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Software Engineering
Casey Cesari
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.

Software Engineering
Rachele Morino
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.
Software Engineering
Lewis Fishgold
Automated Building Footprint Extraction (Part 3): Model Architectures
Reviewing model architectures for building footprint extraction including naive approaches, model improvement strategies, and recent research.
Software Engineering
Lewis Fishgold
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.
Software Engineering
Lewis Fishgold
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.
Software Engineering
Casey Cesari
14 Years of Helping to Manage Stormwater in Philadelphia
A recap of Azavea’s partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department to support Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters plan.
Software Engineering
Adeel Hassan
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.
Software Engineering
Vijay Lulla
Benchmarking Zarr and Parquet Data Retrieval using the National Water Model (NWM) in a Cloud-native environment
In order to benchmark efficiency, we take a deep dive into Zarr and Parquet data retrieval to compare performance on various time scales.
Software Engineering
Casey Cesari
How to code-split GeoJSON layers for your MapBoxGL.js React apps
A recent project required us to implement an interactive map of the United States with a custom counties layer. This is what we learned.
Software Engineering
Adeel Hassan
Change detection with Raster Vision
This blog explores the direct classification approach to change detection using our open-source geospatial deep learning framework, Raster Vision, and the publicly available Onera Satellite Change Detection (OSCD) dataset.