Software Engineering Archives - Azavea

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MUB Monitor: Helping Water Utilities Track and Respond to Upstream Threats

By Fernando Ramirez on June 3rd, 2019

In partnership with Downstream Strategies, we created MUB Monitor - a comprehensive GIS-based tool that helps water professionals track spills, assess watershed threats, and make informed decisions.

Software Engineering

Lessons in Functional API Development from Haskell’s Servant and Http4s

By James Santucci on May 20th, 2019

As a 10% time project, we replicated a small piece of the Raster Foundry backend code in Haskell, using servant for the REST interface and postgresql-simple for database interaction.

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Software Engineering

Using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) for More Efficient Web App Architecture

By Jenny Fung on April 23rd, 2019

Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) are geoTIFFs hosted on a cloud or file server, and are optimized for remote reads. They proved useful in a recent project.

Raster Vision applied to the city of Georgetown, Guyana.

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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.

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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.