Development Seed

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/

📢 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

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

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...

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

YouTube video by OpenStreetMap US Updates From Development Seed ~ Hanbyul Jo

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...

🌍 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.

What's New in eoAPI — Development Seed eoAPI is catching on. Here’s what we’ve learned and what we’re building next.

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.

We made a Starter Pack of all our team members on Bluesky. Give them a follow to hear about the cool things they are working on.
go.bsky.app/Rgbegts

We are excited to welcome Beatriz Peres to the team! Over the summer, she'll work on the ESA EOPF Toolkit project (eopf-toolkit.github.io/eopf-101/) with our Lisbon-based team.

Beatriz is a geospatial engineer & master's student who loves working with open-source tools, SAR imagery, & LiDAR.

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum [CNG 2025] Fast Cloud Storage Operations with Obstore – Kyle Barron

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording
@kylebarron.dev from @developmentseed.org introduces Obstore, a python library he wrote to access data on the cloud. Watch his talk to hear about the motivations for writing Obstore & its details
▶️ youtu.be/Wxh1G2oCZiU

We’re hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer!

This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems — from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science.

Remote, open-source, and meaningful.
Details + apply: grnh.se/39qfi0m13us

Come build your tile at the CDSE booth! Contribute to the LEGO Sentinel-2 mosaic!
#LPS25

@developmentseed.org @vincentsarago.xyz

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum [CNG 2025] Right-Sizing STAC – Pete Gadomski

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording
@gadom.ski from @developmentseed.org presents on the concept of Right-Sizing @stacspec.bsky.social for smaller-scale geospatial data applications.
▶️ youtu.be/Cd5ENsBaQZk

Stoked to be headed to Boston for #SOTMUS! Will we see you there?
@osmus.bsky.social

TiTiler-CMR
Dynamic tiling for Earth data

→ Pulls data straight from NASA’s CMR
→ Works with NetCDF, HDF5, COGs
→ Powers VEDA’s IMERG + HLS products
→ Fully open source

Blog: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/blog/vi...
Repo: developmentseed.org/titiler-cmr/...
Demo: www.loom.com/share/af6fef...

Will we see you at #LPS25?

Catch up with the team at one of our many sessions, demos, or contribute to our hands-on Sentinel-2 mosaic LEGO project.

Get all the details in our blog: ds.io/lps25

We are looking forward to seeing everyone at EO Summit next week!

We had such a great time last year that we're back again to help out by facilitating sessions on environmental intelligence, deforestation, and nature-based solutions.

If you'll be there also, we'd love to connect.

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This is what enabling science looks like.

NASA IMPACT, the Wildfire Tracking Lab, and DevSeed are using VEDA to make earth data more transparent and usable.

Explore here → earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/to...
Blog → ds.io/fire-explorer
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BONUS GIF
ds.io/fire-explorer

You can animate fire growth, visualize wind movement, even export your own GIFs or videos. Perfect for post-fire briefings, reports, or presentations.

NASA’s open data + cloud-native tools = public science in action. 🙌
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This isn’t a disaster response tool.

It’s for fire analysts, journalists, local planners or anyone who needs to understand wildfire patterns, not just damage.

And it works right in the browser. No code. No GIS software.
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🔥 New on NASA's VEDA platform: the Fire Event Explorer shows how wildfires evolved over time—where they spread, and how wind shaped them.

🛰 Based on authoritative NASA data.
🧭 Built for exploration, analysis, and storytelling.
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YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum [CNG 2025] Building Resilient Data Ecosystems – Brianna Pagán (Track 3 Introduction)

What happens when technology fails in a crisis? @briannaritapagan.bsky.social, Tech Project Lead at @developmentseed.org (& former Deputy Manager at NASA), delivers a deeply personal and powerful introduction to Track 3: "Building Resilient Data Ecosystems" at #CNG2025
youtu.be/UlD8jHnBnl4?...

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum [CNG 2025] Cloud-Native Geospatial in Practice – Aimee Barciauskas (Track 2 Introduction)

Aimee Barciauskas from @developmentseed.org introduces Track 2: "Cloud-Native Geospatial in Practice" from #CNG2025. Using a Amazon vs. grocery store analogy, she breaks down why moving to the cloud is a game-changer that demands a complete shift in thinking.

youtu.be/zg-beyEvo6M

🌳 Calgary Tree Equity Tool – Updated!
I’ve updated the Calgary Tree Equity Tool (calgarytreeequity.ca) with a redesigned interface and new land surface temperature data to reflect heat island effects.
Thanks to @faustoperez.bsky.social from @developmentseed.org for your help with the UI redesign.

We're looking forward to the QGIS conference!
Tarashish & @zacdezgeo.github.io will both be there sharing some cool work.
uc2025.qgis.org

jupytergis-tiler allows to visualize local or remote Xarray datasets in JupyterGIS.
It doesn't matter if the data is huge and doesn't fit in memory, the tiler will render to the screen just what you need to see.
All powered by @developmentseed.org's awesome TiTiler!
github.com/geojupyter/j...

Cloud-Native Geospatial Community Social · Luma Join us for a lively social gathering with connection and conversation on Wednesday, after the Living Planet Symposium wraps for the day. We're celebrating the…

If you're attending the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, join us for happy hour on Wed, June 25 at 5pm #LPS25

This free event is hosted in partnership with thriveGEO, @developmentseed.org & our local host, EOX. Space is limited, so please register to attend lu.ma/56jksm3l