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Company Geospatial
Robert Cheetham
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.

AWS Geospatial Open Source UI/UX
bradleyandrick
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.
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.
Company
Robert Cheetham
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.
Company
Robert Cheetham
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.
Company
Stacy Deininger
Making Gender Data Actionable
Azavea partnered with Facebook and Ladysmith to make an engaging platform that makes data from a massive gender survey actionable.
Company
Deb Boyer
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.
Spatial Analysis
Simon Kassel
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.
Company Machine Learning
Joe Morrison
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.
Software Engineering
Niki LaGrone
STAC: Creating an Ecosystem of SpatioTemporal Assets
STAC is creating an ecosystem of interoperable spatiotemporal assets. Learn how Azavea has contibuted and about future steps for the specification.