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Company

Sara Mack

Federal Director Profile: A Conversation with Mark Reese

In late 2023, our team at Element 84 implemented an internal “business unit” structure within our project teams to loosely group client work based on industry and focus area. From the inception of this organizational change, Mark Reese took on the “Federal” business unit and continues to manage our portfolio with US federal agency clients.…

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Machine Learning Geospatial Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan

Building Conversational Interfaces for Querying and Analyzing Geospatial Data
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

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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

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Company

Sara Mack

Federal Director Profile: A Conversation with Mark Reese
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

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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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