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1. Welcome to Belém From floating markets to flood-resilient neighborhoods, Cesium’s interactive 3D experience immerses users in the host city of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP30)—revealing how Belém, Brazil, is balancing climate adaptation,...
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The inaugural Cesium Developer Conference landed in Philadelphia this summer, bringing together a global crowd of developers, climate scientists, engineers, game designers, and space technologists. Over three days, they explored how open 3D geospatial technology is transforming the way we...
Needless repetition is something Apurba Tribedi cannot abide. It was a formative frustration: every year, the river near his childhood home in Malda, India, burst its banks. The floodwaters washed out local houses, destroyed possessions, and sometimes forced families to...
Setting foot on alien worlds is back on the agenda, big time. NASA’s Artemis program is aiming to send astronauts to explore parts of the lunar surface no human has ever visited — targeting rugged, shadowy terrain near the Moon’s...
David Settlemyer had a distinct knack for making the impossible seem inevitable. Armed with a Southern drawl and an arsenal of folksy colloquialisms — “as useful as socks on a rooster” was a favorite — the Kannapolis, North Carolina native...
A blood-red helicopter swooped low over a French village at the foot of Mont Blanc, dangling what looked like a miniature wrecking ball. Renaud Keriven feared that his enthusiasm for the project – for the chance to change how we...
For Roni Deitz, this work is personal. She grew up in New Jersey, so Deitz had never experienced a major hurricane. Then Hurricane Ike stormed ashore the Texas coastline in 2008, while she was an engineering student in Houston. “I...
Philadelphia can claim a variety of firsts — from where the first general-purpose digital computer was built to being home to the country’s first botanical garden. Let’s add another one: Hosting the inaugural Cesium Developer Conference, an event that brings...
Leopold Bloom, the protagonist in James Joyce’s Ulyssess, famously quipped that a “good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub.” Nearly a century later, Rory McCann solved the puzzle. The software developer and open data enthusiast has...
Ezzat Sabry hung up the phone call, overcome by excitement and pride. Geomatex, an Egyptian geo-intelligence firm where he serves as founder and managing director, had just been selected to help overhaul the legendary sound-and-light show at the Pyramids of...
Karl-Alexandre Jahjah is nearly impossible to catch off guard – or to outrun. He, where quick thinking means survival and glory. He also runs marathons, including one less than a year after rupturing his Achilles tendon. That mindset – face...