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A Tool to Highlight Underfunded and Under-resourced Communities: A Peek Behind the Technical Curtain of Headwaters Economics’ Rural Capacity Index
To address the disparity in access to funding resources, we partnered with Headwaters Economics to develop the Rural Capacity Index.
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A Tool to Highlight Underfunded and Under-resourced Communities: A Peek Behind the Technical Curtain of Headwaters Economics’ Rural Capacity Index
To address the disparity in access to funding resources, we partnered with Headwaters Economics to develop the Rural Capacity Index.
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Cloud Optimized Formats: NetCDF-as-Zarr Optimizations and Next Steps
At Element 84 we help groups rethink how they approach technology and are particularly focused on supporting migration to the cloud. As we moved from local hard drives to the cloud, there are things we took for granted when it came to file formats. On your own hard drive reads are cheap and latency is…
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Dan Pilone on the Minds Behind Maps Podcast
Earlier this month, Dan Pilone, our Co-founder and CEO spent a few hours with Maxime Lenormand at the Minds Behind Maps Podcast. The conversation spans a variety of topics from Dask and Xarray, game theory and open source software, through people-focused growth and Element 84’s hiring process. Dan Pilone is the CEO and co-founder of…
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Jeff Siarto on the MapScaping Podcast
Since 2010, we’ve been working with scientists and data providers at NASA, NOAA, and USGS to help improve their remote sensing data systems through better processing pipelines, metadata, and improved user experiences. A large part of that effort was aimed at improving time-to-science—reducing the amount of time spent downloading, processing, and preparing data versus actually…
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Our Top 3 Netlify Use Cases: Deciding When to Use Netlify
Netlify is a platform for web developers and designers that offers hosting and serverless backend services. Here, we provide Azavea’s top three use cases for it and its benefits for our software engineers and designers.
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Create a Windows Application Without Windows
All of our developers are on Mac or Linux, but we can still do Windows work using .NET Core. Using this open-source technology we can develop applications for organizations that are restricted to a Windows-based environment and .NET technologies.
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Machine Learning to Drive Urban Resilience: Mapping Tree Canopy with the World Bank
As one of seven pilot programs to address environmental issues in Africa, Azavea trained student workers to label satellite imagery using GroundWork and created a machine learning model to identify tree canopy.
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2022 Trends in Geospatial
Azavea’s CEO Robert Cheetham provides 6 trends he foresees in geospatial this year. These predictions are grounded in Robert’s personal experience and perspective as Azavea CEO.
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How a Small Tech Company Has Adjusted to the Hybrid Work Environment: Insights from 2021
2021 brought a lot of challenges to tech companies and many have concerns leading into 2022. Considering how much we learned from 2021, as the year came to a close we gathered learnings from our colleagues to help us work effectively in 2022. We wanted to share some of these tips and plans for this…
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Deconstructing Analysis-Ready Data
The 4th Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Workshop was held virtually in October 2021. Consisting of ten minute lightning talks packed into 1 hour sessions, participants from government and industry presented developments in “Analysis Ready Data”. Each day followed a specific theme such as calibration and validation, standards, time series, optical, SAR, and vegetation. The problem?…