Dr. Frank Kelly was recently appointed director of the USGS's EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Editor in Chief Joe Francica spoke with Dr. Kelly on the mission of EROS especially in light of impending budget cuts. Kelly also provided his insights on the relationship with the commercial earth observation satellite providers, and expectations for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission and Landsat 8.

Audie Cornish talks with Thomas Haupt, respiratory disease epidemiologist for the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. He's the lead author of the study that helped uncover the source of a mysterious and large uptick in Legionnaires' disease cases. The study, "An Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease Associated with a Decorative Water Wall Fountain in a Hospital" was published in the online journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Looking for that unique Christmas gift for the cartophile? Listen in as Editor in Chief Joe Francica speaks with Ben Sheesley of Axis Maps. Axis Maps' Typographic Maps uses letterpress, a manual process for printing maps of major cities. He is one of the founders of this Chicago-based mapping and geospatial tech company. Francica sought out Sheesley because Axis Maps says that the letterpress printing process hasn't changed much since the days of the Gutenberg press.

The point of the study is to understand why, at the precise moment, an addict decides to use. Epstein says if you ask someone about a relapse after the fact, he or she is going to have trouble recalling it accurately. "People, whether it's someone who's addicted to drugs or anyone else in the world, make up stories that sort of explain their behavior," he says. "But if you could've been monitoring them in real time, you would see that things didn't happen quite the way they remembered."

This podcast was recorded at a press briefing delivered by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long at the GEOINT Symposium 2011 in San Antonio, Texas on October 17, 2011.

Editor in chief Joe Francica sits down with U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation president Keith Masback to get his impressions on the growth prospects for the industry and for the GEOINT Symposium in general. The interview was conducted on October 18, 2011 in San Antonio, Texa.

Many college campuses have emergency telephones marked with flashing blue lights. They don't help students like Claudia Folska. She's blind. Folska is working with the city of Denver to make the area more navigable, doing things like adding a sound component to the emergency phone booths.

There are parts of Sudan too dangerous and too remote for journalists to get to—meaning they can't cover some of the human rights abuses that have plagued the country. The Satellite Sentinel Project uses, you guessed it, satellites to shed light on what's happening on the ground in Sudan. The project is, in part, the brainchild of George Clooney. (Yeah, that George Clooney.) Brooke talked with the Satellite Sentinel Project's Jonathan Hutson.

In this interview, Editor in Chief Joe Francica speaks with Al Leidner of Booz Allen Hamilton. Back in 2001, Leidner, was the director of New York City's GIS project at the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications or DoITT and the person most responsible for coordinating geospatial technology support during the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11.

"Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries." This is the story of current state of the U.S. patent system and the new business models it has created. While the story if not specifically about geospatial patents, this goes no in our world, too.