The landscape of geospatial AI is rapidly evolving. Many organizations are building LLM-powered solutions that tackle complex geospatial problems and answer sophisticated questions about our planet. These agentic approaches allow LLMs to autonomously select from toolsets that include geospatial tools, Earth Observation (EO) catalogs, and EO data processing capabilities. The result? Systems that can process…
The landscape of geospatial AI is rapidly evolving. Many organizations are building LLM-powered solutions that tackle complex geospatial problems and answer sophisticated questions about our planet. These agentic approaches allow LLMs to autonomously select from toolsets that include geospatial tools, Earth Observation (EO) catalogs, and EO data processing capabilities. The result? Systems that can process…
If you accept that we are living through the Tyranny of the Chunk, then you might be wondering how we got to this place. Who created the first chunks and what was their motivation? As we explore the history of different data formats we’ll see recurring patterns of thinking around how much information to consolidate…
We discuss our attempt to understand chunks and chunking more deeply including where we are today and where we might go from here.
At Element 84, our team looks forward to the Spring season and the return of a busy conference schedule every year. Our time attending, presenting, and learning at conferences helps us to feel connected and plugged into trends in the geospatial industry and beyond. It also allows us to receive feedback on our team’s latest…
Just to be upfront and get it out there: no. Despite what you may have heard, Zarr is not (yet) a replacement for the Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format. Zarr is great for Level 3 and Level 4 n-dimensional data cubes. COG is great for Level 1, Level 2, and other non-data-cube rasters. Enthusiastic Zarr users…
As part of our work writing a STAC + Zarr Report for the Cloud Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide our team is exploring the partially overlapping goals of STAC and Zarr and offering suggestions for how to use them together. This effort is particularly relevant currently due to several recent developments in the space that we…
We recap our most recent STAPI Sprint in Lisbon. We worked toward evolving the satellite data ordering process, and released version 0.1.
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…
We discuss how AI and user experience methodologies might serve to connect scientists and researchers back to important data and technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.