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#22: Aravind Ravichandran: Any Company With Any Infrastructure Could Use Earth Observation

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NewSpaceVision

Technology

44 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Aravind Ravichandran is one of earth observation’s leading voices. Having founded Terrawatch Space and driven its renowned podcast and newsletter, Aravind’s work sits at the forefront of the remote sensing industry – helping to demystify and push the boundaries of earth observation, satellite data and applications. In this episode, find out how he entered the field thanks to a chance encounter, pursued his newfound passion at the International Space University and how he views the growth of newspace – sharing exclusive industry insights on topics like climate, insurance and his predictions for the space sector going forward.


Check out Aravind's podcast: podcast.terrawatchspace.com

Subscribe to his newsletter: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com


This podcast was sponsored by LiveEO. For more information on how Earth observation can help your company, contact: 

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0:00.0

So do you say that on the hardware side there is less innovation needed for weather than on the software side?

0:09.0

No, no, absolutely not.

0:10.0

That's basically tomorrow's innovation.

0:12.0

Yeah, that's basically tomorrow's innovation.

0:14.0

You know, it's crazy when I learned that there is only one radar in space today.

0:18.0

If you deep dive into the topic a little bit more, we are not tracking rainfall

0:20.9

data properly at all. So in the US, I think about 20 states are making decisions on infrastructure

0:26.6

based on rainfall records from 25 years ago because there's no radar.

0:31.6

All right, lift off, the clock is started and innovation

0:39.8

we're going to the world

0:42.3

Lift-off, we have a lift-off.

0:45.5

Hello and welcome to the NewsSpace Vision podcast

0:48.0

where we discuss New Space Technology,

0:49.9

finance and innovation with executive founders

0:52.6

and more exciting people from the startup and

0:54.7

new space ecosystem.

0:56.7

I'm Stam Shivara.

0:57.8

And I'm Daniel Seidel.

0:58.7

And together we are the founders of the Earth Observation Company Lifeo and New Space Vision.

1:03.3

Today we are very excited to welcome Aravind Ravid Ravishand.

1:07.0

He's the founder and industry expert at TerraWatch.

1:10.1

I will start with a very big question.

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