Software Engineering Archives

Run-Time Type Checking in TypeScript with io-ts

By Alex Kaminsky on October 29th, 2020

In this post, we'll be using some advanced TypeScript libraries to help us stay type-safe even in the face of unknown inputs. In order to get the most from this post, I recommend having a basic understanding of TypeScript.

Clouds overtop of the area labeled as clouds.

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Three Lessons from Running an Imagery Labeling Competition

By Joe Morrison on October 9th, 2020

We joined with Radiant Earth at the Cloud Native Geospatial Sprint to run a labeling competition for non-technical folks. This resulted in over 2.3 million square kilometers mapped and lots of lessons learned.

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PySTAC 0.5.0 for STAC 1.0.0-beta.2

By Rob Emanuele and Simon Kassel on August 17th, 2020

PySTAC 0.5.0 for STAC 1.0.0-beta.2 is released! We're keeping PySTAC up with changes to the spec itself, and rounding out the library with new extensions and features. In this post, we’ll catch you up with what’s new.

Screenshot of the Global Forest Watch Pro map.

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Amazon Web Services and Amazon Rain Forests: A Software Architectural Review

By Ross Bernet on August 11th, 2020

WRI hired Azavea to perform a software architectural review to evaluate the technical organization of Global Forest Watch.

Illustration of a clipboard overtop of labeled cars in a parking lot.

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3 Tips to Optimize Your Machine Learning Project for Data Labeling

By Niki LaGrone on July 21st, 2020

Mining the knowledge and expertise of your data labeling team will improve the data quality of your machine learning project and increase your team's productivity.