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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 7d

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

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 9d

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

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 16d

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?

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Earth Genome @earthgenome.org · 20d

🪐 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...

Earth Genome | Source Cooperative Documentation

Earth Genome Datasets on Source

docs.source.coop

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 20d

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...

Release v0.12.0 · developmentseed/lonboard

New Features ✨ feat: Add new example notebook on accessing spatially-partitioned Overture GeoParquet datasets by @kylebarron in #832 feat: Allow passing GeoArrow arrays and chunked arrays directly...

github.com

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 20d

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

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 23d

Read their Responsible AI Principles:
www.wri.org/insights/ai-...

AI Can Help or Harm the Planet. It's Up to Us.

AI doesn't have to be bad for the planet. It can help us fight climate change, protect nature and improve lives — but only if it's used with care.

www.wri.org

Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 23d

@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...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 23d

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

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 29d

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

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · Sep 4

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...

A Map-First Tool for Exploring STAC Data — Development Seed

stac-map makes exploring STAC GeoParquet as simple as zooming around a map.

developmentseed.org

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 15

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...

Better QGIS Plugins — Development Seed

Build better QGIS plugins with custom dialogs and the Processing framework.

developmentseed.org

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Aug 14

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...

Bridging Worlds: Bringing Google Earth Engine to Desktop GIS Users!

By Alicia Sullivan, Earth Engine Product Manager; Kel Market, Cloud Geographer; and Gena Donchyts, Cloud Geographer

medium.com

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Gus @gusbecker.bsky.social · Aug 8

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!

"Optimizing Geospatial Data for the Cloud"
"A zine exploring common formats"
"Development Seed"
"Gus Becker Kiri Carini"
A floating robot with one hand on a keyboard to a computer that has a glove on the screen. The other hand is giving a thumbs up.

A raccoon character asking about smoke data, and a floating robot describes how vector format may be more efficient than raster in some cases.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Aug 5

And check out @kylebarron.dev's talk at @cloudnativegeo.org earlier this year: youtu.be/Wxh1G2oCZiU?...

[CNG 2025] Fast Cloud Storage Operations with Obstore – Kyle Barron

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum

youtu.be

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Aug 5

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

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ESIP - Earth Science Information Partners @esipfed.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣 We are seeking our next Executive Director to lead the planning and implementation of activities for ESIP!

Applications received before 8/29 will receive first consideration.

🌱 Know of a great fit for this job? Please share with your networks!
➡️ www.esipfed.org/executive-di...

Executive Director - ESIP

We are looking for an inspirational and collaborative Executive Director to lead ESIP and engage with our Earth science data community.

www.esipfed.org

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Jul 30

Just arrived in Chennai to be at the NISAR satellite launch this evening from Satish Dhawan Space Centre as a NASA guest. I'm so honored to see this monumental collaboration between NASA and ISRO! science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Jul 23

📢 We’re hiring and looking for a Geospatial & AI Engineer. This is a remote-first position; however, you must reside in an ESA member country to be eligible to apply.

This role focuses on backend engineering & cloud-native pipelines. AI/LLM skills are a plus, but not a must.

grnh.se/al8eavv03us

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Jul 22

The latest Groundwork is live on the blog!

We’re experimenting with:
• Rust CQL2 playground
• DuckDB+GeoParquet spatial analysis in-browser
• Semantic STAC search
• Zarr visualizations
• DB-free STAC search

Read more + join in the fun:
ds.io/groundwork-03

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Jul 21

Over 2,400 km of new Arctic coastline exposed by glacier retreat mapped using Sentinel, Landsat, QGIS & shared via Zenodo. Open science at its best.

We’re at #ESIP2025 this week, celebrating the community behind the tools that make science like this possible.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s4...

New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century

Nature Climate Change - As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern...

www.nature.com

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Jul 18

Happy Friday! I did a little cloud-native PSA on my run last night.

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OpenHistoricalMap @openhistoricalmap.org · Jul 17

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...

Updates From Development Seed ~ Hanbyul Jo

YouTube video by OpenStreetMap US

www.youtube.com

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Jul 16

🌍 New blog: Working with Sentinel Data in the Cloud
ds.io/eopf101

EOPF 101 is your hands-on guide to using Sentinel data in cloud-native formats like Zarr and STAC. Includes working notebooks, applied workflows, and an open processing environment.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Jul 14

What’s new in eoAPI?
ds.io/eoapi-update

Highlights include:

- STAC Manager for no-code catalog editing
- STAC Auth Proxy for fine-grained access control
- Cloud-agnostic Kubernetes deployments
- Early GeoParquet support and Rust-based tools

eoAPI is now powering VEDA, EOEPCA, & more.

What's New in eoAPI — Development Seed

eoAPI is catching on. Here’s what we’ve learned and what we’re building next.

ds.io

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