Ross Bernet

This Month We Learned — September 2020

By Jenny Fung, Karissa Justice and Ross Bernet on October 28th, 2020

A monthly blog on things Azaveans learned – at work or in the real world. This month features MapboxGLJS, Google Tag Manager, and basil.

Screenshot of the Global Forest Watch Pro map.

Software Engineering

Amazon Web Services and Amazon Rain Forests: A Software Architectural Review

By Ross Bernet on August 11th, 2020

WRI hired Azavea to perform a software architectural review to evaluate the technical organization of Global Forest Watch.

Company

This Month We Learned — June 2020

By Ross Bernet, Tyler Gilcrest and James Santucci on July 20th, 2020

This month we learned about Google Earth Engine apps, authenticating with the Google Sheets API, and making smaller tiffs for debugging with gdal_calc.py.

Screenshot of streets in the Curb LR Viewer.

Spatial Analysis

Maintaining Data on the Curb with CurbLR: A New Open Standard

By Ross Bernet and Simon Kassel on July 7th, 2020

CurbLR is a promising new open data specification for curb regulation. We used it to visualize and analyze Philadelphia's curb management approaches affect on traffic.

Screenshot of mapped building footprints in Cambodia.

Software Engineering

Building Footprint Comparison in Cambodia: Orbital Insight and OpenStreetMap

By Ross Bernet and Andrew Fink-Miller on January 23rd, 2020

We created a map that shows the difference between two building footprint datasets of Cambodia: OSM and Orbital Insights' AI generated dataset.

Screenshot of Rural Access Index data available for the south coast of Myanmar.

Spatial Analysis

Calculating Rural Road Access Globally Using Open Datasets

By Ross Bernet on December 20th, 2019

We used three open datasets to calculate the number of people in the world who do not have sufficient access to a road in an effort to move forward the conversation on the Rural Access Indicator (RAI).