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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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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · 21d

Did anyone catch the livestream?? 👀

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

@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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OpenStreetMap US @osmus.bsky.social · 27d

Register for #MappyHour with special guest Jason Boone, who will guide you through his process of creating map animations using #OpenStreetMap data with Adobe After Effects and Geolayers, plus time for Q&A.

Join us at noon ET on Wednesday, September 17th. Register: bit.ly/MappyHour-ma...

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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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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Sep 4

Cool “before the rain” skies in Southern Arizona last night.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Sep 4

Glad you like it! I hope it catches the eyes of some of the geo-nerds that visit you.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 29

The Mexican free-tailed bats are still cleaning out my feeders every night.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 29

It’s a two for one video!

Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 27

I really don’t feel like posting anything except hummingbirds. Sorrynotsorry.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 27

Today is one of those days to put the whole "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything" into practice. 🤐

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 25

Beautifully done!

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · Aug 25

One of my customers had so much fun visiting the Map Center that he came back a few days later with a camera. He made this magnificent short documentary about my store, about me, and why I bother to do any of it at all.

It's really lovely and I hope you watch it!
youtu.be/Dj9uKpk3Idk?...

The Map Center

YouTube video by You Are Here

youtu.be

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 18

That's not a hummingbird...

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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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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 15

DevSeed just taught a workshop about foundation models that uses Clay & Prithvi. Maybe it can help clarify things.

github.com/developments...

GitHub - developmentseed/igarss25tutorial: HD-06: Harnessing the Power of Earth Foundation Models

HD-06: Harnessing the Power of Earth Foundation Models - developmentseed/igarss25tutorial

github.com

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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Aug 15

Making the moral case for a humanitarian satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...

#remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good

A Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: At what point does inaction become unconscionable?

What does it say about our world when we spend over $54 billion a year on defense and intelligence satellites to spy on each other - yet cannot dedicate even one satellite to saving lives? We take pic...

www.linkedin.com

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 14

I love when we have a project that is soooo cool that we have to give it a codename while it's under development. 🕵️

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 14

Played a game with my 8 year old last night. He loves this little comic from @theoatmeal.bsky.social.
Adding it to my zine inspiration collection.
Maybe we need data stories told from the perspective of the creatures we’re helping @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 14

I saw your name on a few of the blog posts! What a time!

Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 13

Hard to read the small print, but that's 2012, btw. Who remembers this era of geospatial??

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 13

Every so often, I find myself in the archives of the @developmentseed.org blog. I love getting insight into what life was like before my time at DevSeed. Here's a good one. Remember that cool new tool called MapBox (lol). It got to be such a big deal that we gave it its own blog & Twitter account.

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 8

The amazing creative talent who brought my zine idea to life.

Give Gus a follow!

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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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Aug 7

Nope. 👎🏻

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Aug 5

Project Phoenix is a community science monitoring project to study the effects of smoke on birds in neighborhoods across California, Oregon, and Washington. Live on the U.S. West Coast? You can join the effort. www.project-phoenix-investigating-bird-responses-to-smoke.org

Project Phoenix

www.project-phoenix-investigating-bird-responses-to-smoke.org

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