Applied Geospatial

Vibe Check Your Geospatial Foundation Model

with geovibes!

Sep 29 • 

Christopher Ren

9

Geospatial Platforms, Career Paths, Questions from Ep 1.

In this episode Chris and Krishna talk a little about their career paths, reply to some questions from listeners about Episode 1 concerning embeddings…

Sep 26 • 

Christopher Ren

1

1:03:43

We Started a Podcast

Yes, we spoke about embeddings

Sep 10 • 

Christopher Ren

3

1

Embeddings in Context: Tools for Geospatial Problem Solving

Chris and Krishna discuss their experiences working with geospatial embeddings, search and remote sensing in general, and how they think through…

Sep 9 • 

Christopher Ren

2

59:44

August 2025

Google is a Dream Killer

Don't Compete with Big Embeddings

Aug 8 • 

Christopher Ren

12

July 2025

Embedding Fields Forever

What Properties Should Geospatial Embeddings Have?

Jul 21 • 

Christopher Ren

8

Catastrophes are Commodities

and it makes me uncomfortable.

Jul 12 • 

Christopher Ren

7

5

The Economics of Earth Engine

How Much Does it Cost to Make a Map?

Jul 3 • 

Christopher Ren

8

6

June 2025

The Model is Not the Map

Please Look at the Data

Jun 21 • 

Christopher Ren

4

2

Closed Loop Metrics for Earth Observation

Waymo Scaling, Waymo Insights

Jun 16 • 

Christopher Ren

2

5

Model Scaffolding > Model Quality*

* Terms and Conditions Apply

Jun 1 • 

Christopher Ren

2

May 2025

Geospatial Foundational Disappointments

TLDR; After 10²¹ FLOPs and 500 B patches, IBM’s TerraMind beats a supervised U‑Net by just +2 mIoU on PANGAEA; losing on 5/9 tasks, most other GFMs do…

May 21 • 

Christopher Ren

12

5