Open Source Archives

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.

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!

Software Engineering

GeoTrellis 3.0 Release

By Eugene Cheipesh and Ross Bernet on October 29th, 2019

GeoTrellis 3.0 includes feature additions and improvements that make it easier to read raster data from a variety of formats and sources, and support COG's.

Software Engineering

STAC: Creating an Ecosystem of SpatioTemporal Assets

By Niki LaGrone, James Santucci and Aaron Su on October 1st, 2019

STAC is creating an ecosystem of interoperable spatiotemporal assets. Learn how Azavea has contibuted and about future steps for the specification.

Software Engineering

Using the Dedupe Machine Learning Library for Cleaning and Matching Data

By Justin Walgran on August 30th, 2019

To deal with issues of apparel facility list data quality and scale quickly and efficiently we need a machine learning tool that can capture the knowledge of domain experts, find commonalities in jumbled text, and confidently compare large lists without the need to compare each individual entry.

OAR map overlaid on top of hands sewing a garment.

Software Engineering

Connecting Data and People with the Open Apparel Registry

By Deb Boyer on August 7th, 2019

Since its launch on March 28, the Open Apparel Registry (OAR) has grown to include over 18,300 facilities in 92 countries. We’ve already heard of a few fascinating use cases where data from the OAR contributed to decision making by brands and facilities.