𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐤.𝐠𝐥-𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐯0.3: fast GeoTIFF visualization in deck.gl - 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲: high-level & fully-typed. We've fully migrated off of geotiff.js - 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐏𝐒𝐆 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 to 309kb - 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 of Affine and Morecantile to TS developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

Also in Lonboard, new logo! Designed by @gusbusdraws.bsky.social, who also designed the @developmentseed.org Cloud Native Zine developmentseed.org/blog/2025-02... zines.developmentseed.org/zines/cloud-...

Lonboard v0.15 now supports geocoding! Easily jump the map to locations, using any geocoder service of your choice. developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat... @developmentseed.org

Groundwork 04 is our quarterly look at small, practical experiments by our team that are shaped by real questions we’re hearing across the cloud-native geospatial community. GeoAI agents. Browser-native raster rendering. STAC tooling. Transit data as GeoParquet. ds.io/groundwork04

I did a thing! I got my example data running on @developmentseed.org's stac-map on my GitHub Pages site. The data is bounding boxes of three USGS topos. Eventually it will be maps we're scanning and gereferencing. It's not perfect, but it's progress! #gischat micheletobias.github.io/historical-s...

We aren't the only science support organizations migrating data operations to the cloud. Hear how NASA's MAAP and VEDA projects are helping researchers put the cloud to work from Aimee Barciauskas of @developmentseed.org Full video➡️ https://loom.ly/aFt5RGU

📅 Join the official launch of the #EOPF #Sentinel #Zarr Explorer: 9 March (15:00 CET) Supported by @esa.int, this webinar demonstrates browser-based Sentinel data visualisation using Zarr/GeoZarr. @thrivegeo.bsky.social @developmentseed.org @eox.at 🔗 Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/thriv...

NASA Earthdata just got a major boost. GIBS + EGIS mapping services are now integrated into the VEDA platform, giving users one place to explore and analyze Earth science data. Open standards → less duplication, more capability, truly cloud‑native workflows www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/alerts-...

Sentinel data is moving to Zarr. The real question: is the ecosystem ready? We built the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer with @esa.int , @eox.at & @thrivegeo.bsky.social to demonstrate cloud-native Sentinel workflows in practice: 🧵 1/2

Anthony Boyd and Wille Marcel are speaking at ICTC 2026 in Lima 🇵🇪 On Feb 19, they’ll share practical ways to choose open-source geospatial tools based on real project needs, plus a lightning talk on interactive storytelling with NASA’s VEDA. Hope to see folks there. Hablamos español.

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 24th, for an epic send-off for our Washington, DC office. Food, beverages, music, community & memories! RSVP: luma.com/d8leo2k9

Just published: our story working with the Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics to make climate science and satellite data practical for local decision-making. Tutorials & an interactive dashboard are open and reusable. Read more: ds.io/vanuatu

What does “cloud‑friendly” Earth data mean? In this @thrivegeo.bsky.social interview, @yayyyimee.bsky.social breaks it down — from NASA’s cloud migration to why geospatial needs its own “Amazon fulfillment center” moment. Great listen! scenefromabove.podbean.com/e/scene-from...

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 24th, for an epic send-off for our Washington, DC office. Food, beverages, music, community & memories! RSVP: luma.com/d8leo2k9

Repo: github.com/developments... Built at @developmentseed.org

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency

🏔️ Snowpack futures The VEDA Dashboard shows how climate change could reshape Western U.S. “water towers.” Explore + share your ideas for resilience. 👉 www.earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/s...

Wei Ji Leong, PhD is presenting a poster at CliC OSC 2026 in Wellington on building capacity in Vanuatu for climate change monitoring and disaster preparedness. 📌 Poster sessions: Feb 10–11 clic2026.com

❄️ Blizzards aren’t just snowstorms. They disrupt travel, strain power grids, damage crops, and cost billions. A VEDA Dashboard Story digs into the science + impacts of these extreme winter events. Read here 👉 www.earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/st...

Earth observation data is everywhere. Getting it in time is still the hard part. EO Predictor is a map-first tool that estimates where satellite observations are likely to happen over the next 48 hours—useful for disaster response & other time-sensitive work. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-01...

Visualize a mosaic of NAIP imagery loaded from @microsoft.com Planetary Computer COGs, all in your browser, no server involved. Render true color, false color infrared, or NDVI. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Built at @developmentseed.org with deck.gl-raster: github.com/developments...

Had a great week spending time IRL with my @developmentseed.org team in Lisbon. I work with the smartest, kindest people and I’m feeling energized to finish the year strong and looking forward to 2026. 🫶

Bom dia! 📍DevSeed Lisbon

We’re heading to Auckland 🇳🇿 for @foss4g2025.bsky.social to talk Rust 🦀 + open geospatial. Catch our team showing how modern tools make geospatial faster and more interoperable. Find us for zines + join the GeoRust sprint. Get the deets: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10... #foss4g #osgeo

Slides for my @foss4gna.bsky.social NA talk, "Cloud-Native Geospatial Metadata with stac-geoparquet" are at www.gadom.ski/presentation... I subtitled the talk "Practical STAC", because #stac-geoparquet was motivated by real-world problems found while managing large @stacspec.bsky.social systems

We took Canada’s Spatial Access Measures dataset (big, clunky CSVs) → turned it into a single GeoParquet file. Add DuckDB-WASM + deck.gl & you get - instant queries - smooth maps - no backend Public data, but actually usable. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10... @saadiqmohiuddin.bsky.social

New blog post! kylebarron.dev/blog/fast-py... This dives into performance pitfalls of Python bindings, why projects like Lonboard are so fast, and why I care about Apache Arrow so much. The post is high level and you don't need to know C/C++/Rust to understand it!

I'm happy to announce I've been promoted to an Apache Arrow Committer, meaning I'm authorized to merge code patches into Arrow repositories! I join this list of amazing people: arrow.apache.org/committers/

Released Lonboard v0.13! - New layer types: H3, S2, Geohash, A5 and fixed HeatmapLayer - Render data layers beneath Maplibre text labels - Map UI controls: scale, fullscreen, navigation - Significant performance improvements: fixing earlier regressions developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

latest out from our lab- led by Saurabh Kaushik- we find at least one geofoundational model (just testing Privthi here) is outperforming CNNs and transformers for mapping glaciers (esp. termini and snouts). we released a dataset with >1800 global images with it too! doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

Say hi at #FOSS4GNA and grab a zine from our table!

We’re hiring a Cloud Engineer (EU/UK) 🌍 Help build open-source, cloud-native geospatial + AI tools with partners like ESA, NASA & ECMWF. Remote-first from an ESA member state or join us in Lisbon. grnh.se/9f2aodg43us #hiring #jobs #geospatial #europe

See you at @foss4gna.bsky.social in Reston next week! We’re sharing: • eoAPI for humanitarian maps • stac-geoparquet + stac-map • VirtualiZarr • an eoAPI workshop (still time to sign up!) 👋 Grab a zine and say hi developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...

#foss4g-na is next week! I'll be talking Tuesday about #stac-geoparquet and running a workshop Monday with @wildintellect.com on #eoAPI. Quite a few of my @developmentseed.org colleagues will be there as well! Stop by, say hi, and let's have a chat!

Curious about the new #Zarr data format for #Sentinel data? Want to ask experts from @developmentseed.org and thriveGEO how to use it? Join our Office Hours session on Nov 4, 10-11am (UTC+1): ⭐ buytickets.at/thrivegeo/19... Everyone is welcome!

#duckdb and #deckgl have come a long way, amazing what can be done directly in the browser @developmentseed.org developmentseed.org/spatial-acce...

DevSeed intern Beatriz Peres used ESA’s new Sentinel-1 Zarr to analyze the 2024 Valencia floods with lightweight, time-series workflows. Her blog shows how Zarr + xarray make flood monitoring faster & more flexible: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09... #BiDS25 @thrivegeo.bsky.social

At #BiDS2025 this week! At two demos we're sharing how to make Sentinel data more accessible and actionable: 🔹 Sentinel Zarr Explorer 🔹 EOPF Toolkit + Notebook Competition with @thrivegeo.bsky.social Agenda: bids25-signup.esa.int/agenda We'd love to chat! #EarthObservation #BigData #CloudNative

A big group of us is headed to SatCamp this week to hike, bike & scheme with an amazing community of EO enthusiasts & experts. Will we see you there?

🪐 We believe that foundational planetary data should be open and accessible to all. Thanks to @source.coop Cooperative, we’re able to share our datasets with the broader open data community. docs.source.coop/case-studies...

Lonboard's 0.12 release improved the support for GeoArrow data types, and is moving towards being fully GeoArrow-native. Shapely is no longer a required dependency! github.com/developments...

New Lonboard release and new demo! Integrating marimo and Apache DataFusion to visualize the NYC taxi dataset. developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

@worldresources.bsky.social call to move past the hype and use AI responsibly for public good resonates with how we've approached AI in our work. This is the conversation to pay attention to — don’t miss the livestream this week. Sign up: landcarbonlab.org/events/ai-me...

We're running another edition of our Foundation Models workshop. This time at EarthSense 2025. attend.ieee.org/earthsense-2... #ai #geoai #foundationmodels #remotesensing #earthsense2025 @sunu.bsky.social

We built stac-map, a lightweight, map-first prototype for exploring STAC GeoParquet in your browser. Built w/ DuckDB, geoarrow, & semantic STAC search, explore STAC GeoParquet files directly in the browser. Try it: developmentseed.org/stac-map/ Blog: ds.io/stac-map @gadom.ski @indraneel.org

Blog post up for stac-map: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09... A very imperfect prototype of a map-first #STAC app, it includes: - stac-geoparquet visualization and download - Experimental natural language collection search Uses #deck.gl, @duckdb.org, #geoarrow, and github.com/stac-utils/r...

It’s Friday and I’m in car line at my kids school. It’s only 98 degrees today. I’ll share this from the DevSeed account next week but @zacdezgeo.github.io & I just wrapped the blog on building QGIS plugins and what we learned from updating the GEE-QGIS plugin. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-08...

Earlier this summer, we helped release a major update to the QGIS-GEE plugin. Coming soon to our blog @zacdezgeo.github.io will share what he learned about building plugins. Read the Google Earth announcement here: medium.com/google-earth...

Zines are a great tool for science communication. Earlier this year, I put one together with @kiricarini.com of @developmentseed.org. The zine provides a visually interesting jumping off point for folks learning cloud-native geospatial data!

Moving terabytes of cloud data in Python was too slow & messy—so we built Obstore. ⚡ Fast & stateless ☁️ Works with S3, GCS, & Azure 🐍 Rust-backed, no dependencies It’s already powering cloud-native geospatial tools. Read the blog: ds.io/obstore-blog