Robert Cheetham

Japan Earth Observer (JEO) newsletter #6 is out. There is May/June news on Japan's space, EO, and geospatial industry + some of my observations from recent conferences in Japan japanearthobserver.com/jeo-6-spacetid…

ℹ️#FOSS4G 2025 KANSAI 始まりました！ YouTubeでの配信もしておりますので、ぜひご覧ください！ 💁メイン会場 youtube.com/live/6O_dNRo4O… #foss4g #foss4gj

Japan Earth Observer (JEO) newsletter #5 is out. There is news on Japan's space, EO, and geospatial industry in April + a deep dive on space-related items in the defense budget; JMoD is going shopping for satellites japanearthobserver.com/jeo-5-jmod-goe…

Japan Earth Observer newsletter #2 is out. In addition to the news, there is a more detailed article about Japan’s QZSS regional navigation satellite constellation. Read and subscribe at japanearthobserver.com

"When your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real." The secret to joy, truth and health was revealed many decades ago by Thomas Merton.

A bad look for @Arcadis_NA to share a lobbying firm w/ National Fuel—which is blocking the #NYHEAT Act and locking NY into using more gas—when Arcadis has a contract for flood mitigation and trying to keep this from happening in Lower Manhattan again. See the full @fminusing @twittlesis report on NY’s double agent lobbyists who work for climate and fossil fuel clients fminus.org/report/new-yor…

Oil derrick sculpture made of post-wildfire materials. Share the Derrick!

Congratulations to @planet on the new SuperDoves as well as the first Pelican prototype making it to orbit today.

The US National Wetlands Inventory is now available as a cloud-native #geospatial format (GeoParquet) on @source_coop 🔥. A big shoutout to @jedsundwall for making it so much easy for me to contribute the first dataset to source.coop🫰Check out the link below on how to access and visualize the data using #leafmap, #duckdb, and #lonboard. Enjoy large geospatial data analysis and visualization in the cloud without have to download data to your computer 😎 beta.source.coop/repositories/g…

Great deep dive into the overture data. I think this dataset is going to keep getting better and better. I’ll be interested to see a follow up post from Mark in a year or two.

A new chapter of @womeningis for the Delaware Valley (the 10 counties around Philadelphia) is getting off the ground next week. The first event will be a networking reception on Tue, Nov 14, 5:30-7:30p survey123.arcgis.com/share/57ee7d79…

Guerilla Standards - @howardbutler talks about how standards are developed in practice, by the community of Implementors #foss4gna

Our friends at @developmentseed are always making great OS tools, @bitnerd presents on TiPg, a lightweight OGC Features API built on @postgis and @FastAPI #foss4gna

How @mouthofmorrison busts into a 14-person virtual meeting, five minutes late

I just released a new tool! A command-line interface (CLI) that takes an AOI (as GeoJSON) and downloads all the buildings from @OvertureMaps or Google Open Buildings datasets to your computer, in the format of your choice (gpkg, shp, etc) Get it at github.com/opengeos/open-…...

Umbra is officially working with NASA now 🚀🚀🚀 nasa.gov/news-release/n…

Come on down, researchers! 🌳🌋🌊🪸 @NASA has extended our CSDA Agreement through 2024, granting approved researchers access to Planet’s deep archive of satellite data for scientific use and Earth science applications. investors.planet.com/news/news-deta…

Congratulations to @NASA for deciding to continue using New Horizons to explore the outer solar system nasa.gov/missions/new-h…

We are excited to welcome a diverse group of experts to @ClarkUniversity this week for the official launch of @ClarkCGA . clarknow.clarku.edu/2023/09/20/cla… #geospatial #geospatialanalytics #remotesensing #gischat