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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 […]
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 […]
Dan Pilone on the Casual Space Podcast
At the end of June, Casual Space Podcast hosted by Beth Mund, published a conversation she had with Dan Pilone, Co-Founder and CTO. The conversation covered a lot of ground (pun intended!). It was impressive that Dan was the first person she’s had on her show to talk about the data and informatics side of […]
Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs Now Available on AWS Registry of Open Data
This week, in collaboration with Geoscience Australia, we released our Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) dataset on AWS Open Data. Our collection contains all 11.4 million scenes from the Sentinel-2 Public Dataset, except the JPEG2000 (JP2K) files are all converted to COGs. Our dataset is continuously updated to mirror the growth of the public Sentinel-2 data […]
White Paper: Creating a GEDI Geo-Locator
Remote sensing instruments like NASA’s GEDI, which is mounted to the Japanese Experiment Module – Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) on the International Space Station (ISS), produce a massive amount of data and one of the tools scientists use when working with those data is a geo-locator–a geographic coordinates search engine. GEDI, launched in 2018, is the […]
Color Correction in Space and at Sea
A common theme with projects at Element 84 is bridging the gap between data collection and its presentation to end-users. With satellite imagery, there is a pipeline of processing steps used to transform raw data into the imagery we see on our computers, phones and tablets. Basic Color Correction One of the important steps in […]
Mapping with Leaflet and React
Mapping is hard, but spinning up a new app that renders maps doesn’t have to be. Here’s how you can easily get started working with maps in a new React app. Not that AAA map under your car seat Maps have been around for thousands of years, but they’ve become more complex and powerful within […]
E84 @ 2019 ESIP Summer Meeting
We’re passionate about Earth Science Data and helping to solve the challenges in that field. At this year’s ESIP Summer Meeting, we have five E84 team members speaking and moderating across six different sessions, with an additional four of us out there to chat and support the event. Here’s where you can find us if […]
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF vs the Meta Raster Format
If you are working with geospatial data visualizations you have probably heard of Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and may also have heard of the Meta Raster Format. These formats both provide efficient access to visualization data and have similar goals. The popular GDAL library supports both. So what are the differences, and when would you choose […]