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Geospatial embeddings

New spatial data workflows typically face the same demands: acquire raw input data, compute derived variables, and build an analysis pipeline. Each new region or use case requires domain experts to repeat most of this work from scratch.

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Towards mutualism: reconciling differences between field and EO data

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Hello Cecil community, I’m Chris, Lead Scientist of the Forest Ecosystems team at Planet. It’s nice to meet you!

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New York Climate Week

We have a lot of exciting newsletters planned for the rest of the year. But before we get there, here’s a quick update from Cecil. Let’s see if we can meet up at New York Climate Week!

Two major collaborations announced

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Operating in spite of uncertainty

The map is not the territory.

This expression from Alfred Korzybski – that a map is a model of reality, not reality itself – could not be more apt for nature data. Every dataset we create is a model of nature. But nature is a mosaic of int...

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