Open Source Archives

Selecting a Geospatial Mastodon Server for Individuals and Businesses

By Robert Cheetham and Sara Mack on November 29th, 2022

At Azavea, interacting with and contributing to the geospatial community is a perpetual highlight of our work. For many years,...

Company

Azavea’s 10% Time Program: How We Encourage Innovation Internally

By Robert Cheetham on October 3rd, 2022

We outline our 10% time program in detail, highlight some notable examples and themes, and describe the impact of the program.

Software Engineering

Benchmarking Zarr and Parquet Data Retrieval using the National Water Model (NWM) in a Cloud-native environment

By Vijay Lulla, Lewis Fishgold and Terence Tuhinanshu on September 22nd, 2022

In order to benchmark efficiency, we take a deep dive into Zarr and Parquet data retrieval to compare performance on various time scales.

Design

Building a fast-loading and responsive application using Next.js

By Jeff Frankl on August 24th, 2022

Due to Next.js' ability to populate webpages in remote areas, we used it to build a decision-support tool that conveys landslide risk.

Company

1% For Open Source: Financial Support for Tools We Use

By Robert Cheetham on August 17th, 2022

We donate a portion of our profits each year to support open source projects nominated by our team.

Software Engineering

Change detection with Raster Vision

By Adeel Hassan on April 18th, 2022

This blog explores the direct classification approach to change detection using our open-source geospatial deep learning framework, Raster Vision, and the publicly available Onera Satellite Change Detection (OSCD) dataset.