Cloud Native Geospatial

I’m pleased to share that GeoParquet, a new geospatial format for vector data, just had its first ‘beta’ release. This is an exciting milestone, signifying that the core contributors believe that we’re almost ready for a stable 1.0.0 release. The next step is to solicit diverse implementations and feedback, to…

April 19th and 20th brings together the COG, STAC, Zarr & COPC communities to share experiences and welcome new users. — I’m pleased to announce that we have just opened registration for the Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Event we’re putting on with the OGC on April 19th and 20th. You can read more background in my previous post and in the recap from the first event. The core idea is to highlight…

This post continues the STAC 1.0.0 announcement and updates on the community and spec, with an in-depth dive into one part of what we call the ‘STAC Ecosystem’. This is the ever-growing set of libraries, clients, and servers that rely on the STAC specification to build towards our goal of…

The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) community is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0. It’s safe to say we’re all quite proud of the release, as it’s been a large community effort for over three years. For those who haven’t heard of STAC, it provides a common language to…

How the STAC tool ecosystem is growing towards supporting truly open spatial data The STAC specification is transforming the way data providers and consumers are thinking about how to work with open spatial data. It provides a clear, common language for spatial data that is flexible and developed by an…

Cloud Native Geoprocessing Part 2 — The next topic in my Cloud Native Geoprocessing series is “Analysis Ready Data” (ARD) — a growing trend among satellite imagery providers to handle more of the data preparation work typically done by end users in their desktop environments. Much of the use of modern geoprocessing systems goes toward making…

I recently wrapped up a series of posts on ‘Cloud Native Geospatial,’ which explore geospatial architectures that are built for the cloud, from the ground up. In this series, I’m delving deeper into one aspect of these architectures: the processing of geospatial data, also known as ‘geoprocessing.’ The ability to…

So, I’ve decided to bring the ‘Cloud Native Geospatial’ blog series to a close with this post. I’ve got a lot more to write on the topic, but it makes sense to wrap up the core articulation of the concept. We’ll end looking forward, describing a potential vision of what…

One of the most interesting things to emerge from the gathering in Boulder was the importance of ‘Static Catalogs’ portion of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog specification. …