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10 Years into Our Charitable Contributions Program
Ten years ago we started a charitable contributions program. We developed a program that would increase our impact and expand employee ownership.
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10 Years into Our Charitable Contributions Program
Ten years ago we started a charitable contributions program. We developed a program that would increase our impact and expand employee ownership.
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Ethical Machine Learning for Disaster Relief: Avoiding the Second Disaster
Machine learning on satellite imagery is revolutionizing disaster relief. What does ethical machine learning mean in this field?
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Betting Big on the Spatiotemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Standard
We’re investing heavily in the STAC specification – including building a STAC-compatible Python library and server as well contributing to the Label Extension. We’re hoping this work will help accelerate adoption across the geospatial engineering community more broadly.
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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…
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An Introduction to Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning
Today, the availability of satellite imagery still far outpaces our capacity to analyze it, but machine learning and tools like Raster Vision are helping.
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Introducing PySTAC: A Core Library for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs
PySTAC is a Python library for reading, writing, and manipulating SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs. PySTAC 0.3 is now released and ready to use!
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GeoTrellis 3.0 Release
GeoTrellis 3.0 includes feature additions and improvements that make it easier to read raster data from a variety of formats and sources, and support COG’s.
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IAM What IAM And That’s All That IAM
Testing Your IAM Policies As the complexity of your AWS environment grows, the need for more specific Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, and policies increases. These IAM policies govern not only the users that are logging in to the AWS environment, but also the permissions that are granted to services, Lambda functions, EC2 instances, and…
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Mapping with Leaflet and React
Mapping is hard, but spinning up a new app that renders maps doesn’t have to be. Here’s how you can easily get started working with maps in a new React app. Not that AAA map under your car seat Maps have been around for thousands of years, but they’ve become more complex and powerful within…
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Serverless Devise with Jets
Over the past few years, serverless design has taken the cloud community by storm. It is hard to ignore–with promises like “pay only for what you use”, “no security patching”, and “infinite scalability”. Being on the cutting edge can have drawbacks too, which in this case is what I would describe as an absence of…