To give you a glimpse into the vast image data that #ESAEuclid is observing in its surveys, #ESA published a new set of images: a section of 2 weeks of observations, 132 deg² on the sky, that's 500x the area of the Moon, and zoom-ins.
Check out the images in our Euclid Blog, where you can also find a link to ESA's full release with high-res images and all explanations and background.
https://www.euclid-ec.org/euclids-first-large-piece-of-the-sky
2 years have passed and there the Biomass satellite launch is still pending (probably because Vega-C was grounded for quite some time?). Now scheduled for sometime 2025 https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass :blobshrug:
@EvenRouault Can we add GPKG's coordinate precision which allows to map the position of an atom to the rant list? https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/365
It has been ages since the last time I blogged. Here it is "Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$":
https://erouault.blogspot.com/2024/09/those-concepts-in-geospatial-field-that.html
@EvenRouault This is gold, thanks for sharing!
So. Mesmerizing. 😵 https://mstdn.social/@stux/113085706125152982
Analysing satellite imagery effectively takes practice. We recently wrote up some of the basic mistakes to avoid when starting out in open source research… https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/04/25/oshit-seven-deadly-sins-of-bad-open-source-research/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl9FShX0mws
what? The Simpsons became reality.
Taxing great wealth to finance the ecological and social transition:
We have (finally!) released @geopandas 1.0 today. While the release notes are long and full of exciting stuff, the most important from my perspective of a maintainer is a massive cleanup of internal handling of geometry engines. It was a bit pain lately.
A short reflection on that which wouldn’t fit in a toot - https://martinfleischmann.net/geopandas-1.0-is-out/
And a post I wrote when we released 1.0a1, highlighting things that have a potential to break stuff downstream - https://martinfleischmann.net/geopandas-1.0-is-coming.-what-will-change/
Please report bugs! 🐛
"Rainbolt’s growing topographical erudition was in the service of winning at an online game called GeoGuessr. The game presents the player with a randomly selected image of a stretch of road on Google Street View; at the top of the screen is a timer, and at the bottom is a world map. The aim is to use signs, infrastructure, vegetation and any other distinctive elements to locate the images as swiftly as possible on the map. Rainbolt is the game’s most famous player..." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/magazine/trevor-rainbolt-geoguessr-google-maps.html
I've created a basic app for searching an aerial photo using text queries. That's right, you can search for "roundabout" or "school playground" on an image of a city and get pretty good results!
Have a play with it here: https://server1.rtwilson.com/aerial - it's set up with an aerial image of Southampton, UK
Under the hood this uses the SkyCLIP model and the Pinecone vector database.
#geospatial #ai #vector #ml #embedding #gis #remotesensing #aerial #python
Can't let Twitter have all the fun!
At #foss4gna yesterday @kylebarron introduced a new tool:
🛹 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 is a game-changer for geospatial data visualization in Jupyter. Say goodbye to slow rendering times!
🔗 bit.ly/lonboard
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#DataVisualization #Geospatial
Taxing great wealth to finance the ecological and social transition:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en
"Generative AI exists because of the transformer" https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
#openbuildings dataset released by Google is really impressive.
I'm curious why it hasn't been a big fuzz for the #geospatial people #deeplearning #remotesensing
It has been published under open licenses #odbl and #CCby4, choose your flavor.
https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/#explore
This article by Baldur Bjarnason on the problems of "A.I." should be required reading for software development managers https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-and-software-quality/
@pythonhub This should redirect to the GIT repo of the original author: https://github.com/Liuhong99/Sophia 🤔
