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Selecting a Geospatial Mastodon Server for Individuals and Businesses
At Azavea, interacting with and contributing to the geospatial community is a perpetual highlight of our work. For many years, Twitter has represented a hub of activity within the professional geospatial sphere, and we’ve enjoyed interacting with community members and sharing our work through the platform. In light of the uncertain future of Twitter, both…
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Selecting a Geospatial Mastodon Server for Individuals and Businesses
At Azavea, interacting with and contributing to the geospatial community is a perpetual highlight of our work. For many years, Twitter has represented a hub of activity within the professional geospatial sphere, and we’ve enjoyed interacting with community members and sharing our work through the platform. In light of the uncertain future of Twitter, both…
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How to print a MapBoxGL.js map to a PDF in React
To generate a printable document that is well-formatted, we break down the implementation process to print a Mapbox map to a PDF in React.
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The Bread and Butter of Software Development: Informing My Learning Through Professional Baking
Azavean Rachele Morino outlines her career transition from baking to software engineering, and where the two professions overlap.
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Automated Building Footprint Extraction (Part 3): Model Architectures
Reviewing model architectures for building footprint extraction including naive approaches, model improvement strategies, and recent research.
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Automated Building Footprint Extraction (Part 2): Evaluation Metrics
In the second part of our Automated Building Footprint Extraction series, we review some evaluation metrics for building footprint extraction.
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Automated Building Footprint Extraction (Part 1): Open Datasets
In the first installment of this three-part blog series, we summarize some of the latest research on automated building footprint extraction.
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14 Years of Helping to Manage Stormwater in Philadelphia
A recap of Azavea’s partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department to support stormwater management through Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters plan.
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Tasking Sprint
Two weeks ago, right before SatSummit, we hosted a “Satellite Tasking API Sprint” at our office in Alexandria. The goal was to initiate a conversation around standardizing how users submit tasking requests to data providers. The companies attending, made up of data providers, analytics users, and developers, represented a wide and deep knowledge base around…
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Our 10% Time Program: How We Encourage Innovation Internally
We outline our 10% time program in detail, highlight some notable examples and themes, and describe the impact of the program.
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A Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Workflow for Geospatial Data
In this blog we demonstrate how an active learning approach can boost machine learning model performance with the human-in-the-loop workflow.
