Rethinking Geospatial for a Sustainable World - Spatial Stack with Matt Forrest

In this episode of The Spatial Stack, Matt Forrest sits down with Dr. Nadine Alameh, one of the most influential voices in geospatial and AI for Earth. With a background spanning NASA, the United Nations, and the Open Geospatial Consortium, Nadine brings a unique systems-level perspective to the urgent question: Who gets to define the map?

The episode dives into:

How AI models can fail without local context and community input

The tensions between global institutions and grassroots data efforts

The importance of open tools, inclusive standards, and rethinking what “ground truth” really means

What it will take to make Earth intelligence equitable, actionable, and trustworthy

Whether you’re building geospatial systems, training machine learning models, or working on climate and land use policy, this conversation will reshape how you think about data, power, and place.