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...

2025 was a big year for open geospatial at Dev Seed. From eoAPI to STAC‑GeoParquet to Zarr experiments and Global Nature Watch, shared tools and shared standards moved the ecosystem forward. Our work in 2026 is closing the last mile. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

2025 at Development Seed — Development Seed

A look back at 2025 through the projects, partnerships, and open-source communities that shaped our work and the lessons guiding us into 2026.

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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...

Groundwork 05 is out. We’ve been tinkering with lazycogs, browser‑native HEALPix tools, new deck.gl‑raster updates, and some surprising Pixelverse embedding experiments. If you like open‑source rabbit holes, take a look → 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

Zarr = cloud‑native, chunked data you can read fast and in parallel. It’s one of the simplest ways to work with massive geospatial datasets. We wrote about why it matters → developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

Zarr Everywhere — Development Seed

Virtual Access, Python Improvements, and Zarr Summit

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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!

Open‑source geospatial is where the real innovation is happening. Anthony + Wille’s ICTC session nailed it — practical tools, real impact, open collaboration. If this is your lane, come build with us. 📚 wildlabs.net/en/article/...

Relive ICTC 2026: Main stage Videos and Presentations now available! | WILDLABS

Whether you missed a parallel session in Lima, couldn't make the journey to Peru, or simply want to revisit the most inspiring main stage moments, you can now access the recordings and presentations generously shared by our community of speakers.

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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...

Our own Anthony Boyd crushed it on the ICTC main stage — open‑source geospatial tools powering real conservation + climate impact. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5U...

Interactive Storytelling with Open Source Tools

The first International Conservation Technology Conference (ICTC 20...

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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

CASEI = NASA’s inventory of airborne + field data. 50+ years of aircraft, balloons, UAVs, and field measurements, all searchable and interlinked. A clean window into NASA’s suborbital science history: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/tools/...

Nature is changing fast. Global Nature Watch helps us keep up. Open data + EO + scalable infrastructure = clearer signals about ecosystem health and change. Proud to support the cloud‑native backbone powering this work. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-1...

Global Nature Watch Turns Data into Environmental Intelligence — Development Seed

Turning science into insight you can use.

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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...

Big speedups in deck.gl-raster v0.7: Retina display support, faster GPU pixel filtering, minimized latency to render 200GB COGs, center-out tile loading developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... Thanks to @developmentseed.org for supporting this work!

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...

Cloud-native geospatial works because the data is shaped for compute. COGs, STAC, and tiling patterns let us stream just the bytes we need, when we need them. It’s the difference between downloading a whole dataset and interacting with data more like an API. 🔗 cloudnativegeo.org

Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum - CNG

Where geospatial data users create the future together.

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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...

NASA’s Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) is gearing up for its next biennial survey, the engine behind many of the most widely used Earth data products. The survey opens May 18, 2026! www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/featur...

Kicking off Development of New Earth Observation Solutions | NASA Earthdata

The Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) works to identify and address the Earth observation needs of civilian federal agencies. SNWG will soon launch its latest biennial survey to assess community needs, while reporting progress on previous solutions.

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If you're headed to FOSS4G 2026 in Japan and want to learn more about @developmentseed.org's production-ready geospatial stack, eoAPI, @alukach.com and I are hosting a workshop: talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026-... We'll be there to show how how to stand it up, answer questions, and generally chat!