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Machine Learning

Vinny Pilone

(Re) Introducing Limner

Limner is our geospatial conversational interface tool, able to detect change and converse with users directly.

Software Engineering ->

Geospatial Company Software Engineering

Jason Gilman

Geospatial Tech Radar 2026: An Emphasis on Provenance and Refined Tooling, from AI to Cloud Native
Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan
Jason Gilman

Introducing the new Limner (formerly Queryable Earth): Conversational, Composable, and Traceable
Software Engineering

Jarrett Keifer

Is Zarr the New COG? Round 2!
Machine Learning Software Engineering

Dana Shum

De-Risking AI: A Roadmap for AI Integration in Finance and Other Highly Regulated Industries

Geospatial ->

Geospatial Company Software Engineering

Jason Gilman

Geospatial Tech Radar 2026: An Emphasis on Provenance and Refined Tooling, from AI to Cloud Native
Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan
Jason Gilman

Introducing the new Limner (formerly Queryable Earth): Conversational, Composable, and Traceable
Machine Learning Geospatial Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan

Building Conversational Interfaces for Querying and Analyzing Geospatial Data
Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

If AI Is Going to Task Satellites, We Need Standards

Machine Learning ->

Machine Learning

Vinny Pilone

(Re) Introducing Limner
Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan
Jason Gilman

Introducing the new Limner (formerly Queryable Earth): Conversational, Composable, and Traceable
Machine Learning Software Engineering

Dana Shum

De-Risking AI: A Roadmap for AI Integration in Finance and Other Highly Regulated Industries
Machine Learning Software Engineering

Jason Gilman

ChatGSFC: Building Composable AI Tools for NASA on Open Source Tooling

Open Source ->

Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

If AI Is Going to Task Satellites, We Need Standards
Software Engineering Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

STAC: A Retrospective, Part 2 (Why STAC was Successful)
Open Source Company Software Engineering

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #5: 0.1 Release
Open Source AWS Geospatial

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #4: Interoperability for Satellite Data Ordering

Cloud Architecture ->

Software Engineering Cloud Architecture

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Reflections on five years spent building an open-source data orchestrator
Open Source AWS Geospatial

Matt Hanson

STAPI Sprint #4: Interoperability for Satellite Data Ordering
Machine Learning Cloud Computing Software Engineering

Adeel Hassan

Building a queryable Earth with vision-language foundation models
Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

Nathan Zimmerman

Using GDAL with EMR-serverless for large-scale data processing

Design ->

Company Design Geospatial Machine Learning Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick
Matt Hanson
Adeel Hassan
Sara Mack

The 2025 Geospatial Tech Radar: Agentic AI, EO Embeddings, and Cloud-Native Maturity
Design

Catherine Oldershaw

Designing risk visualizations: why appropriate complexity matters
Machine Learning Design

Jason Gilman
Sean Malone
Sara Mack

Generating truly useful solutions to real problems with the help of user experience and AI
Design

Philipp Schmitt

Enhancing accessibility in a wildfire risk web application

Data science ->

Data Science Software Engineering

Jarrett Keifer

(Re)Making Cirrus: Three lessons learned
Software Engineering Data Science Geospatial

Terence Tuhinanshu

Using Kerchunk to make NOAA’s National Water Model Dataset more accessible
Cloud Computing Data Science Geospatial Remote Sensing

Patrick Quinn

Cloud Optimized Formats: NetCDF-as-Zarr Optimizations and Next Steps
Data Science Geospatial Open Source

Matt Hanson

Deconstructing Analysis-Ready Data

Company ->

Geospatial Company Software Engineering

Jason Gilman

Geospatial Tech Radar 2026: An Emphasis on Provenance and Refined Tooling, from AI to Cloud Native
Company

Zoë Cohen

Getting Acquainted with Element 84: A Guide to our Intro Client Calls
Company

Sara Mack

Federal Director Profile: A Conversation with Mark Reese
Company Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Beyond the Hype: Element 84’s Pragmatic Vision for AI in Engineering

News ->

Company Design Geospatial News Open Source Software Engineering

Lauren Frederick

Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
Geospatial Company News

Robert Cheetham

Announcing our 2023 Geospatial Tech Radar
News Culture

Dan Pilone

Our next era: Azavea joins Element 84
Conferences Geospatial

Pete Gadomski

FOSS4G Nashville 2022

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