Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Blacksburg, VA Finds Their “TurboTax™ for Climate Vulnerability Assessments” in Temperate

By Stacy Henderson on April 17th, 2019

This case study showcases how Temperate is uniquely poised to walk cities through the confusing process of conducting a climate vulnerability assessment.

Districts of Philadelphia overlaid on top of a photo of a child swinging with the sky and playground in the background.

Spatial Analysis

Scoring Philadelphia’s City Council Districts for Children’s Health and Well-being

By Daniel McGlone on April 16th, 2019

Scoring Philadelphia City Council districts on assets and risks using a weighted spatial analysis model in R and Python.

Raster Vision applied to the city of Georgetown, Guyana.

Software Engineering

Raster Vision 0.9 Release Candidate

By Lewis Fishgold on April 15th, 2019

This release of Raster Vision includes bug fixes, an easier setup, improved performance, and the ability to train models off of labels in OSM.

Aster Vision badge of a rocket shooting into space overtop a photograph of the night sky.

Software Engineering

Aster Vision – A New Open Source Framework for Deep Learning on Astrospatial Imagery and Space Exploration

By James Santucci on April 1st, 2019

Aster Vision is an open source machine learning library for analyzing huge troves of astrospatial data and finding habitable planets around nearby stars.

Software Engineering

Introducing the Open Apparel Registry

By Deb Boyer on March 28th, 2019

We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Apparel Registry, an open source global map of garment producing facilities.

Software Engineering

The Power of Types in Idris

By Peter Caisse on March 11th, 2019

Idris is a pure, statically-typed functional language with a powerful type system. Let's explore writing code in Idris using type-driven development and interactive editing.