nelson is an incredibly useful guest because he is able to cover both podcasts I have run - The Behavioral Investor...
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Geoharbor - Hearding the Data Engineering Cats
Geoharbor is a solution from SketchMyView. It is a way to avoid notebook hell. This is done through all data engineers on a team using a common framework. I recommend a watch to see Rakesh showing it in action.
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Seerab Technologies on How to Win Uber Tech Prizes
We are privileged today to share an episode with a Pakistani geospatial firm, Seerab Technologies. Zulkifil is a co-founder and has been with the company nearly 10 years. They have their own platform for real estate developers to help customers understand the context of proposed property…
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Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 3/3
This is episode 3/3 with Alex Merose about his thoughts on weather foundation models. He is a member of the technical staff at Open Athena. In this episode, Alex steps through system characteristics of weather foundation models and how we can approach building them. Toward the end, the episode...
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Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 2/3
This is episode 2/3 with Alex Merose about his thoughts on weather foundation models. He is a member of the technical staff at Open Athena In this episode, Alex steps through ML weather models, their history and how they work. Links to items discussed: ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5):...
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Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 1/3
This is episode 1/3 with Alex Merose about his thoughts on weather foundation models. He is a member of the technical staff at Open Athena. In this episode, Alex steps through the background on doing weather prediction, from early efforts around a century ago to numerical and physics based…
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GEOINT and World Models with Mark Munsell
Mark Munsell is Distinguished Fellow of Artificial Intelligence at Lindenwood University and Executive Director at GeoSTL. He is also Former Chief AI Officer at the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. As such, he has rich experience for us to mine. We used it to navigate the AI hype and...
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UN Letter of Urgent Appeal to AECOM about NEOM
The Geospatial FM podcast topic profile: 1. Data engineering for geospatial 2. GEOSPATIAL FOR WORLD MODELS (foundation models are so last week) 3. GEOSPATIAL IN PREDICTION MARKETS (spatial finance is so 2022) 4. In this context, stocks, globally 5. Human rights outcomes of these stocks Item 5 is...
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Voting in the Geospatial Economy
Ryan Kmetz is Research Director at IQSpatial. We are privileged to have his time in this episode. He talked with us about economic conditions faced by geospatial workers in the US. We reflected on the emergence of a protest movement, the No Kings march a couple of weekends ago. We observed how…
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Apache Sedona and SedonaDB in Microsoft Fabric
0:00 - Motivation for Microsoft to compete with Esri 1:20 - Who is Rakesh and data engineering services of SketchMyView 6:40 - Deploying a land and planning GIS for the UK government with Microsoft Synapse 22:25 - Is there a similarity between Synapse and Fabric? 26:26 - ACID compliance, delta...
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LocationIntelligence.US
Having started his career at USGS in 1980, Joe Francica is a veteran of the geospatial industry. He has a lot of experience in publishing, for example as Editor In Chief of (the now shuttered) Directions Mazagine…and he has been host of On Point with Korem. Joe’s latest venture is...
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GeoRiskAI
Arham Ansari confronts some challenges that most of us in the liberal democratic Western world do not. For example, in a small town near Delhi in northern India he only has 8-10hrs of power per day. There had also been a blackout the whole 3 days prior to the first day of recording the episode....
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RomoGIS on AI
Frank Romo is an inspiring leader in geospatial. He runs several educational programs with school students across the country such as in The Bronx and recently St Louis. The focus of episode was therefore on how AI is being used to facilitate better outcomes for students. Frank gave examples from...
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Floodmapp
Juliette Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Floodmapp joins us to continue the coverage of how the geospatial industry is responding to the flood season. This is after an episode with Shelly Klose about True Flood Risk a couple of weeks ago. I should also highlight the episode on flood models with...
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Azure Maps
Clemens Schotte is Senior Program Manager at Azure Maps. It is pronounced "Claymens SuHotte". Microsoft has a few geospatial offerings: Microsoft Bing Maps is the most well known amongst the public. It is a web-based mapping service offering street maps, aerial imagery, and route planning for...
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Vietnam Enters The Narrow Corridor
Tue (Matt) Le-Quang is a Data Reporter at VnExpress.net. He spent time with us today analysing and mapping the upgrade of Vietnam's administrative boundaries. Quoting from his publication VnExpress (Google Translate): "After the reorganization of 34 provinces and cities, the number of…
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UN Mappers
The podcast is picking up the pace in terms of meeting my heroes. UN Mappers is an open spatial data volunteering programme run by the UN. Michael Montani stepped through the part of the UN he works for and some conflicts or disasters his team is currently helping on. We were also given a look at...
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True Flood Risk
At the beginning of the year I conducted an exhaustive review of all the #LAfires geospatial responses. This turned into a series of podcast episodes culminating in a discussion with Jamon van den Hoek. A theme was synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to detect building damage. There were some side...
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AlphaGeo
Michael Ferrari is Chief Scientific and Investment Officer at AlphaGeo. We focused on how resilience varies across geographies and what this means for long term regional investability. Accompanying this discussion is their web app. This is confronting. If you change the time slider to "End of...
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Free The Map
Border Professor Henk van Houtum published Free The Map in 2024. He sent it to me whilst I was still living in London last year. Shows how long this has been in the making as I've since migrated to the States. Kind of fitting, given the book frequently mentions the EU migration crisis and…
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Resilient Navigation and TIming Foundation
Appropriately, I am publishing today's episode from an airport - JFK. This is because it is about the positioning, navigation and timing vertical, specifically about how GPS can be spoofed and jammed, affecting air travel safety. Also appropriately, the recording with Dana Goward, President of...
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Wildflow.ai
I came across Sergei Nozdrenkov through a post on LinkedIn saying: "Hey friends, I’m looking for a founding engineer and founding AI research scientist to build multimodal foundation models for natural ecosystems, starting with 3D coral reef data." He is the founder of Wildflow. This is a...
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BigGeo
Upping the cadence here as the backlog is growing again and I need to get things out whilst they’re fresh. Today we’ve got BigGeo on the chopping block, a Canadian cloud based geospatial company. Brent Lane, CEO, was an inspiring speaker because (showing my bias here) he had another story about...
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Bigman Geophysical
As usual there is a connection through a number of episodes going on here. Back when interviewed Stephanie May, she introduced me to global base maps made by various tech companies. I jumped at the opportunity to continue the theme when I came across Jordan Regenie's write up of his involvement…
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Blackshark
Brett Clark is Director Global Sales at Blackshark. Blackshark is an incredible company. They are responsible for the global 3D world of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Now they have a system called ORCA™ HUNTR. This is a no-code environment enabling users—with little to no coding or AI background—to...
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Conflict Ecology Lab
Conflict Ecology is a geospatial research lab led by Jamon Van Den Hoek, Associate Professor of Geography at Oregon State University. I have been privileged to profile many leaders in our industry through this podcast. None, until now, routinely appear on TV and have the work of their lab used in...
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Cecil
Continuing the EO Summit coverage, another attendee was Alex Logan, co-founder and CEO of Cecil. This is a nature data platform which began with trees. They focus on metadata, more here. It was a fascinating discussion. I am new to this space and there is a strong overlap with those in carbon...
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Q&A with Ursa Space CEO Adam Maher
I was privileged to be granted access as a member of the press to EO Summit by the convener, Aravind (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravindravichandran/). I am now delivering on my duty providing coverage for you here. Adam Maher (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-maher-17969731/) is CEO and Founder...
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US Artificial Intelligence Institute
Mike Spaeth is Global Vice President at US Artificial Intelligence Institute (https://www.usaii.org/). He has a career in environmental, sustainability and governance analytics at Moodys before moving on to Maxar then Earth Daily Analytics. Here he gained experience in geospatial foundation…
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CARTO
Gideon Singer is a Solutions Engineer at CARTO. He is another guest from Geospatial Risk Summit. Gideon gave a technical presentation on the first day about processing pipelines in CARTO. It was a sign of how far the platform has progressed since I began using it over a decade ago. Back then it…
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HSR.health
Ajay K Gupta is Chief Executive Officer of HSR.Health. This is a company in the Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies – 2025 Edition from Geoawesome (https://geoawesome.com/global-top-100-geospatial-companies-2025/). I voted on the selection panel 2022-2023 but not the year HSR was voted in.…
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Psychology Research On AI
Upcoming Domain ChangeDue to launching Geospatial FM, I will change the domain from www.geospatial.money to www.geospatial.fm. This will occur over the next few days. Just a heads up. You will still receive emails as normal.Nelson Roque Nelson Roque is Assistant Professor, Human Development and...
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Nearmap
Nearmap is a name near and dear to our hearts in geospatial. They were a rocketship as a stock before Thoma Bravo took them private end of 2022 (https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-nearmap-ltd). Chris Sams is Government Product Solutions Leader at…
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High Speed Rail: Atlanta to Orlando with Miles Kauffman
Miles Kauffman, Masters Of City and Regional planning student at Georgia Tech, came on the show to tell us about an Atlanta to Orlando high speed rail study he is conducting. It was such a privilege to connect with him after attending a Georgia Geospatial Association (https://gageospatial.org/)...
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Novi
Next #GISchat is with Michael Bartholomeusz about NOVI. ✒️ https://open.substack.com/pub/geospatialindex/p/novi-and-a-new-venture-geospatial 📽️ https://youtu.be/4z40_uU8gIs Novi describes themselves as an edge compute and space infrastructure company. They advise one can obtain these benefits:...
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Free The Map Part 8, NEOM Part A
Why I am reporting on the NEOM human rights situation and publicly traded engineering consultancies involved. It is an introductory episode for the final stretch of this series. NEOM is a collection of projects in a northern province of Saudi Arabia accompanied by violations of Article 17 of the...
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Free the Map Part 7, Kuwait Part F
⛔️ this ep again mentions suicide. Covering all loose ends from my recollections about working at Amec Foster Wheeler in Kuwait. Finally got to a point where I can move on from #GISchat about Kuwait. Discussed: 0:00 - 3:24 - Emotional impact 3:24 - 3:42 - Agenda 3:42 - 22:50 - Use of ChatGPT to...
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Obsessed with geospatial foundation models, broadcasting in geospatial and compounding via publicly listed geospatial equities.
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Wilfred Waters
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