Tartu Geo, a podcast about geography and geoinformatics

Tahmin, a student in our Geoinformatics for Urbanised society MSc programme, and I have been working hard over the last months to record, edit, and polish on our podcast project: a GIS-themed educational podcast from our Department of Geography (Geograafia osakond) here in Tartu, Estonia.

Introducing: Tartu Geo, a podcast about geography and geoinformatics related fields along with education, research, history, philosophy, ground breaking ideas and innovation. The show will also host guests from different sectors who will share insight about their research and work. We try to bring up new episodes every 15 days with exciting and newer topics of geoinformatics and geography. Stay tuned and happy listening.

https://tartugeo-podcast.com/

Please bear with us, we are still amateurs :-D The sound quality in some guest interviews is not great, but overall it is getting better and better as we progress. We have already several episodes lined up, and the podcast can be loaded from all the convenient places like iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and of course you can add the feed also directly to your podcast app.

Please let us know any suggestions or advice that can help us grow. Like always comment, like and subscribe.

Some really nice geospatial podcasts to enlighten your day

Geodorable: https://geodorable.com/

• If you like maps and location then you might find listening to a couple of middle-aged guys from the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand) chat irreverently about geospatial stuff just the ticket!

Isn't That Spatial: http://isntthatspatial.net/

• "Isn't That Spatial" is the podcast bringing everyday geography and urbanism into your earspace.

The Mappyist Hour: http://themappyisthour.com/

• Geographer and Geo types talking about how incredible their profession is "after hours"

The Scene From Above Podcast: https://www.geoger.co.uk/podcast

• The #scenefromabove podcast aims to present an informal podcast looking at the world of modern remote sensing and Earth observation, fuelled by their passion for all things raster and geospatial: a mix of news, opinion, discussion and interviews.

GeoGedöns (in German): http://geogedoens.de/

• Ein Podcast von zwei enthusiastischen Satellitennavigationsbegeisterten, die gerne Technik testen und Spiele spielen, die sich am Handy bzw Smartphone abspielen und für die meist eine Lokalisation via Satelliten nötig ist.

Radio OSM (in German): http://podcast.openstreetmap.de/

• Berichte und Neuigkeiten rund um OpenStreetMap, ​die freie Wiki-Weltkarte

Everyday Geo: http://soundcloud.com/everydaygeo

• JBGeoPro - Joe Bob Penor (United States), Soundcloud Podcast

A VerySpatial Podcast: http://www.veryspatial.com/

• Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies. The VerySpatial blog is intended to be a location for the hosts and participants of A VerySpatial Podcast to link to interesting sites and articles on Geography and related information.

Copernicus info session November 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia

On the 6th of November 2017, several Geoinformatics staff member of the Department of Geography and our international MSc in Geography/Geoinformatics students of the University of Tartu jointly attended the Copernicus Info Session in Tallinn.

The event was held in Tallinn in the conference rooms of the Building of Ministries as the eleventh in a series of national Copernicus events of the European Commission. We had several international visitors as well national estonian officials. For example we had the chance to meet with members of the Estonian Landboard, ESTCube and other innovative satellite data processing companies, and even the Estonian National Library.

One really interesting presentation was summarising the Sentinel mission really well:

After the event about the European Copernicus programme finished we used the "field trip" to visit the Tallinn old town, and we we did a nice walk in the event.

Online references to the event:

http://www.copernicus.eu/events/copernicus-training-and-information-session-estonia

and

http://copernicus.eu/infosession-estonia