Tartu Geo Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alex Kmoch and Tahmin Sitab
TartuGeo is a podcast about geography and geoinformatics related fields along with education, research, history, philosophy, ground breaking ideas and innovation. Host Alexander Kmoch and Tahmin Sitab try to talk about different topics of the fields. 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.
For today’s episode we talk with Martin Loidl from the University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics, about Sustainable Urban Mobility. Martin has completed his education with a PhD in Applied Geoinformatics from the University of Salzburg. He is leading the Mobility lab at the ZGIS.
- Mobility Lab webpage
- Martin’s profile at University of Salzburg
Welcome to today’s episode of Tartu Geo. The podcast for geography and GIS brought to you from the Department of Geography of the University of Tartu, Estonia.
For today’s episode with with Tõnis Kärdi, self-proclaimed hobby GIS specialist, we dive into Open Source Geospatial Software.
Important links:
- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation - OSGEO
- QGIS - A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System
- What is Open Source? https://www.osgeo.org/about/what-is-open-source/
- OSGEO projects (aka open source geospatial software projects): https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/
- Ian Turton’s presentation: Earning Your Support Instead of Buying it, Tõnis mentions in this episode
Tõnis is an OSGeo Charter Member and has helped co-organize FOSS4G conferences over the last years. He is also in organising team for this year’s FOSS4G Europe conference:
FOSS4G Europe 2024 Tartu, Estonia, 1-7 July
Funding disclaimer:
This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.
In today’s episode we talk with Terje Trasberg, who is the team lead for the Population Statistics Team at Statistics Estonia. The mission of Statistics Estonia is to reflect the situation and changes in the society and offer information important for demographic, social, economic and environmental development of Estonia. Today we will get to know more about the aim, plans and future of Statistic Estonia from Terje Trasberg.
Links as discussed in the episode:
- Website for Census results: https://rahvaloendus.ee/en
- some GIS data: https://rahvaloendus.ee/et/loendus-2021/metoodika-ja-kvaliteet/haldusuksuste-tasemed-ja-ruumiandmed
- Statistics Estonia website: https://www.stat.ee/en
- Statistics Estonia data : https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat
- Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF) internship program: https://www.balticamericanfreedomfoundation.org/programs/professional-internship-program
Funding disclaimer:
This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.
We are starting a new season, a fresh selection of interesting interviews in the geosptial realm of Estonia. We have a new team member as well, welcome Sonia.
Today we talk with Lisett Luik, co-founder of Arbonics, a climate-tech company helping European landowners store more carbon and protect biodiversity. Lisett has a diverse career background across the globe and came back to Estonia to make the world a better place.
Funding disclaimer:
This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.
Today, I talk with Jaan Saar, Head of Digital Construction at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in Estonia, about Digital Twins and the Baltic Geospatial Technology Conference (BalticGIT) 2022
Today, Andres Kasekamp from the Board of EstGIS and I talk with Edgar Sepp, from the Autonomous Driving Lab, University of Tartu, about smart solutions, self-driving cars, and the Baltic Geospatial technology Conference (BalticGIT) 2022
Today, Tanel Jairus from the Board of EstGIS and I talk with Romeo Durscher from Auterion about drones and the Baltic Geospatial technology Conference (BalticGIT) 2022
Today we talk with Kreet Solnask and Tanel Jairus from the Board of EstGIS, the Estonian Geoinformatics Society, and organizers of the Baltic Geospatial technology Conference (BalticGIT) 2022
Today we talk with Jaak Laineste, who is the Director of Research at Sixfold, Europe’s leading provider of logistics visibility services.
Today we talk with Gaspar Anton, who is the founder & CEO of the on-demand mapping technologies company EyeVi Technologies from Tartu.
Today we talk with Erki Saluveer, founder and CEO of the location and mobility data analytics company Positium from Tartu.
Today we talk with with Kaupo Voormansik and Tanel Tamm from the radar remote sensing company KappaZeta here in Tartu.
Today we talk with Martin Jüssi, Director Consulting Services - Space and Earth Observation from CGI here in Tartu.
Today we talk with Cultural Geographer Associate Professor Taavi Pae from our Department of Geography here at the University of Tartu.
We are happy to come back with our second season after the long summer break. We start this episode with Margarita Oja who is a fresh BSc graduate Geography from the University of Tartu.
In today's episode we want to talk about GIS tools that have helped in covid-19 data analysis in many ways. This current situation has forced us to think about space in many ways.
In this episode we continue to introduce the Chair of Human geography and regional planning to you and we will talk about the two main research aspects and collaboration activities related to the Chair of human geography. And at the end we will talk with Kadri Leetma, who is a senior researcher in human geography in a short interview.
We are now moving towards Human Geography. In this episode we interview Professor Tiit Tammaru, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and head of the Chair of Human Geography and Regional Planning.
We talk with Barabra Hofer, who is Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg in the Department of Geoinformatics - the famous Z_GIS - about teaching, EO4GEO and curriculum development.
We are introducing the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography. We present an overview of the Chair and the activities and we managed to get three representatives, which we interview during the episode: Professor Tõnu Oja, who is the Head of the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography, senior researcher Dr Evelyn Uuemaa, who is leading the Landscape Geoinformatics Lab, and also became recently head of the Department of Geography, and the PhD student Bruno Montibeller. We apologise for the sound quality during some of the interviews, we promise to improve that in the next episode :-)
We interviewed Topi Tjukanov from Gispo Finland about the pros and cons of Free and Open Source GIS software vs commercial GIS Software
The students in the Geoinformatics MSc course Spatial Data Studio were debating about the pros and cons of Open source GIS software vs commercial GIS Software
Tartu Geo is a podcast for geography and GIS lovers brought to you from the Department of Geography of the University of Tartu, Estonia.