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Exploring space faster

Exploring events from space is going to get a little easier. Below is a sneak peek of a simple and smart utility we're working on to save ourselves some time searching, downloading, and processing Landsat imagery.

Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 17:00

Extracting building height from Lidar

Lidar is similar to radar...but with lasers.

Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 12:00

Adding Context to Afghanistan Runoff Elections

Following the 2009 election in Afghanistan, this picture helped quantify the extent of elections fraud in that election.

Monday, July 28, 2014 - 18:00

Hello, SRCCON

Derek and I are excited to be at SRCCON in Philly this Thursday and Friday.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 17:00

Jekyll-hook Updated; Run your own Github Pages

We just released v0.2 for Jekyll-hook. We love GitHub and the simplicity of publishing sites to GitHub Pages.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 10:00

Opening an election, thank you Github

We just published our analysis "What Happened in the Afghanistan Elections?".

Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 16:00

Alireza joins Development Seed

We welcome engineer Alireza J to Development Seed. Alireza will be helping us to build smarter and faster.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 16:00

Visualizing Water Cut Backs in Las Vegas

Lake Mead, providing Las Vegas with 90 percent of its water needs, has reached its lowest water levels since its origina

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 11:00

Open Mapping Happy Hour in Berlin

We'll be at Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin next week talking about open data in elections,

Friday, July 11, 2014 - 13:30

Visualizing North Korea's Worst Drought in Decades

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) is experiencing its worst drought in over a decade.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 08:30