12-05, 10:00–10:30 (America/Belem), Room I
Over the past few years, the STAC community has witnessed an huge increase in adoption and implementation across various sectors. With its focus on interoperability and extensibility, STAC has successfully addressed the long-standing challenge of data fragmentation in the geospatial domain. By providing a unified framework for describing and accessing geospatial assets, STAC has empowered users to effortlessly discover and analyze vast amounts of Earth observation data.
Moreover, the emergence of an open-source ecosystem around STAC has been instrumental in its widespread adoption. A myriad of tools and libraries have been developed, enabling seamless integration of STAC into existing geospatial workflows. These tools encompass data providers, data processors, visualization platforms, and more, fostering a vibrant community-driven approach to solving complex geospatial challenges.
This presentation will provide insights into the current state of the STAC specification, including changes in 1.1 and the current set of STAC extensions with guidance on the use of extensions based on their maturity. In addition, we will provide an overview of the current STAC ecosystem, with a focus on the Python projects available in the stac-utils GitHub organization.
Matt Hanson is the Director of Aerospace at Element 84, a commercial geospatial consultancy that utilizes open-source to build solutions. With an education in Remote Sensing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he has been working with geospatial data for over 25 years. As an author and contributor to multiple open-source projects (starting with GeoNode in 2012), he has gone on to help create open standards, like STAC, as well as the open-source ecosystem around data interoperability.
A frequent speaker at geospatial conferences, this will be Matt's 10th international FOSS4G conference.