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Data Science Software Engineering

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Three lessons learned

In part two of this blog series reflecting on our work with Cirrus, we discuss three core lessons that we uncovered.

Software Engineering ->

Data Science Software Engineering

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Three lessons learned
Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

If AI Is Going to Task Satellites, We Need Standards
Software Engineering Cloud Architecture

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Reflections on five years spent building an open-source data orchestrator
Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Matt Hanson

AI Coding and the Future of Open-Source Geospatial Software

Geospatial ->

Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

If AI Is Going to Task Satellites, We Need Standards
Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Matt Hanson

AI Coding and the Future of Open-Source Geospatial Software
Machine Learning Geospatial Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan

Exploring AlphaEarth Embeddings
Software Engineering Geospatial

Jarrett Keifer

Julia Signell

Metadata makes the data format: metadata storage and representation across array formats

Machine Learning ->

Machine Learning

Jason Gilman

Brian Andres

Adeel Hassan

Queryable Earth Demo Update: Now with Change Detection!
Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Matt Hanson

AI Coding and the Future of Open-Source Geospatial Software
Machine Learning Geospatial Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan

Exploring AlphaEarth Embeddings
Company Design Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Matt Hanson

Adeel Hassan

Sara Mack

The 2025 Geospatial Tech Radar: Agentic AI, EO Embeddings, and Cloud-Native Maturity

Open Source ->

Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

If AI Is Going to Task Satellites, We Need Standards
Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

STAC: A Retrospective, Part 2 (Why STAC was Successful)
Open Source Company Software Engineering

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #5: 0.1 Release
Open Source AWS Geospatial

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #4: Interoperability for Satellite Data Ordering

Cloud Architecture ->

Software Engineering Cloud Architecture

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Reflections on five years spent building an open-source data orchestrator
Open Source AWS Geospatial

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #4: Interoperability for Satellite Data Ordering
Machine Learning Cloud Computing Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan

Building a queryable Earth with vision-language foundation models
Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

Nathan Zimmerman

Using GDAL with EMR-serverless for large-scale data processing

Design ->

Company Design Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Matt Hanson

Adeel Hassan

Sara Mack

The 2025 Geospatial Tech Radar: Agentic AI, EO Embeddings, and Cloud-Native Maturity
Design

Catherine Oldershaw

Designing risk visualizations: why appropriate complexity matters
Machine Learning Design

Jason Gilman

Sean Malone

Sara Mack

Generating truly useful solutions to real problems with the help of user experience and AI
Design

Philipp Schmitt

Enhancing accessibility in a wildfire risk web application

Data science ->

Data Science Software Engineering

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Three lessons learned
Software Engineering Data Science Geospatial

Terence Tuhinanshu

Using Kerchunk to make NOAA’s National Water Model Dataset more accessible
Cloud Computing Data Science Geospatial Remote Sensing

Patrick Quinn

Cloud Optimized Formats: NetCDF-as-Zarr Optimizations and Next Steps
Data Science Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

Deconstructing Analysis-Ready Data

Company ->

Company Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Beyond the Hype: Element 84’s Pragmatic Vision for AI in Engineering
Company Design Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Matt Hanson

Adeel Hassan

Sara Mack

The 2025 Geospatial Tech Radar: Agentic AI, EO Embeddings, and Cloud-Native Maturity
Geospatial Company Software Engineering

Dan Pilone

Sara Mack

Perceived Gaps in Earth Observation
Open Source Company Software Engineering

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #5: 0.1 Release

News ->

Company Design Geospatial News Open Source Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
Geospatial Company News

Robert Cheetham

Announcing our 2023 Geospatial Tech Radar
News Culture

Dan Pilone

Our next era: Azavea joins Element 84
Conferences Geospatial

Pete Gadomski

FOSS4G Nashville 2022

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