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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 28/09/2026

Before he was building cloud infrastructure for geospatial data, Henry Rodman was trying to find the right datasets as a forest scientist. That experience still shapes his work today. Get to know Henry in the latest Behind the Tech 👇 developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0... #Geospatial #OpenData

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is the reward for a bunch of stuff wrapping up yesterday: working on my STAC Map (forked from @developmentseed.org) for scanned georeferenced maps! It's looking good, but I need to add the recently processed maps and figure out how to add image previews.

A web map interface build on Development Seed's STAC Map code. The left side navigation shows overview information and a list of available maps and the main map panel shows a basemap centered over the UC Davis Arboretum with orange squares over it indicating the extent of georeferenced maps.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 22/09/2026

The global food system is huge — and mostly invisible. The Global Food Twin shows how calories are produced and move across the world, from regional crops to major transport routes. A new way to see the system we depend on. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 22/09/2026

osm-seed has moved into its own GitHub org and released osm-seed 2.0.0. What started as an internal Development Seed tool is now supporting projects like OpenHistoricalMap, Palestine Open Maps, and local government mapping systems. Read more: ds.io/osm-seed

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 21/09/2026

We're at #ClimateWeekNYC this week! Development Seed team members are joining discussions on climate intelligence, geospatial technology, AI, and open-source infrastructure for sustainability. If you're in NYC, reach out to connect 👋

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 21/09/2026

Anton Donle rebuilt a wildfire CO₂ workflow using openEO — calculating dNBR, classifying vegetation with a UDF, and estimating emissions at 20m, all with server‑side processing. A sharp example of cloud‑native EO’s potential. 🔗 developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 15/09/2026

AI for Earth only works end‑to‑end. We build pipelines that clean, train, and deliver insights from real‑world data, including coral monitoring with TNC. Models are one piece; the system makes it useful. 🔗 developmentseed.org/blog/2025-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 15/09/2026

Machine learning on openEO isn’t just preprocessing. Dev Seed intern Anton Donle used UDFs to classify burned vegetation and estimate CO₂ from a Portugal wildfire. Backend quirks, lots of flexibility, and a clear look at cloud‑native EO’s future. 🔗 developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 09/09/2026

The Global Food Twin turns a huge food‑system model into an interactive map. Powered by Next.js, PostgreSQL, React Map GL, and deck.gl, it shows how food is produced, moved, and connected to nutrition worldwide. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 03/09/2026

We spend a lot of time talking about the things we build. Behind the Tech is our chance to talk about the people building them. As we get ready to bring the series back with new faces (and a slightly new format), we’ve been revisiting a few favorites.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 27/08/2026

Say hi to @vgeorge.bsky.social in Paris this weekend at State of the Map.

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Vitor George @vgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On my way to State of the Map 2026! Sixteen years since my first OSM conference, and it's amazing to see how much the community has grown. I'll be catching up on the latest for @developmentseed.org and presenting the refreshed osmforcities.org on Saturday. Found this 2010 photo with the 🇧🇷 flag 🥲

State of the Map 2010 group photo, with about 200 people stading, flags of Vietnam Brazil and Bangladesh are hold by the audience in the front.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 26/08/2026

We're en route to FOSS4G. We're excited to share our work and connect with the community. Check out all the details in this thread 🧵

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 26/08/2026

We tested how far geospatial embeddings can go on their own. Pixelverse experiments show structure, but not enough separation to classify building types, pointing to the value of fusing embeddings with other datasets. More in Groundwork 05 → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 22/08/2026

HEALPix, but in your browser. healpix‑ts + deck.gl‑healpix let you animate and explore global datasets like ERA5 without a notebook. See the experiment in Groundwork 05 → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 19/08/2026

Earth observation data keeps growing, but discovery hasn’t kept pace. Federated STAC collection search is emerging as a way to browse datasets across multiple catalogs in one place, no guessing required. Exciting direction for FAIR‑aligned EO work. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 18/08/2026

Development Seed is at ACCESS 2026 in Melbourne! On Wednesday, our ML Engineer Wei Ji Leong gives a lightning talk on CuPy‑Xarray and how GPU decoding can speed up Earth data workflows. Catch it between 11:30–12:00 on Day 1.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 15/08/2026

Meet Gjore Milevski, Software Engineer at Development Seed. He works on NASA’s VEDA project and helped build the Mobile Climate Mapper, featured at the Smithsonian’s Earth Information Center. Learn more: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-0...

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 13/08/2026

Zarrista: a new, faster Python library for working with Zarr data! 1.9x to 2.7x faster than Zarr-Python for reading local data. developmentseed.org/zarrista/lat...

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Zarrista: Faster Zarr for Python - zarrista

A low-level Zarr API for Python, powered from Rust by zarrs.

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Lat × Long @latlong.blog · 14/08/2026

Zarrista is a new Rust-powered Python library that speeds up Zarr I/O by 1.9×–2.7× over Zarr-Python. It’s a thin binding to zeros, and it’s header into Zarr-Python itself, so you get speedup with zero code changes. latlong.blog/2026/08/zarrista-makes…

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Zarrista Makes Reading Zarr 1.9×–2.7× Faster in Python | Lat × Long

Zarrista, a new Rust-based Python library, offers 1.9–2.7× performance improvements over Zarr-Python and is being integrated as a native backend into Zarr-Python for ecosystem-wide benefits.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 14/08/2026

Development Seed is everywhere this August — IGARSS, ACCESS Workshop, Responsible Gen‑AI Hackweek, STAC Japan, State of the Map, and FOSS4G. Full details + talks: developmentseed.org/community

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Community — Development Seed

See our planet better.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 13/08/2026

Pushing browser‑native raster visualization forward: deck.gl‑raster now handles multi‑band COGs, faster GPU processing, and smarter tile loading, no server required. Check it out in Groundwork 05 → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 09/08/2026

Headed to IGARSS 2026 in DC! Catch Development Seed’s Kevin Bullock in the TU2.R6 session sharing how EO + risk analytics scale together to support better climate and disaster decisions. If you’re in town for the conference, come say hi.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 07/08/2026

Massive raster collections, but without the pain. lazycogs lets you open huge COG archives as an xarray dataset using STAC Geoparquet—fetching only the pixels you actually need. More in Groundwork 05 → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 05/08/2026

Finding EO data shouldn’t feel like detective work. New federated STAC search tools now make it possible to explore collections across NASA, ESA, and more without knowing the right catalog. A big win for open science. developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 28/07/2026

2025 was a big year for open geospatial at Dev Seed. From eoAPI to STAC‑GeoParquet to Zarr experiments and Global Nature Watch, shared tools and shared standards moved the ecosystem forward. Our work in 2026 is closing the last mile. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

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2025 at Development Seed — Development Seed

A look back at 2025 through the projects, partnerships, and open-source communities that shaped our work and the lessons guiding us into 2026.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 23/07/2026

New Groundwork dropped. We’ve been playing with: • lazycogs + STAC Geoparquet • deck.gl-raster upgrades • HEALPix animations in the browser • Pixelverse embedding experiments that surprised us It’s messy, experimental, and very us. Check it out → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 18/07/2026

Groundwork 05 is out. We’ve been tinkering with lazycogs, browser‑native HEALPix tools, new deck.gl‑raster updates, and some surprising Pixelverse embedding experiments. If you like open‑source rabbit holes, take a look → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 17/07/2026

Ian Schuler joined MapScaping to talk about The Great Retooling — cloud‑native geospatial becoming the default, pushed forward by AI. If your data isn’t reachable by agents, it’s not part of the conversation anymore. 🔗 mapscaping.com/podcast/the... #geospatial #cloudnative #opensource #AI

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 15/07/2026

eoAPI makes it easy to stand up STAC metadata, raster tiling, and vector services — no heavy lift. Explore the stack → eoapi.dev And check out our other tools: Titiler, Lonboard, obstore, deck.gl‑raster, stac‑map. Follow our GitHub for more: github.com/development...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 13/07/2026

EOEPCA isn’t just architecture. It’s open‑source building blocks for real EO platforms. Auth, metadata, processing, interoperability… all production‑ready. Read the blog → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 10/07/2026

We’re hiring an EU Technical Project Lead. If you care about open environmental data, strong technical delivery, and working with partners like ESA + ECMWF, take a look. Remote-first in an ESA member state. Link: grnh.se/6g88x0743us

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 08/07/2026

Zarr = cloud‑native, chunked data you can read fast and in parallel. It’s one of the simplest ways to work with massive geospatial datasets. We wrote about why it matters → developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

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Zarr Everywhere — Development Seed

Virtual Access, Python Improvements, and Zarr Summit

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 06/07/2026

We're headed to SCGIS 2026 in Estes Park, where Pete Gadomski is sharing two open‑source deep dives: • Tools you can use right now • GeoAI + storytelling for conservation Conference theme is all about crossing boundaries — open-source is how we do it. Check out www.scgis.org/conference

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 02/07/2026

Open source isn’t a list of repos — it’s a network. We mapped our work across 52 contributors, 72 repos, and 23 orgs. 58% of it happens outside Dev Seed’s repos, across pydata, zarr‑developers, stac‑utils, OGC, and more. Explore it: github.com/development...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 30/06/2026

EOEPCA is more than a technical architecture. It's a model for investing in shared open source infrastructure, open standards & collaboration across the Earth observation community. That's a big part of why we've enjoyed contributing to the project. Our latest blog: ds.io/eoepca

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 26/06/2026

We’re heading to FOSS4G Europe 2026! Presenting this year: • Loïc Houpert — Self‑Healing EO Ingestion Pipelines with Argo + STAC • Daniel da Silva — Interactive HEALPix in the Browser • Felix Delattre — EOPF Zarr and eoAPI at Scale If you’ll be in Timișoara, come find us!

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 25/06/2026

We’re speaking at Transit Data 2026! On June 25 at 9 a.m., Cloud Engineer Saadiq Mohiuddin is presenting “Storing and Sharing Transit Data at Scale: A Workflow for Big Data Without Big Costs.” If you’re there, reach out to Saadiq to connect.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 23/06/2026

What’s the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer? A quick breakdown: 🔍 Find Sentinel Zarr data via STAC 🖼️ Visualize S1 + S2 in the browser 📊 Run openEO analyses with no setup 📖 Explore stories powered by live process graphs 🌐 Built on open, community standards explorer.eopf.copernicus.eu

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 20/06/2026

We’re in London for Climate Action Week! Sajjad Anwar (@geohacker) is giving a lightning talk at EO Summit on June 22 (Innovation Track, 4–5 pm), and he + Joe Flasher will be at CNG London on June 23. If you’re around, reach out to Sajjad to connect.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 17/06/2026

We're halfway through 2026, a good time to remind ourselves of the direction we saw in our 2025 reflection: steady infrastructure work, real‑world tools like Global Nature Watch, and lots of public learning. Full reflection: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 15/06/2026

Our own Anthony Boyd crushed it on the ICTC main stage — open‑source geospatial tools powering real conservation + climate impact. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5U...

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Interactive Storytelling with Open Source Tools

The first International Conservation Technology Conference (ICTC 20...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 11/06/2026

Working with Sentinel data used to mean big downloads and mission‑specific tools. Now the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer lets you search the catalog, preview scenes, switch bands, and run openEO workflows — all computed live from Zarr in cloud storage. explorer.eopf.copernicus.eu

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 05/06/2026

CASEI = NASA’s inventory of airborne + field data. 50+ years of aircraft, balloons, UAVs, and field measurements, all searchable and interlinked. A clean window into NASA’s suborbital science history: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/tools/...

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CASEI | NASA Earthdata

NASA's Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) is a comprehensive inventory of contextual information for NASA's Earth Science airborne and field campaigns.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 02/06/2026

Nature is changing fast. Global Nature Watch helps us keep up. Open data + EO + scalable infrastructure = clearer signals about ecosystem health and change. Proud to support the cloud‑native backbone powering this work. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

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Global Nature Watch Turns Data into Environmental Intelligence — Development Seed

Turning science into insight you can use.

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 28/05/2026

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...

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 15/05/2026

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!

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 26/05/2026

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...

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 21/05/2026

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...

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