What’s CSDA? NASA buys commercial satellite imagery and makes it usable for science. DevSeed helps turn that data cloud-native so researchers can analyze it fast, at scale, and alongside open datasets. Commercial + cloud-native = more science, less friction. science.nasa.gov/earth-scien...

Big speedups in deck.gl-raster v0.7: Retina display support, faster GPU pixel filtering, minimized latency to render 200GB COGs, center-out tile loading developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Thanks to @developmentseed.org for supporting this work!

The 2026 GEO Symposium is underway in Geneva, focused on Earth Intelligence for a resilient future. Dev Seed’s Will Rynearson is on the ground, bringing open‑source + geospatial expertise to the conversation. Event details: www.copernicus.eu/en/events/e...

We’ve been testing how far small models can go for geospatial tasks. Turns out it's pretty far. Gazet is a fine‑tuned Qwen 3.5 0.8B model, running on CPU, using open data, generating spatial SQL from natural‑language queries. More in the blog: developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

Cloud-native geospatial works because the data is shaped for compute. COGs, STAC, and tiling patterns let us stream just the bytes we need, when we need them. It’s the difference between downloading a whole dataset and interacting with data more like an API. 🔗 cloudnativegeo.org

Dev Seed’s Leo Thomas heads to Huntsville next week for the ESA–NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Models for EO. He’ll speak May 20 on GeoAI agents and how agentic workflows help analysts go from “What’s happening here?” to actual insights with cloud‑native EO data. nikal.eventsair.com/2nd-esa-nas...

NASA’s Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) is gearing up for its next biennial survey, the engine behind many of the most widely used Earth data products. The survey opens May 18, 2026! www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/featur...

If you're headed to FOSS4G 2026 in Japan and want to learn more about @developmentseed.org's production-ready geospatial stack, eoAPI, @alukach.com and I are hosting a workshop: talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026-... We'll be there to show how how to stand it up, answer questions, and generally chat!

Open data got us far... but “publish it and call it open” doesn’t hold up in an AI‑driven world. The new Beyond Open Data white paper breaks it down: • usefulness > openness • open data ≠ open software • ecosystems matter most Full paper’s live: cloudnativegeo.org/beyond-open...

NASA’s TiTiler‑CMR is now powering dynamic HLS visualizations in Worldview and FIRMS: custom bands, indices, and on‑demand composites with no downloads or preprocessing. Cloud‑native EO, ready for action, built with support from Dev Seed. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/featur...

stac-map v2 release announcement 🥳: developmentseed.org/stac-map/ Includes: - Shareable links - Client-side auth - npm: www.npmjs.com/package/@dev... - React component: developmentseed.org/stac-map/docs/ Bugs/feature requests? github.com/developments... Built with ❤️ by @developmentseed.org

Big models aren’t the only way to solve geospatial problems. Gazet, a tiny geocoder powered by a sub-1B model that runs on a CPU, uses open data and turns natural-language queries into spatial SQL. Small, open, deployable anywhere. Read more: ds.io/gazet

Dev Seed’s own Leo Thomas gave a fantastic lightning talk at FedGeoDay on GeoAI Agents for Earth Observation and how agentic workflows can speed up analysis and make EO data more usable for real missions. Catch his segment here: www.youtube.com/live/COOp0H...

Climate change is reshaping where diseases emerge. Our new study shows rodent-borne arenavirses could spread to new parts of South America, exposing more people as habitats shift. @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

Reconstructing fish tracks from depth + temperature data is hard. Scaling it to hundreds of fish is even harder. In GFTS, we used pangeo‑fish, JupyterHub, DestinE Digital Twins, & custom HEALPix layer to make it all work in the browser. Open-source tools for a changing ocean. ds.io/fish-tracking

EO folks at EGU — come hang with us! We’re hosting a happy hour with Asterisk Labs on May 5 after the conference day ends. Drinks, snacks, good people, and space to talk shop (or not). We'll be at the Schani UNO City Hotel, a quick walk from the venue. RSVP (limited spots): luma.com/9fgehurt

Dev Seed is heading to EGU in Vienna May 3-8! We’re sharing work on: - Open science tooling - LLMs for scientific data access - Zarr at scale - Cloud + HPC workflows - FAIR, open EO pipelines - Virtual Zarr for ensemble prediction systems If you’re at EGU, come say hi! More info: www.egu26.eu

Nearly 90% of fisheries are fully exploited. Sustainable management starts w/ knowing where fish live & migrate across their full life cycle. GFTS combines biologging + climate projections to map habitats & routes on the DestinE Platform. Open science → operational insight. ds.io/fish-tracking

Fish don’t stay put — they migrate through spawning grounds, feeding areas, and long corridors. But most policy still relies on catch locations. We helped build the Global Fish Tracking System with @Ifremer and @SimulaRL to change that.

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!