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.
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.
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.
Getting Started with STAC APIs
By James Santucci on April 5th, 2021
STAC is a specification for enabling online search and discovery of geospatial assets. This post walks through getting started with a number of STAC APIs.
Cloud Detection in Satellite Imagery
By James McClain on February 8th, 2021
We compare the results of two machine learning models that detect clouds in Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and share pointers about models you can try for yourself.
Load Testing a TMS Tile Server with k6.io
By James Santucci on January 25th, 2021
k6.io provides a flexible base for load testing with a convenient scripting language, and the quickstart docs will get you pretty far, but testing with a session of TMS requests had some unique challenges.