Raster Foundry Archives - Azavea - Beyond Dots on a Map

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.

Aster Vision badge of a rocket shooting into space overtop a photograph of the night sky.

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.

Machine learning that identifies fields overtop of the original geography.

Software Engineering

Mapping Africa: Crowdsourced Machine Learning

By Justin Polchlopek on February 21st, 2019

We leveraged our ability to process raster imagery, our open sources libraries, and our knack for machine learning to map agricultural fields in Africa.