Robert Cheetham
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OpenDataPhilly. Japan Earth Observer newsletter. Open data, open source, geospatial data, map algebra and remote sensing. Opinions are my own.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2008
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
A monthly news roundup plus some observations on the SPACETIDE and FOSS4G Kansai conferences.
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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 https://t.co/qzEclz8G1i
#foss4g #foss4gj
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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
A monthly news roundup and a deep-dive on the Japan Ministry of Defense (JMoD) space-related budget.
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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
A newsletter on the space, Earth observation, and geospatial industry in Japan.
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"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.
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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
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Oil derrick sculpture made of post-wildfire materials. Share the Derrick!
Sculptor Lou Bernadette made this oil derrick from materials salvaged from OR's 2020 wildfires for our protest of @PDXArtMuseum employing #fossilfuel lobbyists. Check out the @fminusing lobbyist list and tell us where to put the derrick next!
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Congratulations to @planet on the new SuperDoves as well as the first Pelican prototype making it to orbit today.
Launch success! 🚀🛰️💫 We've established contact with all 37 satellites launched today by @SpaceX. Learn more about our sats onboard: https://t.co/zsnf4LI6Lk
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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 https://t.co/xOYML5vMWM🫰Check out the link below on how
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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.
@OvertureMaps's Global Geospatial Datasets https://t.co/HI3UCkx6h4 This is a review of their 3 releases including their latest, 327 GB release from a few weeks ago. Credit: Overture and the Estonian Land Board
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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
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Guerilla Standards - @howardbutler talks about how standards are developed in practice, by the community of Implementors #foss4gna
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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
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How @mouthofmorrison busts into a 14-person virtual meeting, five minutes late https://t.co/4GifZXFo81
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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 https://t.co/l7pkjNg6Wf...
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Umbra is officially working with NASA now 🚀🚀🚀 https://t.co/BfpemVaAGk
nasa.gov
NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the agency’s Earth science research.
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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. https://t.co/NaLA6JNrmc
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Congratulations to @NASA for deciding to continue using New Horizons to explore the outer solar system
nasa.gov
NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
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We are excited to welcome a diverse group of experts to @ClarkUniversity this week for the official launch of @ClarkCGA . https://t.co/4sYjev5jRX
#geospatial #geospatialanalytics #remotesensing #gischat
clarku.edu
‘We need to design our adaptation strategy to this changing climate, and that’s where geospatial analytics can help us’
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