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…

Announcing three open requests for proposals for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) projects — In my previous post, I shared that we’ll be funding a number of different STAC initiatives. One of our goals with the STAC ecosystem funding is to grow the number of contributors working on STAC. To that end, we have three completely open requests for proposals that are designed to…

In December I wrote a couple of blog posts to summarize my time as OGC’s first ‘visiting fellow’, writing up a vision for Cloud-Native Geospatial and the role of OGC in it, along with a post on the practical work to be done to get to a great cloud-native geo…

Mark it on your calendars and apply now to speak about COG, STAC, Zarr or COPC. — In September of 2020, we organized the first ‘Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Day’, which shared all that was going on with Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COG) & SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) with a wider audience. …

I seem to be falling into more of a quarterly cadence of STAC community updates, where I go long enough that there are several things to talk about. So read on for all the latest happenings! STAC Funding Initiatives In the last update post, I shared that we had a great set of…

As stactools approaches its one-year birthday we (Chris Holmes and Rob Emanuele, your co-authors for this blog post) figured it’s time to give it a proper introduction. It’s grown to be a key part of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) ecosystem, but somehow there’s never been a blog post announcing…

It’s been almost 3 months since my last blog post on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC), which is one of the longest stretches I’ve gone in the past few years. There’s been lots of progress and growing momentum in the community, so it seemed like a good time to pull together…

In my last post on the future of SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC), I alluded to various funding efforts the STAC Project Steering Committee is planning. With this post, I want to draw some more attention to our first two open RFP’s: one to revamp STAC’s website, and the other to…

Following up on our SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog 1.0.0 announcement, this post will finish our mini-series diving into the STAC specification and the ecosystem around it. This one is really about the future, where we see STAC heading in the next six months and beyond. …