Space in the clouds : new technologies for geospatial data processing and analysis
Thursday, May 7 2026 09:30AM-04:30PM
Hybrid - McGill University and online
Language of the workshop: English
This one-day workshop will introduce new technologies for analyzing and displaying geospatial data in R and Python. With new cloud-optimized geospatial data formats, a revolution is happening in the geospatial world that removes the need for complicated servers and tools. In this workshop, we will explore some key open source formats and tools that can be used for geospatial data analysis today. Instructor: Guillaume Larocque
Workshop content
- Cloud-optimized GeoTiffs for raster data
- STAC catalogs and gdalcubes in R
- GeoParquets and DuckDB for analysis of vector data
- PMTiles and MapsGL in R for interactive maps.
