Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Without Local News, I Can’t Do My Job

By Stephanie Thome on December 5th, 2019

The Cicero Team often relies on local news websites to keep our elected official data up to date. However, local news is on the decline and websites are harder to navigate. This post discusses the impact the lack of local election results may have on civic engagement.

Company

10 Years into Azavea’s Charitable Contributions Program

By Robert Cheetham on December 3rd, 2019

Ten years ago we started a charitable contributions program. We developed a program that would increase our impact and expand employee ownership.

Software Engineering

Ethical Machine Learning for Disaster Relief: Avoiding the Second Disaster

By Niki LaGrone on November 25th, 2019

Machine learning on satellite imagery is revolutionizing disaster relief. What does ethical machine learning mean in this field?

Software Engineering

Betting Big on the Spatiotemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Standard

By Joe Morrison on November 22nd, 2019

We're investing heavily in the STAC specification - including building a STAC-compatible Python library and server as well contributing to the Label Extension. We're hoping this work will help accelerate adoption across the geospatial engineering community more broadly.

Screenshot of labeled satellite imagery in Raster Vision.

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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!