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Screenshot of labeled satellite imagery in Raster Vision.

An Introduction to Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning

By Joe Morrison on November 5th, 2019

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

Introducing PySTAC: A Core Library for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs

By Rob Emanuele on November 4th, 2019

PySTAC is a Python library for reading, writing, and manipulating SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs. PySTAC 0.3 is now released and ready to use!

Software Engineering

GeoTrellis 3.0 Release

By Eugene Cheipesh and Ross Bernet on October 29th, 2019

GeoTrellis 3.0 includes feature additions and improvements that make it easier to read raster data from a variety of formats and sources, and support COG's.

Satellite imagery displaying machine learning labels.

Software Engineering

Azavea and CloudFactory: Partners on Quality Training Data and Social Impact

By Joe Morrison on October 8th, 2019

Read about our journey to hiring an outsourced data labeling firm and how we've found a partner in Cloud Factory.

Software Engineering

STAC: Creating an Ecosystem of SpatioTemporal Assets

By Niki LaGrone, James Santucci and Aaron Su on October 1st, 2019

STAC is creating an ecosystem of interoperable spatiotemporal assets. Learn how Azavea has contibuted and about future steps for the specification.

Spatial Analysis

Housing & Landlords: Using Open Data to Find Substandard Conditions

By Fay Walker on September 26th, 2019

Using R and QGIS to analyze substandard housing in Philadelphia with open data. We used open data to identify violations, evictions, and illegal rentals.

Featured Posts

Using the Dedupe Machine Learning Library for Cleaning and Matching Data

Is This a Crosswalk?: 5 Takeaways from Training a Data Labeling Team

An Introduction to Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning

Introducing PySTAC: A Core Library for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs

GeoTrellis 3.0 Release

Azavea and CloudFactory: Partners on Quality Training Data and Social Impact

STAC: Creating an Ecosystem of SpatioTemporal Assets

Housing & Landlords: Using Open Data to Find Substandard Conditions