The Technical Debt of Earth Embedding Products Every geospatial foundation model team solves the hard problem — training on petabytes of imagery. Nobody solves the easy one: letting other people use the output.
2025 Zarr Summit Recap The first Zarr Summit in Rome brought together developers and adopters from around the world, resulting in significant technical prototypes, a new conventions framework, lasting cross-community connections, and overwhelming enthusiasm for future community gatherings.
STAC+Zarr Community Sprint 2025 Recap The first European STAC sprint brought together developers at ESA ESRIN to establish practical patterns and best practices for integrating STAC with Zarr for cloud-native multidimensional geospatial data.
CNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Stephanie May Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, and the challenges they believe our community should focus on.