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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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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?…
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Top 7 Reasons to Make Your Excel Spreadsheet into a Web-Based Application
We’ve seen a trend in requests from potential clients. Organizations are bringing us complex, built-in-house Excel spreadsheets and asking us to convert them into web-based decision-support tools to make their data more useful, user-friendly, and secure.
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Announcing the Winners of Map Across America: A National Redistricting Competition
DistrictBuilder, Azavea’s free redistricting tool, recently held a competition in partnership with the Public Mapping Project to encourage more participation in the redistricting process.
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Partnering with Probable Futures to Visualize Climate Change Data and Inspire Action
With Probable Futures, Azavea designed a web-based tool that informs the public on the local impacts of climate change and drives action.
