Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Partnering with Probable Futures to Visualize Climate Change Data and Inspire Action

By Jillian Long on November 29th, 2021

With Probable Futures, Azavea designed a web-based tool that informs the public on the local impacts of climate change and drives action.

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The Azavea Cloud Dataset

By James McClain on August 2nd, 2021

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

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Improving City Transit Networks through Data and Public Policy

By Zoë Cohen on July 21st, 2021

Using open source data and easily customizable software, Azavea worked with PeopleForBikes to improve city transit networks.

Software Engineering

Introducing Loam: A Client-Side GDAL Wrapper for Javascript

By Derek Dohler on May 3rd, 2021

We're launching a library called Loam. Loam allows GDAL to be used in client-side code in a web application. Loam wraps a version of GDAL compiled to WebAssembly and makes the GDAL API and utilities available to Javascript running from within a web browser.

1976 Synthetic Aperture Radar image of Willow Run Airport and vicinity, representing 15-foot (5 meter) resolution.

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Labeling SAR Imagery for Machine Learning: A Beginners Guide

By Niki LaGrone on April 27th, 2021

SAR imagery is having a moment. In this blog we explore what exactly it is, why it is so special, and tips for labeling it.

Images of imagery overtop of grid paper.

Software Engineering

Introducing Raster Vision 0.13

By Adeel Hassan on April 26th, 2021

This release presents a major jump in Raster Vision's power and flexibility. The newly added features allow for finer control of the model training as well as greater flexibility in ingesting data.

Featured Posts

Cloud Detection in Satellite Imagery

This Month We Learned — February 2021

Partnering with Probable Futures to Visualize Climate Change Data and Inspire Action

The Azavea Cloud Dataset

Improving City Transit Networks through Data and Public Policy

Introducing Loam: A Client-Side GDAL Wrapper for Javascript

Labeling SAR Imagery for Machine Learning: A Beginners Guide

Introducing Raster Vision 0.13