CNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Julia Wagemann 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.
Beyond Open Data Introduction Introduction of the Beyond Open Data white paper written as a result of a CNG Forum 2025 breakout group effort.
Geo-Embeddings Sprint: Advancing Standards for Earth Observation Embeddings CNG, Planet, and Clark University co-hosted the Geo-Embeddings Sprint in Worcester to define patterns and best practices for storing, cataloging, and accessing EO embeddings—and launched geoembeddings.org as a living resource for the community.
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.