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    Julia Signell

    Catherine Oldershaw

    Mobilizing Metadata; using STAC to Manage Risk in the Reinsurance Industry

    Data doesn’t have any value unless you can use it… and trust it. Users need to quickly access data and know where it came from. This is especially true with the integration of AI, making quick access more achievable but data provenance more opaque. This is where STAC comes in. The reinsurance industry uses climate…

  • Geospatial

    Julia Signell

    Catherine Oldershaw

    Mobilizing Metadata; using STAC to Manage Risk in the Reinsurance Industry

    Data doesn’t have any value unless you can use it… and trust it. Users need to quickly access data and know where it came from. This is especially true with the integration of AI, making quick access more achievable but data provenance more opaque. This is where STAC comes in. The reinsurance industry uses climate…

  • Software EngineeringGeospatial

    Julia Signell

    Zarr + STAC

    As part of our work writing a STAC + Zarr Report for the Cloud Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide our team is exploring the partially overlapping goals of STAC and Zarr and offering suggestions for how to use them together. This effort is particularly relevant currently due to several recent developments in the space that we…

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    Matt Hanson

    STAPI Sprint #5: 0.1 Release

    We recap our most recent STAPI Sprint in Lisbon. We worked toward evolving the satellite data ordering process, and released version 0.1.

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    Lauren Frederick

    Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024

    We introduce the second iteration of our geospatial technology radar, which is designed as a resource for the community to outline impactful technologies in the space.

    Screenshot of the Element 84 geospatial technology radar featuring dots in four rings, adopt, trial, assess, and hold. The dots are in red, purple, blue, and green, and some dots have arrows pointing either in or out of the circle.
  • Software Engineering

    Matt Hanson

    Tasking Sprint #3 Recap

    The Berlin tasking sprint was a significant step forward in the documentation and details of the specification, while we also developed the foundation of an ecosystem to prove out STAPI.

  • GeospatialCode

    Preston Hartzell

    The stactools Raster Footprint Utility

    In this post we provide the context necessary for readers to create accurate raster footprints for use in their STAC metadata.

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    Pete Gadomski

    How Microsoft’s Planetary Computer Uses STAC

    We show how components of the Planetary Computer are based on both cloud-optimized formats & the STAC spec, and how this work benefits the larger community.

  • Geospatial

    Matt Hanson

    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.

  • Software Engineering

    James McClain

    The Azavea Cloud Dataset

    Azavea is releasing a dataset consisting of 32 unique Sentinel-2 tiles with cloud labels produced by humans.

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    James Santucci

    Getting Started with STAC APIs

    STAC is a specification for enabling online search and discovery of geospatial assets. This post walks through getting started with a number of STAC APIs.

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