Chris and Krishna talk about validation as a practical part of developing geospatial analytics, focussing on their personal experiences mapping oil palm and land cover at scale.

A central theme in throughout this conversation is the use of auxiliary geospatial products, science and human intuition to validate maps.

(00:00 ) Introduction, what is validation?

(02:30 ) Chris talks about mapping oil palm using Sentinel-1

(25:00 ) Krishna talks about global land cover mapping using Sentinel-2

(51:00 ) What tools do Krishna and Chris use for validation. (Krishna loves QGIS)