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Unleashing the Power of Geospatial AI: Elevating our Machine Learning Offerings
We outline recent projects tackling complex challenges through the lens of Machine Learning and discuss how our past experience will shape future work.
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Unleashing the Power of Geospatial AI: Elevating our Machine Learning Offerings
We outline recent projects tackling complex challenges through the lens of Machine Learning and discuss how our past experience will shape future work.
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SpatioTemporal Asset Tasking Sprint #2 Recap
In this blog we recap the latest SpatioTemporal Asset tasking sprint that we hosted with industry leaders to generate new community standards.
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What electric plane range is needed to electrify US domestic air travel?
To explore the potential for future electric air travel, we consider the potential electric plane ranges needed to accommodate US domestic air travel.
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STAC: A Retrospective, Part 1
In the first installment of this two-part retrospective, we dive into the history of STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog) and outline its history.
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FOSS4G Nashville 2022
I attended and gave a talk at FOSS4G Nashville 2022. This was a short, 1.5 day hybrid conference with about 30 in-person attendees and an unknown number of folks watching and giving presentations online. Howard Butler gave a keynote talk entitled “Serve data, not services,” and my talk was titled “STAC software, now and looking…
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AWS re:Invent 2022 Mega Recap
This month our geospatial team traveled to Las Vegas to attend AWS re:Invent and talk about FilmDrop—our cloud-native, geospatial processing suite. Over the course of the week, we had a chance to meet tons of great people and spend time in talks and labs learning as much as we could. We’ve put together a mega…
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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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A Software Engineer’s First Experience with Geospatial: Data, Tooling, and STAC
About a year ago, I started on a new project at Element 84 working with geospatial imagery. In this blog post, I will document some things I learned on my journey. My hope is these lessons learned will help encourage more generalist software engineers to start experimenting with geospatial data and tooling. I had never…
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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…