I have always said that the ESA's Aeolus mission mission from ESA Earth Observation is an underrated EO satellite with a very high impact per observation. Now, thanks to a study from London Economics, LE we can quantify that - the benefits of the missions are estimated to be about €10.6B! Let's unpack 🧵

Diffusion models like #DALLE and #StableDiffusion are state of the art for image generation, yet our understanding of them is in its infancy. This thread introduces the basics of how diffusion models work, how we understand them, and why I think this understanding is broken.🧵

Hey SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog curious folks! Pete Gadomski is adding STAC output of the gdal org `gdalinfo -json` command github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pul… which was an idea hatched at #FOSS4G2022 because good things happen when people meet in person 🙂

🏆 We have a winner🎉 - Planetary Computer is now CORS-friendly (thanks Rob Emanuele). Easy STAC asset rendering (with reprojection support) coming to a mapping library near you soon! 20l25l.csb.app

I am so excited that Felt has brought Erica Fischer on board and is investing in Tippecanoe. I learned about it less than a year ago when I came back to 'vector', and became convinced that it is _the_ key project to get us to a 'cloud-native vector' format.

An overview by Tom Augspurger of how Microsoft Planetary Computer uses SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog and cloud-optimized file formats for exposing nearly 50pb of data #satsummit

Thank you and farewell, Bruno! Proud to be taking on leadership of this amazing team in collaboration with a strong coalition of sustainability-focused leaders at Microsoft. Great things ahead for the Planetary Computer - stay tuned!

Are you a senior level software engineer? Come work at @microsoft and build the Planetary Computer with us! aka.ms/build-the-plan…

Aaron’s story needs to be told more in the #OpenScience movement. I was at MIT when he was unjustly prosecuted for downloading paywalled journal articles from the campus network and making them open access. He ended up losing his life over it. 1/

On Monday 23rd I'll host a livestream with @brunosan, Qiusheng Wu & @datamongerbonny to run the same analysis using Microsoft's Planetary Computer, Google Earth Engine & QGIS respectively Monday 23rd Jan at 8:30pm UTC - 21:30 CET - 3:30pm EST on Minds Behind Maps YT channel

Introducing ClimaX, the first foundation model for weather and climate. A fast and accurate one-stop AI solution for a range of atmospheric science tasks. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2301.10343 Blog: microsoft.com/en-us/research… Thread🧵 #ML #Climate #Weather #FoundationModel

Glad to see that these two great organizations are joining forces. I worked at Azavea for many years, have worked with both companies building out the Planetary Computer, and have a huge amount of respect for them both. Can't wait to see the awesome things they will do together!

Reading through the Segment Anywhere Model (SAM) paper, some notes & insights as I do so in this Twitter thread. This whole paper is quite incredible actually, very strong work 1/n arxiv.org/pdf/2304.02643…

Introducing segment-geospatial, A Python package for segmenting geospatial data with the Segment Anything Model (SAM) GitHub: github.com/opengeos/segme… Docs: samgeo.gishub.org Notebook: samgeo.gishub.org/examples/satel… #segmentanything #deeplearning #geopython

Congrats @[email protected], and thank you for all that you've done! Legend.

damn, microsoft cooking this week: new postgres plugin for vscode ◆ schema visualizer ◆ database explorer in the file navigator ◆ query history ◆ intellisense

This is what I've been working on in 2025 - specifically the copilot/agent mode integration. If you use Postgres, check it out!

David Soria Parra Harald @ AIE Tyler Leonhardt Connor Peet Figma Sean Roberts Netlify Debbie O'Brien Playwright GitHub Extending agent mode isn't just about MCP, it's about extensions too! Rob Emanuele will demo the new PostgreSQL extension and its agent mode capabilities in VS Code. youtube.com/live/T44T55wvD…

Really enjoyed this, well written and got some laughs. And I agree! substack.com/home/post/p-16…