What makes one street feel safer than another? To explore this, I used Place Pulse 2.0, a dataset of 1.1M crowd-sourced comparisons of street view images to train a model that ranks streets based on how safe they appear. Check out the blog post: saadiqm.com/2025/09/22/p...

Our friends at @developmentseed.org are always working on clever tooling that makes it possible to sustain an ambitious community-driven project like ours. Watch Hanbyul Jo (and @marcfarra.bsky.social in spirit) give a rundown at #StateOfTheMapUS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xdm...

🔥 New on NASA's VEDA platform: the Fire Event Explorer shows how wildfires evolved over time—where they spread, and how wind shaped them. 🛰 Based on authoritative NASA data. 🧭 Built for exploration, analysis, and storytelling. 🧵1/4

🌳 Calgary Tree Equity Tool – Updated! I’ve updated the Calgary Tree Equity Tool (calgarytreeequity.ca) with a redesigned interface and new land surface temperature data to reflect heat island effects. Thanks to @faustoperez.bsky.social from @developmentseed.org for your help with the UI redesign.

🤩 @pangeo.io hackathon kicking off at the @developmentseed.org office! Excited for some fun projects.

We’ve got 25 team members on @bsky.app now! 🥳 Just added @saadiqmohiuddin.bsky.social to the Pack. Saadiq is a technical project manager on the NASA VEDA project, loves urban forests and will be at #AGU24 next week talking about on-the-fly raster visualizations leveraging #STAC metadata standards.