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Emerging trends in geospatial: May 2024
In this post, we highlight a few of the trends in geospatial our team noticed at SatSummit, and we’re outlining how we plan to integrate these trends into our work.
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Emerging trends in geospatial: May 2024
In this post, we highlight a few of the trends in geospatial our team noticed at SatSummit, and we’re outlining how we plan to integrate these trends into our work.
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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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Introducing Earth Search Console: An AWS Open Data Exploration UI
In this blog, we’ll detail how Earth Search Console leverages FilmDrop, and what Console components we are most excited about.
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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.
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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.
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1% For Open Source: Financial Support for Tools We Use
We donate a portion of our profits each year to support open source projects nominated by our team.
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Making Gender Data Actionable
Azavea partnered with Facebook and Ladysmith to make an engaging platform that makes data from a massive gender survey actionable.
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Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry
We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.
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How We Built a National Hospital Dataset for Coronavirus Relief
We pulled data from disparate hospital data sources to create a comprehensive national dataset of the hospital system for the COVID-19 response, using geocoding, proximity matching, and fuzzy string matching.
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An Introduction to Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning
Today, the availability of satellite imagery still far outpaces our capacity to analyze it, but machine learning and tools like Raster Vision are helping.
