S9E2: Care about COGs

We have a chat about the rise of cloud optimised geotiffs. In the news we mention elephants, Landsat 9 and #eochat. Amongst other things.

If you have questions, comments or corrections then you can contact Alastair (@ajggeoger) and Andrew (@map_andrew) on Twitter using #scenefromabove or @eoscenefrom

Shownotes:

• ONDA MOST announced 
• Elephants from space 
• Head Aerospace and its assets 
• "It’s not just about throwing flood maps over the fence and hoping people use them" 
• Landsat 9 launch date announced
•  Illegal Gold Mining down 78% in the Peruvian Amazon 
• #eochat Sundays 8-9pm GMT and Wednesdays 2-3pm GMT
• STAC and COG links:
• https://www.cogeo.org/
• • https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-cloud-optimized-geotiffs-cogs
  • https://geoexamples.com/other/2019/02/08/cog-tutorial.html
  • https://stacindex.org/
  • https://stacspec.org/ 

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