• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Litterally a scientist working with NASA data and it’s scientists and I’m not the intended audience?

    I’ve been in the remote sensing game almost 25 years. And a good amount of that at the federal government. I’ve sat at the table and shared beers and dinner with the chief scientists behind the modis and gedi mission. There isn’t a geospatial data type or format I haven’t encountered, and half of them I’ve buried.

    So please, spare this old hand any lectures.

    The fact is geospatial has been able to explode because we finally got away from these kinds of anachronistic approaches to data. It’s litterally never been a better time to be a geospatial data scientist. Praise be that the age of h5s and local processing is over.