TerraFrame, Inc.

?? ???? ?????? ???????? ?????????????? ?????? ???????? ?????? ????????????????????! ?????? 2024 has been a year of continued growth and innovation, as we have led the development of digital public goods, knowledge graph infrastructure, Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructures, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). ~ ?????? ?????????????????????? ~ TerraFrame has developed methods for bringing geospatial awareness into Large Language Models (LLMs) that enable the creation of geospatial applications that use natural language queries. TerraFrame is part of the $40 million Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative. TerraFrame developed an approach to make aerial sensor outputs stored in a SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) index Knowledge-Interoperable (Know-STAC), which is released as an open-source project. ?????????????? ?????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ?? The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) selected TerraFrame to research methods for using Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and AI for the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot (CDRP). ?? TerraFrame’s work with OGC was funded, in part, by the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee. ?? TerraFrame built a spatial knowledge graph connecting water and civil infrastructure for a U.S. government agency for climate resilience. ?? TerraFrame continues exploring requirements with OGC for potential standards and approaches for automating interoperability of SDIs and spatial knowledge graphs for AI that are sustainable, even in lower-resourced settings.? ?? A Resource Description Framework (RDF) explorer developed by TerraFrame helped a U.S. government agency understand the geographic relationship between related civil infrastructure projects. ???????????????? ???????????????? GeoPrism Registry was renewed as a digital public good while TerraFrame continues to grow the community. ?????????????? ???????? ?????????????? (??????) ?? Continued growth and development across the Dept. of Interior. ?? Big release milestone with version 1.0.0! ?? 163% increase in users in 2024. ?? Major enhancements developed in collaboration with the IDM community. ???????????? ?????????? ?? The United Nations Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) Annual Members Meeting Panel Discussion on Harnessing Digital Public Goods for Climate Action ?? Open Geospatial Consortium Members Meetings in Montreal, Canada, and Goyang, South Korea ?? Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) North America on the development of TerraFrame’s Know-STAC implementation ?? Cloud Native Geospatial Forum on The Role of Cloud Native Geospatial in Government ???????? ???? ???????????? ???? ???????? We at TerraFrame are excited to be working with our partners and customers to bring geospatial awareness to LLMs at scale and to apply the approach to impactful use cases! #govtech #ai #knowledgegraph

We're hosting a workshop next month (April 23, 2025) at FedGeoDay! This will be a great opportunity to gain insights from our CEO Nathan McEachen for how to bring geospatial awareness to LLMs. More info coming soon! https://lnkd.in/ggQZjjcM #ai #geoai #govtech #knowledgegraph

We're happy to be speaking on Earth and Climate: GeoAI DWG panel at the OGC members meeting on March 5th. Our CEO Nathan McEachen will speak about "A Method for Building an AI Virtual Assistant With Geospatial Awareness of Feature Networks Using Spatial Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models: Learnings From the OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024." Please reach out to meet or ask questions! We're always happy to be connecting with the OGC community and contributing to the growth of digital public goods. https://lnkd.in/gz_hy-n4 #ai #opensource #digitalpublicgoods #govtech

Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support 'Geo' formats! This is an exciting development for the geospatial sector, and it particularly highlights the continued innovation in cloud-native table formats, especially Iceberg. These open standards have been a game changer in the data ecosystem, breaking down the walled gardens created by major platform providers. The data ecosystem has long suffered from a fundamental disconnect: while software engineering practices have matured with robust version control, dependency management, and collaboration tools, data management remains fragmented and platform-dependent. We'd never fork a codebase without proper version control, yet duplicating datasets across systems is standard practice. While dependency management is streamlined in software development, tracking lineage across datasets built through complex data pipelines remains a persistent challenge. Major platform providers have capitalized on these gaps, creating walled gardens where advanced features like lineage tracking, access controls, and performance optimizations are tied exclusively to their infrastructure. The data marketplaces hosted by these platforms also favor consumers and the platform itself, with little innovation benefiting data owners. These owners lack the telemetry needed to implement alternative revenue models—there's no direct equivalent of API metering in the data world—beyond flat pricing. Cloud-native formats are changing this paradigm.?By storing data in an open format, you can seamlessly use different compute engines—Spark, DuckDB, Flint, Trino, Dremio, or others—without loading data into proprietary storage. This approach eliminates vendor lock-in, removes data duplication, preserves a single source of truth, and enables selecting the ideal execution engine for each workload, delivering both high performance and genuine portability. This transformation is particularly significant for small and medium-sized companies, allowing them to choose from a broader set of platform-agnostic tools. At Foursquare, we have innovated with organizations like Astronomer, Acryl Data, and Privacera to create an interoperable data ecosystem unconstrained by the technical limitations or business interests of major platform providers. We are hoping to bring some of these innovations to the broader geospatial sector very soon. Special mention to Chris Holmes, Jia Yu and Jed Sundwall for all their efforts in creating an open geospatial ecosystem.

Lots of interesting geospatial ML projects have been emerging in recent years ??

Source Cooperative can use your help. Last week, Harvard's Library Innovation Lab announced that it had published over 311,000 federal datasets from data.gov on Source Cooperative, our data publishing utility. The announcement was covered in Reuters ("Harvard law library acts to preserve government data amid sweeping purges") and reached the front page of Hacker News, driving our daily site traffic up by 1,764%. The bad news here is obvious: government data resources used by people all over the world are at risk, and it's time to prepare for a future in which research budgets are more constrained and less reliant on government funding. The silver lining is that we built Source as a neutral, independent, and nonprofit data publishing utility precisely to prepare for this scenario. While still in beta, Source now hosts over 600 terabytes of data. In addition to the data.gov archive, we host NASA AI training datasets, the world's largest collection of AI-ready satellite imagery, the largest known corpus of agricultural field boundaries, and the most comprehensive dataset of building footprints ever assembled. Last week alone, we served over 17 million data requests and transferred 110 terabytes from our service. This is typically when someone in my position says we need your help to keep up with demand during this time of crisis. The truth is that we don’t need help keeping up with demand because we're very good at building data sharing infrastructure. All of our systems scaled effortlessly last week. We *do* need help taking Source to the next level – taking it out of beta and turning it into a durable institution that can serve the global community of researchers, entrepreneurs, and analysts who need reliable access to trustworthy data more than ever. We're a small nonprofit (just three full-time staff), supported by a team of contractors and fellows that include veteran developers from Google, AWS, and Hugging Face. We've proven we can provide massive-scale infrastructure with a small team and lean budget. We're seeking grant funding to scale our impact across three areas: 1. Feature Development: Supporting engineers and designers to enhance performance, usability, multi-cloud capabilities, and security 2. Education & Outreach: Staff to support new users, creating better training content and improving user experience for non-technical users 3. Business Model Development: Planning our path to financial sustainability through proper legal structure and revenue model development If you are in a position to fund infrastructure to make trustworthy data reliably available to solve global challenges, please contact me at [email protected] #OpenData #DataScience #Research #Innovation #Nonprofit

GeoPrism Registry has been recertified as a United Nations Digital Public Good and is now recognized for its relevance to the Sustainable Development Goal #13: Climate Action! https://lnkd.in/gCpfChW6 #digitalpublicgoods #opensource #govtech

I want to thank the Digital Public Goods Alliance team for organizing a fantastic Annual Members Meeting in Singapore last month! Digital Public Goods (DPGs) and Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs) can enable the large-scale collaboration needed to attain the Sustainable Development Goals! #DPGA #AMM24 #DPGs?#SDGs #digitalpublicgoods?

We are committed to building digital public goods to support climate action. Thanks to Digital Public Goods Alliance for organizing this community and bringing so many innovative leaders together! "DPGA members including FAO, Creative Commons, DIAL, and Open Knowledge Foundation joined DPG product owners from the World Resources Institute (Energy Access Explorer)?and TerraFrame (GeoPrism) to explore collaborative, interoperable approaches to catalyse climate action through DPGs." https://lnkd.in/gdn6ZAp5

We had a great time at the Digital Public Goods Alliance meeting in Singapore speaking on digital public infrastructure. It’s clear that location is a key component of digital infrastructures. We're working on open source tools to make this more robust than ever. #opensource #digitalpublicgoods #digitalinfrastructure #gis #geospatial #locationtech