Cloud Native Geospatial Forum conference: 30 April to 2 May 2025 at Snowbird in Utah.
Jed Sundwall is Executive Director of Radiant Earth. This organization increases '...shared understanding of our world through community-led initiatives that make data easier to access and use.' This organization is motivated by our incapacity to address global issues (related UN sustainability goals). Examples are accumulation of greenhouse gases and deforestation. They have identified poor collaboration and difficulty sharing data as causes. To foster easier collaboration and data sharing, we discuss a couple of Radiant Earth initiatives - Source Cooperative and Cloud Native Geospatial Forum. An example of results from the latter is Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide. Additionally, CNG Virtual Conference 2024. Recordings here, example:
Jed peppered the conversation with references to several people, organisations and resources. I’ve listed them:
Cloud Native Geospatial Forum conference: 30 April to 2 May 2025 at Snowbird in Utah.
STAC - SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs.
Taylor Geospatial Engine field boundaries for agriculture. Also mentioned in the episode with Nadine of Taylor Geospatial Institute:
EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products. Also mentioned in the episode with Iphy Anthony on Aya Data:
Cloud Object Storage - Amazon S3.
Scalable geospatial compute:
Wherobots - subject of another episode
Personalities:
Jed was an incredibly effective communicator. He also wins for having the best microphone of any guest so far. Thanks Jed for being up for this.
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