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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Dev Seed’s Leo Thomas heads to Huntsville next week for the ESA–NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Models for EO. He’ll speak May 20 on GeoAI agents and how agentic workflows help analysts go from “What’s happening here?” to actual insights with cloud‑native EO data. nikal.eventsair.com/2nd-esa-nas...

Big models aren’t the only way to solve geospatial problems. Gazet, a tiny geocoder powered by a sub-1B model that runs on a CPU, uses open data and turns natural-language queries into spatial SQL. Small, open, deployable anywhere. Read more: ds.io/gazet

Reconstructing fish tracks from depth + temperature data is hard. Scaling it to hundreds of fish is even harder. In GFTS, we used pangeo‑fish, JupyterHub, DestinE Digital Twins, & custom HEALPix layer to make it all work in the browser. Open-source tools for a changing ocean. ds.io/fish-tracking

EO folks at EGU — come hang with us! We’re hosting a happy hour with Asterisk Labs on May 5 after the conference day ends. Drinks, snacks, good people, and space to talk shop (or not). We'll be at the Schani UNO City Hotel, a quick walk from the venue. RSVP (limited spots): luma.com/9fgehurt

Dev Seed is heading to EGU in Vienna May 3-8! We’re sharing work on: - Open science tooling - LLMs for scientific data access - Zarr at scale - Cloud + HPC workflows - FAIR, open EO pipelines - Virtual Zarr for ensemble prediction systems If you’re at EGU, come say hi! More info: www.egu26.eu

Nearly 90% of fisheries are fully exploited. Sustainable management starts w/ knowing where fish live & migrate across their full life cycle. GFTS combines biologging + climate projections to map habitats & routes on the DestinE Platform. Open science → operational insight. ds.io/fish-tracking

Fish don’t stay put — they migrate through spawning grounds, feeding areas, and long corridors. But most policy still relies on catch locations. We helped build the Global Fish Tracking System with @Ifremer and @SimulaRL to change that.

Groundwork 04 is our quarterly look at small, practical experiments by our team that are shaped by real questions we’re hearing across the cloud-native geospatial community. GeoAI agents. Browser-native raster rendering. STAC tooling. Transit data as GeoParquet. ds.io/groundwork04

NASA Earthdata just got a major boost. GIBS + EGIS mapping services are now integrated into the VEDA platform, giving users one place to explore and analyze Earth science data. Open standards → less duplication, more capability, truly cloud‑native workflows www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/alerts-...

Sentinel data is moving to Zarr. The real question: is the ecosystem ready? We built the EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer with @esa.int , @eox.at & @thrivegeo.bsky.social to demonstrate cloud-native Sentinel workflows in practice: 🧵 1/2

Anthony Boyd and Wille Marcel are speaking at ICTC 2026 in Lima 🇵🇪 On Feb 19, they’ll share practical ways to choose open-source geospatial tools based on real project needs, plus a lightning talk on interactive storytelling with NASA’s VEDA. Hope to see folks there. Hablamos español.

Just published: our story working with the Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics to make climate science and satellite data practical for local decision-making. Tutorials & an interactive dashboard are open and reusable. Read more: ds.io/vanuatu