<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(29,28,29);margin:4px 0px;padding:0px"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/torchgeo-organization-ibm-research/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/<span>torchgeo</span>-organization-ibm-research/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(29,28,29);margin:4px 0px;padding:0px"><br></div><div><div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(29,28,29);margin:4px 0px;padding:0px"></div><div style="color:rgb(29,28,29);margin:4px 0px;padding:0px">The <span>TorchGeo</span> Organization and IBM
Research are joining forces!<br>
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The <b style="font-weight:700">TerraTorch</b>
and <b style="font-weight:700">TerraKit</b>
libraries have joined the <span>TorchGeo</span> Organization! <span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://github.com/torchgeo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://github.com/<span>torchgeo</span></a></span>
is now home to 3 of the most influential and widely used
open-source GeoAI libraries:<br>
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<ul style="margin:4px 0px 4px 24px;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside"><li style="margin:2px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span>TorchGeo</span></a></span>: the
core of the geospatial deep learning ecosystem, with
more geospatial datasets and pre-trained foundation
models than all other GeoAI libraries combined</li><li style="margin:2px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://github.com/torchgeo/terratorch" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">TerraTorch</a></span>:
higher-level abstractions that build on top of
<span>TorchGeo</span> to make foundation model fine-tuning simple
and intuitive for users from all backgrounds</li><li style="margin:2px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://github.com/torchgeo/terrakit" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">TerraKit</a></span>:
provides connectors and interfaces for NASA, ESA, and
other data stores, allowing users to effortlessly
download and build AI-ready datasets</li></ul>
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To ensure even greater collaboration and long-term
maintenance of these libraries, we are also excited to
announce 2 new members joining our <span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://github.com/torchgeo/governance/blob/main/STEERING-COMMITTEE.md" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(18,100,163);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Technical Steering Committee</a></span>:<br>
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<ul style="margin:4px 0px 4px 24px;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside"><li style="margin:2px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://torchgeo.slack.com/team/U0A8BSKECQ4" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(232,245,250);color:rgb(18,100,163);padding:0px 2px;border-radius:3px;font-weight:500" target="_blank">@Romeo Kienzler</a></span>:
AI Research Engineer at IBM Research, co-creator and
maintainer of TerraTorch and TerraKit, and co-author
of Prithvi WxC</li><li style="margin:2px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><span style="color:inherit"><a href="https://torchgeo.slack.com/team/U0AKSFVQA6L" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(232,245,250);color:rgb(18,100,163);padding:0px 2px;border-radius:3px;font-weight:500" target="_blank">@Isabelle Wittmann</a></span>:
Research Software Engineer at IBM Research, maintainer
of TerraTorch, co-organizer of the Embed2Scale
EarthVision challenge, and Earth2Vec, TerraCodec, and
NeuCo-Bench co-author</li></ul>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><br>
Romeo and Isabelle's expertise in foundation models,
neural compression, and embeddings will further
strengthen the <span>TorchGeo</span> ecosystem, and ensure greater
collaboration and compatibility between all projects we
govern.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)">contact:
Brian M Hamlin <a href="mailto:maplabs@light42.com" target="_blank"><maplabs@light42.com></a> #osgeo
Project Mentor</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(29,28,29)"><img src="https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/terratorch-terrakit-scaled.png" width="578" height="363"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>