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Matthias Mohr
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Self-employed software engineer and consultant working on geospatial ☁ solutions. openEO, STAC and cloud-native geo. Also fixing my parents' computers. 🤪
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Two years ago we released Part 1 in our #STAC Retrospective series. This week we rolled out Part 2 to celebrate the news: STAC is an official @opengeospatial.bsky.social community standard!

In this edition Matt Hanson shares the secrets behind STAC's success.

element84.com/software-eng...
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
📢 It's been a long and sturdy way, but we've made it folks! STAC (including its API) is an official OGC community standard. Cheers to everyone involved! 🥳

www.ogc.org/announcement...
OGC Publishes SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium announces the publication of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Community Standard, enabling unified geospatial data access.
www.ogc.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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STAC Index was updated today. Various clean-ups both throughout the database and the code. :-)

Not on STAC Index yet? Submit your STAC work today: stacindex.org/add
STAC Index
stacindex.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Starting from today, the public demo deployment of STAC Browser at radiantearth.github.io/stac-browser/ is now running on @openlayers.org / ol-stac / stac-js. This is a major change, so problems are likely to occur. Please report any issues that you may find at github.com/radiantearth...
STAC Browser
radiantearth.github.io
July 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just created a new online checker for STAC, based on stac-node-validator v2: check-stac.moregeo.it
Feedback welcome :-)
STAC Online Checker
check-stac.moregeo.it
July 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
STAC Browser v3.3.5 has been released: github.com/radiantearth...
This is the last 3.3.x release before we have the big change in 3.4.0 that introduces ol-stac and stac-js.
Release v3.3.5 · radiantearth/stac-browser
Added New Indonesian locale #595 Better action documentation #354 Add ThreePipe and NASA-AMMOS 3DTilesRendererJS action #565 Removed Removed GeoParquet action for now #354 Remove geofox.ai actio...
github.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Members of the STAC and openEO PSC will be available at the ESA LPS for 1 on 1 discussions.

What moves you? @emmanuel.mathot.org, Alex Jacob and I would love to get into discussions with you!

Register at lps25.esa.int/open-science... => "Register for APEx / OpenEO / STAC one-to-one session"
Open Science In The Making - Living Planet Symposium 2025
Open Science will be brought to life at the ‘Open Science in the Making’ corner. Here, scientists and open source software developers will meet to discuss best practices in Open Science, collaborate to build user-driven expansion to open source tools and algorithms, FAIRify, integrate and share applications and data, and brainstorm the most popular open […]
lps25.esa.int
June 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🆕 #CNG2025 talk now available
In this presentation, Matthias talks about the efforts to standardize satellite imagery, making it more readily available and usable for immediate analysis.
youtu.be/vj4j4lJNyk0
[CNG 2025] The Future of ARD: Composable Building Blocks – Matthias Mohr
YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Created a PR for "Sortables" in the API Sort extension:
github.com/stac-api-ext...
Looking for feedback :-)
Add sortables and collection search #7 by m-mohr · Pull Request #12 · stac-api-extensions/sort
Related Issue(s): #7 Proposed Changes: Add support for sortables based on OGC API - Features - Part 5: Schemas Add the details about how to make sort available for collections / collection search....
github.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A new STAC link templates extension is open for review: github.com/stac-extensi...

This extension offers a way to expose templated URIs in STAC, based on OGC API - Records.
GitHub - stac-extensions/link-templates: A construct to provide templated links in STAC, as originally defined in OGC APIs.
A construct to provide templated links in STAC, as originally defined in OGC APIs. - stac-extensions/link-templates
github.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Welcome everybody, this will be awesome! 🥰

Happy to chair the PSC and lead us into the future. Big footsteps to fill though.
✨ Announcing the new STAC PSC!

▪️ Alex Leith (Auspatious)
▪️ Emmanuel Mathot @developmentseed.org
▪️ Julia Signell, @element84.com
▪️ Michelle Roby, @radiant.earth
▪️ Peter Gadomski, DevSeed

They join Matthias Mohr & Matthew Hanson to steer STAC’s future!
🔗 github.com/radiantearth...
April 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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IM FINALE, IM FINALE VON BERLIN!
#dfbpokal #dscb04
April 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
BERLIN! BERLIN! Wir fahren nach Berlin! ⬛◻️🟦 🤩 @arminia.de
a white cat is standing on its hind legs and pointing at the camera .
ALT: a white cat is standing on its hind legs and pointing at the camera .
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Heute nehme ich euch auf der #FOSSGIS2025 in Münster mit auf eine Reise durch die Geoportale Deutschlands (pretalx.com/fossgis2025/...) und am Freitag gibt es einen Lightning Talk zu Feldgrenzen, u.A. Standardisierung, ML Benchmark Datensatz, etc. (pretalx.com/fossgis2025/...).
Kommt vorbei.
Eine Reise durch die Geoportale Deutschlands FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2025
Im letzten Jahr musste ich Datensätze für Feldgrenzen in Deutschland finden. Was erst einmal einfach klingt endete mit einer Odyssee durch die verschiedensten Geoportale der Länder. Ich nehme euch auf...
pretalx.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Schon gewusst? Heute ist Tag der Vermessung und Geoinformation. Er wurde am 5. März 2012 anlässlich des 500. Geburtstages von Gerhard Mercator, dem berühmtesten Kartographen der Welt und Vater der modernen Vermessung, geschaffen. #Asterix #GIS
March 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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HALBFINAAAALEEEEEE!
#DSCSVW | #dfbpokal | 2:1
February 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"Is there another industry in the world where the buyer is willing to spend thousands of dollars and gets ghosted?" Great read by @kevinbullock.bsky.social kbullock.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Satellite Hunger Games
may the odds be ever in your favor
kbullock.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📖 Our latest paper has been published in Nature Scientific Data. We present key concepts for federated processing and related interoperability aspects based on openEO, a standardized EO cloud processing API, and openEO Platform, a federated public cloud platform.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Federated and reusable processing of Earth observation data - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Federated and reusable processing of Earth observation data
www.nature.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A small bugfix release has been published for STAC Browser:
github.com/radiantearth...
Release v3.3.1 · radiantearth/stac-browser
Bugfix release for STAC Browser v3.3.0: More actions for cesium (3Dtiles geofox), potree, static meshes (f3d), pmtiles, geoparquet (#465) Load queryables for Collections and Items only where appli...
github.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
📢 STAC Browser v3.3.0 has been released!

Some of the improvements:
- STAC v1.1.0 support
- Updated versions of STAC extensions
- New languages
- Better authentication system, supporting OpenID Connect, HTTP Basic and API keys
- Improved social sharing

More details at github.com/radiantearth...
Release v3.3.0 · radiantearth/stac-browser
STAC Browser v3.3.0 has been released! The upgrade may need changes to existing config files, which are detailed below and are highlighted in bold. Major improvements Support for STAC v1.1.0 New l...
github.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If anyone is using the STAC Browser options stacProxyUrl or redirectLegacyUrls, please respond here:
github.com/radiantearth...
It is planned to deprecate and remove them if they are not in use.
Deprecation of options · Issue #532 · radiantearth/stac-browser
Is anyone using one of the following options? stacProxyUrl (set to something else than null) redirectLegacyUrls (set to true) If yes, please respond here. Otherwise we'll deprecate these options so...
github.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
STAC Browser 3.3.0 is close to its release. Waiting for a couple of translations and last minute bugfixes. Give it a try at radiantearth.github.io/stac-browser/ and send any issues that you find to github.com/radiantearth...
STAC Browser
radiantearth.github.io
January 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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openEO is now on Bluesky!

import openeo
openeo.connect("bsky.app")
December 4, 2024 at 3:33 PM