Jarrett Keifer

Jarrett Keifer is a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer at Element 84, a commercial geospatial consultancy that uses open-source to build effective customer solutions. His interests include education and outreach, geospatial data formats, and high-performance systems/network programming. He enjoys designing systems to operate at scale, particularly to support remote sensing data processing and earth science applications, and has over ten years of experience contributing to open source projects.


Sessions

08-30
10:00
180min
Exploring Cloud Native Geospatial Data Formats: Hands-on with Rasters
Jarrett Keifer

Dig into three cloud-native raster formats—COGs, Zarr, and Kerchunk—and learn how data access works under the hood with hands-on Python exercises, no image libraries required!

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08-31
14:00
180min
Exploring Cloud Native Geospatial Data Formats: Hands-on with Vectors
Jarrett Keifer

Dig into geospatial vector formats—including GeoJSON, WKT/WKB, and cloud-native GeoParquet—using Python to see in detail how vector features are stored in each format and to understand what cloud-native means for vector data.

601