Episode One: Mapping in the Time of COVID-19

April 7, 2020

AGS President Dr. Marie Price, AGS Chairman Dr. Christopher Tucker, and AGS Councilor Dr. Joshua Campbell join AGS’s Katherine Cann to discuss the role of geospatial tools and technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Geographers and geospatial analysts have mobilized to visualize the spread of the disease in real time, for the first time in history. The group discusses five of the most impactful geospatial tools and data collection methods we’ve been seeing in the media: dashboards, satellite imagery, telemetry data, the internet of things, and crowdsourcing.

To learn more about the resources and industry leaders discussed during the podcast, please check out our Episode One Resource Guide below.

Episode One Resource Guide

Minute during podcast – Resource Link

07:19 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
08:21 – ESRI
08:41 – John Hopkins Dashboard
10:05 – Health Map Dashboard
11:03 – New York Times Dashboard
12:13 – Mapbox
12:45 – nCoV19 Live @AviSchiffmann
15:11 – Maxar
15:51 – Planet Lab
16:50 – Orbital Insight
16:51 – Descartes Labs
18:43 – Unacast Social Distancing Scoreboard
18:16 – Tectonix / X-Mode @TectonixGEO
21:22 – Lawfare Blog
21:51 – EthicalGEO Pod
23:30 – Kinsa Health Weather Map
24:17 – Heat Surveillance Cameras
28:07 – YouthMappers
28:09 – OpenStreetMap
28:10 – Mapillary Blog
31:00 – OurStreets Supplies
31:35 – FulcrumApp / Location Leverage