Gaussian Splatting

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• AVSP – Episode 787 Transcript (docx)

News:

• DGEO at Clark
• SpatialSQL moves to general availability
• MCP expanding for geospatial 
• Geoscientists map continent-sized geostructure under Antarctica
• Russian satellites jamming GPS signals

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• Mega geocache

Topic:

• Gaussian Splats 
  • Apple releases 3D Gaussian Splats 
  • NYT R&D Guide to Gaussian Splats

Events:

• 2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 9 – 14 August,  Washington, D.C.
• Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment AGSE 2026, 21-25 September, Kumasi, Ghana 
• Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis 20th Anniversary Conference, 2-3 October, Boston, MA

Music: 

• “In This Together” by Neighbor

GIS Careers 

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• AVSP – Episode 786 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Upcoming unmanned NASA moon missions in 2026
• Spexi and Niantic Spatial deliver a drone-to-3D pipeline
• Long Island Sound Lawn Fertilizer Pollution Tool 

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• UK Geography New National Curriculum Change

Topic:

• Thoughts on The GIS Industry Has Already Split in Two

Events:

• Commercial UAV Expo: 1-3 September, Las Vegas
• CaGIS Conference – 8-11 September, St. Louis
• NACIS: 21-24 October, Milwaukee
• GeoWeek 2027: 23-25 February, Salt Lake City  call for speakers

Music: 

• Pace by Brody Myles

UCGIS

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• AVSP – Episode 785 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Grass 8.5.0
• 2026 Canadian Census Soundtrack 
• VertiGIS Acquires 1Spatial
• FME Flow and MCP

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• Historica AI Interactive Map 

Topic:

• Amy Rock of the UCGIS @ AAG

Events:

• Global Public Health and Epidemiology Congress (G-PHEC 2026): 21 – 23 September, London,UK, and online
• 17th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) – 22–25 September, York  

Music: 

• Those Days Were Ours by Saints of Valory

PIX4D

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• AVSP – Episode 784 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Sketchup, meet Claude
• ESA’s Celeste in-orbit demonstrator transmits first signal
• The Map Shop Australia closing

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• https://paleolatitude.org/

Topic:

• Pix4D @ AAG

Events:

• Commercial UAV Expo: 1-3 September, Las Vegas
• S+SNZ Conference 2026: 9-11 September, Auckland, NZ
• UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 October, Grand Forks, ND

Angela Lee of Esri

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• AVSP – Episode 783 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Artemis II

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• National Council for Geographic Education GeoCircle Virtual Meetups

Topic:

• Angel Lee, Director of Education Solutions at Esri

Events:

• GISPro: October 12-15, Milwaukee
• NCGE Annual Conference: October 16 – 18, Richmond, Virginia
• 81st SEDAAG Annual Meeting: 22 – 23 November, Tuscaloosa – Call for papers/posters.

Music: UKE Like It by Brady Grey

BayGeo Conversation

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• AVSP – Episode 782 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Spatial computing grows as an investment trend
• Satellites confirm old sailor myth

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• Financial Times (FT) Magazine special feature on mapping a changing world

Topic:

• AAG interview, Mike from BayGeo

Events:

• WV GeoCon: 1-3 June, Morgantown

Music: Way It Feels by Alt Bloom

Reflections

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• AVSP – Episode 781 Transcript (docx)

News:

• QGIS 4.0 Norrköping release
• Google Maps and Gemini
• ADA Web & Mobile Rule countdown
• CMU uses Sleep Cycle data to detect outbreaks

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• ESRI 3D interactive Dance of Continents 

Topic:

• https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28/post-gis-revisited/
• https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/03/02/when-geospatial-is-consumed-at-ai-scale/

Events:

• Louisiana Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop: 14-16 April in Lafayette Louisiana 
• ACH 2026: 24-26 June, Virtual
• 2026 ASPRS International Technical Symposium: 5-8 October, Virtual 
• GIS-PRO 2026: 12-15 October, Milwaukee

Music: Sad That I’m Still Sad by Liminal

Terrestrial Mapping

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• AVSP – Episode 780 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Google Maps Granted Access to South Korea’s Map Data
• ESA to launch Celeste LEO-PNT on March 24
• A Farewell to ArcMap
• ArcGIS Online Feb ‘26 updates
• Texas A&M and NSF NCAR release MESACLIP Earth System Dataset
• AMS responds to potential NSF NCAR closure
• Bilawal Sidhu’s WorldView

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• NYC Layers of the Past Cartographic Project 

Topic:

• Terrestrial mapping at GeoWeek
  • Esri and Pix4D
  • Topcon
  • Emesent

Events:

• GeoBusiness 2026: 3-4 June. London
• State of the Map 2026: 28-30 August, Paris
• GeoWeek 2027: 23-27 February, Salt Lake City

Contemplating conferences

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• AVSP – Episode 779 Transcript (docx)

News:

• China rolls out satellite short messages
• NV5 releases GeoAgent
• Common Space 
• How GPS Shaped the World book bought by HarperNonFiction

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• Navigate National Geographic MapMaker with a game Controller

Topic:

• Contemplating conferences

Music: Time Remembered by Jane’s Party

Thoughts on LBS

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• AVSP – Episode 778 Transcript (docx)

News:

• Dr. Gladys West passes at 95
• Ninth GPS III successfully launched
• Space Force cancels Resilient GPS project
• TikTok (US) TOS include detailed location data
• Project Genie (only available to Ultra subscribers)

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• City as a Living Laboratory (CALL)

Topic:

• 2026 thoughts on location based services

Events:

• 2026 International Conference on Geography and Travel (ICGT) April 1, Pune, India
• Geographical Association (GA) Conference: April 8-10, in Sheffield, UK 
• European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly: May 3-8, in Vienna, Austria & online
• Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM): June 22-25, in Reykjavik, Iceland

Music: Used to Know by Finn Mungo