Author: Lauren Frederick
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Beyond the Hype: Element 84’s Pragmatic Vision for AI in Engineering
At Element 84, we’ve always been focused on solving our clients’ most complex geospatial problems with high-quality, reliable, and scalable software. We’re excited about AI’s potential to accelerate development and allow our engineers to focus their creative energy on core problem-solving. To achieve that without sacrificing our quality and reliability, our approach is centered around…
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Beyond the Hype: Element 84’s Pragmatic Vision for AI in Engineering
At Element 84, we’ve always been focused on solving our clients’ most complex geospatial problems with high-quality, reliable, and scalable software. We’re excited about AI’s potential to accelerate development and allow our engineers to focus their creative energy on core problem-solving. To achieve that without sacrificing our quality and reliability, our approach is centered around…
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The 2025 Geospatial Tech Radar: Agentic AI, EO Embeddings, and Cloud-Native Maturity
We analyze trends and highlights from the third iteration of our Geospatial Tech Radar including Agentic AI and MCP, EO Foundation Models and Embeddings, and the solidification of Cloud-Native Geospatial.
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Prioritizing Responsible AI
AI is moving fast. It’s moving faster than we can govern and regulate it, and even sometimes faster than our understanding of its full impact. As we push the boundaries of what AI can do, everyone is scrambling to keep up. Thus, the guidance and governance around AI usage are still evolving. In this time…
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The State of Geospatial AI Heading into 2025
For the second year in a row, I spent the week after Thanksgiving in Las Vegas, immersed in AWS re:Invent. Last year’s conference left me energized and inspired— geospatial AI was just beginning to emerge as a transformative force. This year, as anticipated, AI took center stage, with a wealth of sessions dedicated to its…
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Sustainable AI: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Costs, and Keep Your Users Happy
Our team at Element 84 is excited about AI’s potential to help in building systems, understanding the impacts of climate change, and generally helping users access data. At the same time, we’re also concerned with the environmental impact of using this technology. Hugging Face sums up the issue well in their AI Environment Primer: Artificial…
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Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
We introduce the second iteration of our geospatial technology radar, which is designed as a resource for the community to outline impactful technologies in the space.
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Failing Your Way To Greatness
Earlier in my career, I was at an all-hands division meeting where we were reviewing the quarterly performance of the division and at least some of it was not good. The division manager, with whom I had never interacted, out of frustration asked the hypothetical to the group during an all-hands meeting: “Do you wake…