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the cloud platform for weather and climate data teams
https://earthmover.io/
๐ง Icechunk 2 is now available in alpha: Move/rename nodes without rewriting, shift chunks without consuming I/O, write metadata at the repo level, and so many performance improvements. Check out
@rabernat.bsky.social
and
@seabass.bsky.social
's post to get the full list!
about 1 month ago
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Today
@rabernat.bsky.social
is at the
@nationalacademies.org
in DC participating on a panel about governance models for Earth data with
@ecmwf.int
,
@esipfed.bsky.social
,
@wmo-global.bsky.social
and more: we only wish we all could attend "Future Directions for Earth Observations and Stewardship"
about 1 month ago
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Xarray, Zarr, and Icechunk together offer the best all-around developer experience for working with tensor data in the cloud- AND best-in-class performance for I/O bound workloads. Check the performance benchmarks
@rabernat.bsky.social
posted on our blog:
earthmover.io/blog/i-o-max...
about 1 month ago
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Earthmover is hiring a Rust engineer! Great team, fully remote and open to international candidates- but please please don't send us the AI version of your resume, we already have more than enough ๐ถ
jobs.gusto.com/boards/earth...
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Careers at Earthmover
https://jobs.gusto.com/boards/earthmover-c191f956-e6b8-4a82-9373-5a2d4ee8b815
about 2 months ago
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Wildfire season may be abating, but our need to understand future scenarios has not: Come join CTO
@jhamman.bsky.social
Thursday morning for a workshop: Predicting cloud native wildfire risk with the Earthmover platform:
m.earthmover.io/predictingwi..
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2 months ago
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Today, napari users canโt fully leverage Xarrayโs labeled metadata, as slider names, units & dimensions often get out of sync. Thatโs changing. At SciPy 2025, napari, Xarray & CellProfiler devs began a collab to build true metadata-aware visualization across sciences.
earthmover.io/blog/scienti...
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Scientific Data Visualization with Xarray and Napari - Earthmover
Ian Hunt-Isaak Xarray Community Developer Tim Monko Neuroscience PhD & napari community manager This blog was also published on the xarray blog and the napari blog. TL;DR Making Napari and Xarray work...
https://earthmover.io/blog/scientific-data-visualization-with-xarray-and-napari
2 months ago
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For climate predictors and weather analysts: You didn't actually miss the workshop "Replicating official NYC climate risk predictions from ERA5 using Arraylake and Icechunk"- we moved it to this Thursday, October 30! Join us:
m.earthmover.io/replicatingo..
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2 months ago
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For climate predictors and weather analysts with
#climateweekNYC
FOMO: We will reprise our hands-on workshop, โReplicating official NYC climate risk predictions from ERA5 using Arraylake and Icechunk," online this Thursday, October 23 at 9AM EST: join us!
m.earthmover.io/replicatingo...
3 months ago
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Need to put your Icechunk or Zarr data on a map in minutes? Watch this demo to see how xpublish-tiles renders cloud-stored arrays directly into interactive MapLibre maps โ no preprocessing needed.
youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
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Wicked Smaht DEMO: Dynamic Map Tile Rendering from Icechunk to Mapbox with xpublish-tiles
YouTube video by Earthmover
https://youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
3 months ago
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In case you missed it: Tomorrow,
@deepakcherian.bsky.social
will give a live demo that will take you from Zarr/Icechunk to Mapbox/MapLibre with a click of a button! Build faster, smoother maps with no pre-processing using the Earthmover platformโs latest feature: Tiles.
m.earthmover.io/wickedsmaht
3 months ago
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WHOI scientist Iury Simoes-Sousa built a groundbreaking ocean eddy dataset... that took 10 minutes to query. With Icechunk in the cloud, itโs now 10 seconds -- a huge step forward for open, cloud-native ocean science.
earthmover.io/blog/from-10...
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From 10 Minutes to 10 Seconds: How Woods Hole Scientists used Icechunk to Optimize Ocean Data Access - Earthmover
Iury Simoes-Sousa Postdoctoral Investigator, Physical and Computational Oceanography Note: this is a guest post by Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute scientist Dr. Iury Simoes-Sousa Among the many wa...
https://earthmover.io/blog/from-10-minutes-to-10-seconds-how-woods-hole-scientists-used-icechunk-to-optimize-ocean-data-access
3 months ago
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Meet
@rabernat.bsky.social
,
@jhamman.bsky.social
and more of the Earthmover team at our
#ClimateWeekNYC
events. PSA: the hands-on tech workshop Wednesday and panel on Thursday still have capacity, but are filling up fast.
4 months ago
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A fortuitous start to
@climateweeknyc.bsky.social
: our $7.2M seed round makes the news!
techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/e...
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Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data | TechCrunch
Earthmover found new customers when it started building tools for companies to analyze the output of weather models. The startup has now raised a $7.2 million seed round.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/earthmover-wants-to-become-the-snowflake-of-weather-and-geospatial-data/
4 months ago
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#ClimateWeekNYC
is here- and there's a hands-on technical workshop with
@rabernat.bsky.social
at the Geospatial Risk event on Wednesday afternoon at St. John's (Manhattan): "Open Data in Applied Risk Analysis." Here's the link to register:
www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-works...
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Tech Workshop: Open Data in Applied Risk Analysis
NYC Climate Week events by Geospatial Risk!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-workshop-open-data-in-applied-risk-analysis-tickets-1537124152719?aff=oddtdtcreator
4 months ago
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#ClimateWeekNYC
is almost upon us, as is the "What is the future of AI Weather Forecasting?" panel with
@rabernat.bsky.social
,
@juliangsf.bsky.social
,
@mikepritchard.bsky.social
, Google, Sorcerer and NVIDIA on Tuesday, September 23. Come join us!
luma.com/svimvi2y?tk=...
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What is the Future of AI Weather Forecasting? Climate Week NYC ยท Luma
A panel of AI Weather experts from Brightband, Earthmover, Google, NVIDIA, and Sorcerer will discuss the future of AI weather forecasting, and answer questionsโฆ
https://luma.com/svimvi2y?tk=KjrQ4C
4 months ago
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Climate Week NYC is coming fast, and there's a slew of events that CEO
@rabernat.bsky.social
willl be at: register now for events
@brightbangtan.bsky.social
and
www.geospatialrisk.com
are organizing. See
m.earthmover.io/events
for the list, including a hands-on workshop and the relaunch of GeoNYC!
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4 months ago
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When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021, freezing temperatures, still wind, and cloud cover converged into one of the most severe power crises in U.S. history. It was a stark reminder to energy markets that weather can move billions. Frequent forecasters/ modelers: please join.
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From Weather Extremes to Trading Signals
See how modern data workflows let meteorologists deliver market-moving insights to traders with speed and precision.
https://m.earthmover.io/webinar-weather-extremes-to-trading-signals
4 months ago
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Zarr is great for big multidimensional dataโbut not for collaboration. Our latest post by Lindsey Nield shows how Icechunk adds Git-like transactions + version control, so teams can safely share and scale Zarr workflows.
earthmover.io/blog/multi-p...
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Multi-Player Mode: Why Teams That Use Zarr Need Icechunk - Earthmover
Icechunk brings Git-like version control to Zarr. Ensure atomic updates, consistent reads, and scalable collaboration for shared datasets.
https://earthmover.io/blog/multi-player-mode-why-teams-that-use-zarr-need-icechunk
5 months ago
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Thousands of radar scans, unified as one dataset. In his latest post, Alfonso Ladino-Rincon introduces Radar DataTree: a model that makes radar data analysis-ready, scalable, and versioned for cloud workflows.
earthmover.io/blog/radar-s...
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Radar DataTree: Transforming thousands of scans into a single cohesive model - Earthmover
From structure to scale, radar needs a model that organizes complete collections as time-aware, cloud-native datasets. In our second post, we looked at how new standards and open-source tools are tran...
https://earthmover.io/blog/radar-scan-datasets-time-aware-cloud-native
5 months ago
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August updates: How to access 50 years of ERA5 data with Earthmover, the Icechunk 1.0 release, and an invitation to our August webinar: How To Turn Weather Radar Archives into Usable Science with Xarray DataTree and Zarr
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August Newsletter
๐ 50 Years of ERA5 Access in Earthmover: The Arraylake / Icechunk edition is an analysis-ready dataset that retains only the single-level surface fieldsโ18 hourly variables such as 2 m temperature, 10...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/august-newsletter-earthmover-s2tdc/?trackingId=FluqQ9%2FsQm2mm88UJOTJLg%3D%3D
5 months ago
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๐ก From Raw Scans to Structured Science โ Radar Data Gets a Standard In our latest blog post, Alfonso Ladino-Rincon explores the progress made with FM-301/CfRadial 2.1, the World Meteorological Orgโs official global data standard for weather radar and lidar.
earthmover.io/blog/from-fi...
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From Files to Datasets: FM-301 and the Future of Radar Interoperability - Earthmover
At Earthmover, weโre interested in weather radar data for two reasons: Weโre obsessed with data like thisโwhich doesnโt fit into either traditional relational databases or into the standard โgeospatia...
https://earthmover.io/blog/from-files-to-datasets-fm-301-and-the-future-of-radar-interoperability
5 months ago
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Dr. Wendy Bohon
5 months ago
Are you a maritime professional who witnessed the recent tsunami in California (7/29/25)? If so, please consider filling out this survey. Thanks!
survey123.arcgis.com/share/76979d...
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 2025 - Tsunami Emergency Reconnaissance - Maritime
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky July 2025 Tsunami Emergency Reconnaissance Maritime Questionnaire
https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/76979db33f2641d7bb3cb81da2010761?portalUrl=https://cadoc.maps.arcgis.com
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Today at SciPy 2025 we released Icechunk 1.0, an open source package and specification that enables database-style transactions against petabyte-scale array datasets using only cloud object storage as infrastructure. Read about it on our blog
earthmover.io/blog/icechun...
, or visit
earthmover.io
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Icechunk 1.0: Production-Grade Cloud-Native Array Storage Is Here - Earthmover
A year ago, we made an important internal decision which set Earthmover on a new courseโwe decided to refactor and open source our core technology for storing array-based data in the cloud. This took ...
https://earthmover.io/blog/icechunk-1-0-production-grade-cloud-native-array-storage-is-here
6 months ago
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Watch Naomi's talk from CNG to learn more about how CTrees is using the Earthmover Platform
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7 months ago
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CNG
7 months ago
New
#CNG2025
talk alert! Lindsey Nield &
@deepakcherian.bsky.social
from
@earthmover.io
present on Zarr, Icechunk & Xarray for cloud-native
#geospatial
data cube analysis. Watch now:
youtu.be/DSxmCWfobqQ
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[CNG 2025] Zarr, Icechunk & Xarray for Cloud-Native Geospatial Data-cube Analysis โ Nield & Cherian
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
https://youtu.be/DSxmCWfobqQ
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Our latest fundamentals blog post provides an overview of
@zarr.dev
and its open-source ecosystem. Read more:
earthmover.io/blog/what-is...
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Fundamentals: What Is Zarr? A Cloud-Native Format for Tensor Data - Earthmover
What Zarr is, and how it enables fast, scalable access to multidimensional array data in the cloud.
https://earthmover.io/blog/what-is-zarr
8 months ago
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Register
bit.ly/4mCCRSW
for our upcoming webinar to learn about the different APIs available with Flux and how they can be used to build interactive and informative web applications for weather data products.
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8 months ago
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๐ป๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐โ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ? Icechunk stores only new or changed chunks for each version โno redundant copies or rewrites. You get instant time travel, branching, and efficient updates, all with negligible storage overhead. More:
bit.ly/3F1XFST
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Icechunk: Efficient storage of versioned array data - Earthmover
We recently got an interesting question in Icechunkโs community Slack channel (thank you Iury Simoes-Sousa for motivating this post): Iโm new to Icechunk. How is the storage managed for redundant info...
https://earthmover.io/blog/icechunk-efficient-storage-of-versioned-array-data
8 months ago
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Our small but mighty team has spent decades wrangling scientific data in academia and industry. Along the way, weโve spotted the same anti-patterns cropping up everywhere: data swamps, code duplication, bespoke and fragile pipelines, and gatekeepers.
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1/ Our team just got back from an inspiring week at the
@cloudnativegeo.org
conference in Snowbird, Utah, and one thing is clear:ย ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ.
8 months ago
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๐ Stop by our booth at
@cloudnativegeo.org
to say hi to our team, see a demo of our platform, and pick up some stickers!
#CNG2025
8 months ago
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๐ฃ Our team is heading to the
@cloudnativegeo.org
Conference in Snowbird, Utah. Weโll be sharing our latest open-source work on Xarray, Zarr, VirtualiZarr, Icechunk, and leading a hands-on workshop, ๐๐๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐๐โ๐ข๐๐, & ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ข๐-๐๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐ก๐-๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ . Read more:
bit.ly/4lRWNAJ
9 months ago
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1/ ๐จ New Blog Post Alert: "๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐ผ๐๐๐โ๐ข๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐โ๐ฬ๐ ๐๐ข๐ก ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ธ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐" ๐ฆ๐ ๐ Read it here:
earthmover.io/blog/learnin...
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Learning about Icechunk consistency with a clichรฉd but instructive example - Earthmover
In this post weโll show what can happen when more than one process write to the same Icechunk repository concurrently, and how Icechunk uses transactions and conflict resolution to guarantee consisten...
https://earthmover.io/blog/learning-about-icechunk-consistency
9 months ago
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1/ ๐กย Our latest blog post in the fundamentals series, written by
@tegnicholas.bsky.social
, demystifies cloud-optimized scientific data formats! Read more:
earthmover.io/blog/fundame...
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Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?
What cloud-optimized data really means, and how Zarr and Icechunk enable fast access to massive scientific datasets in cloud object storage.
https://earthmover.io/blog/fundamentals-what-is-cloud-optimized-scientific-data
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1/ Today we are launching Flux, a powerful new addition to the Earthmover platform. Flux is a high-performance gateway for exploring, querying, and visualizing geospatial data via standards-compliant APIs (EDR, WMS, and OPeNDAP).
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๐ฃย Blog post alert! ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐ค ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ: ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐'๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. This technical post by
@functionth.bsky.social
dives deep into the internals of how S3 shards data, showing that distributed Icechunk can easily perform 230,000 object reads/sec and beyond.
earthmover.io/blog/explori...
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Exploring Icechunk scalability: untangling S3's prefix story | Earthmover
We show Icechunk can scale to extremely high concurrency levels, and explain how it achieves this in modern object stores.
https://earthmover.io/blog/exploring-icechunk-scalability
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โญย We just released the first post in our Fundamentals series. This one is called ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐ฌ. ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ - ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐.
earthmover.io/blog/tensors...
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Fundamentals: Tensors vs. Tables | Earthmover
Why tabular tools trip over gridded data.
https://earthmover.io/blog/tensors-vs-tables
9 months ago
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1/ ๐ Solving
#NASA
โs cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and
@developmentseed.org
to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASAโs 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.
10 months ago
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Register to attend our team's workshop at
@cloudnativegeo.org
! The workshop will teach attendees how to use the
@zarr.dev
data format model for cloud-native geospatial datacube analysis. ๐๏ธ Apr 30-May 2 ๐Snowbird, Utah ๐ Register here:
2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org
10 months ago
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Join our upcoming webinar to learn about our new product, Flux. Flux hosts standards-compliant WMS, EDR, and OPeNDAP endpoints, allowing seamless integration between Arraylake data and other tools, including web maps, GIS applications, and even Excel spreadsheets. Register here:
bit.ly/4kEGeaV
10 months ago
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1/ As a data platform company, we get a unique view of how other companies use data. In light of the recent cuts at
@noaa.gov
, our CEO,
@rabernat.bsky.social
, reached out to our customers to get their perspective on the value of NOAAโs data and services.
10 months ago
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Denver folks โ join us for a Geospatial Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 12th at 7 PM MST. Come enjoy drinks, tacos, discussing geospatial data, and meeting the Earthmover team. Register:
lu.ma/o6r39p6j
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Denver Geospatial Happy Hour ยท Luma
Come have a drink, grab a bite, and nerd out with the Earthmover team on geospatial data. Earthmover will provide food and drink tickets. Our event will beโฆ
https://lu.ma/o6r39p6j
11 months ago
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Weโre thrilled to welcome
@tegnicholas.bsky.social
to the team! Tom is a prolific contributor to
@xarray.bsky.social
and
@pangeo.io
. He created Xarray Datatree and VirtualiZarr. Tom is working as a Forward Engineer, supporting our customers and the broader open-source community.
11 months ago
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1/ Check out our latest blog post
earthmover.io/blog/xarray-...
to learn about the dramatic improvement and performance of Xarrayโs Zarr backend. We achieved improved the โtime to first byteโ metric, building on Zarr-Pythonโs new asyncio internals.
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Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3 | Earthmover
We have recently dramatically improved the performance of Xarrayโs Zarr backend. This post explores how weโve improved the โtime to first byteโ metric, building on Zarr-Pythonโs new asyncio internals.
https://earthmover.io/blog/xarray-open-zarr-improvements
11 months ago
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Register for tomorrowโs webinar, Data Version Control for Arrays with Icechunk.
bit.ly/3WVPSf2
@rabernat.bsky.social
will discuss Icechunkโs application in AI/ML model development, how it adds safety + flexibility to data pipelines, & how it enables git-style version control to Zarr Arrays + Groups
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Join our webinar, Data Version Control for Arrays with
#Icechunk
.
@rabernat.bsky.social
will explain how Icechunkโs transactions, snapshots, tags, + branches can add safety & flexibility to data pipelines and workflows. Register here:
bit.ly/3WVPSf2
11 months ago
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CNG
11 months ago
Excited to welcome
@earthmover.io
as a sponsor for CNG Conference 2025! They join NASA,
@overturemaps.bsky.social
,
@opengeospatial.bsky.social
& more in making this event possible. ๐ฃ๏ธ Have a talk idea? Submit now! ๐๏ธ Early bird tickets still available! ๐ซฑ๐พโ๐ซฒ๐ฟ Become a sponsor!
2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org
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NYC folks โ
@rabernat.bsky.social
will be leading a technical workshop, Navigating Weather and Climate Data, on Tuesday as part of the
#GeospatialRiskSummit
. Ryan will teach attendees the current state-of-the-art technology for analyzing weather and climate data and share visions of the future.
12 months ago
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Stop by booth 353 to chat with our team and grab some stickers!
#AMS2025
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Weโre thrilled to announce the release of @zarr.dev-Python 3! This major release brings full support for Zarr v3 specification, including the new chunk-sharding extension, major performance enhancements, and a thoroughly modernized codebase. Read more:
earthmover.io/blog/zarr3-r...
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Zarr-Python 3 is here! | Earthmover
Zarr-Python 3 is here! This release brings support for Zarr's v3 specification, new extensions, and major performance improvements.
https://earthmover.io/blog/zarr3-release
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