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Perceived Gaps in Earth Observation
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…
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Perceived Gaps in Earth Observation
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…
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STAPI Sprint #5: 0.1 Release
We recap our most recent STAPI Sprint in Lisbon. We worked toward evolving the satellite data ordering process, and released version 0.1.
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Prioritizing Responsible AI
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…
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Sustainable AI: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Costs, and Keep Your Users Happy
Our team at Element 84 is excited about AI’s potential to help in building systems, understanding the impacts of climate change, and generally helping users access data. At the same time, we’re also concerned with the environmental impact of using this technology. Hugging Face sums up the issue well in their AI Environment Primer: Artificial…
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Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
We introduce the second iteration of our geospatial technology radar, which is designed as a resource for the community to outline impactful technologies in the space.
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Climate Unit Director Profile: Catherine Oldershaw
In this blog series, we’re profiling the new directors of our business units to provide a full picture of how we’re gearing up to make the biggest possible impact in 2024 beginning with this feature of Catherine Oldershaw, our Climate Unit Director.
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Announcing our 2023 Geospatial Tech Radar
Ahead of this year’s FOSS4G North America gathering, we’re rolling out a 2023 edition of our Geospatial Tech Radar idea, which we plan to update annually to track what’s up-and-coming in geospatial techniques, standards, data, and tools/platforms.
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Our next era: Azavea joins Element 84
The geospatial and Earth Observation communities are tight knit. As purpose-driven organizations in this ecosystem, Element 84 and Azavea share many of the same priorities and values in an industry that is often focused on positive societal impact. As of February 16, 2023, this shared focus will manifest through the organizations coming together under the…
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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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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.
