From xurxosanz at gmail.com  Mon May  4 12:44:27 2026
From: xurxosanz at gmail.com (Jorge Sanz)
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 21:44:27 +0200
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] TorchGeo and IBM TerraTorch Join Forces
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https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/torchgeo-organization-ibm-research/

The TorchGeo Organization and IBM Research are joining forces!

The *TerraTorch* and *TerraKit* libraries have joined the TorchGeo
Organization! https://github.com/torchgeo is now home to 3 of the most
influential and widely used open-source GeoAI libraries:


   - TorchGeo <https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo>: the core of the
   geospatial deep learning ecosystem, with more geospatial datasets and
   pre-trained foundation models than all other GeoAI libraries combined
   - TerraTorch <https://github.com/torchgeo/terratorch>: higher-level
   abstractions that build on top of TorchGeo to make foundation model
   fine-tuning simple and intuitive for users from all backgrounds
   - TerraKit <https://github.com/torchgeo/terrakit>: provides connectors
   and interfaces for NASA, ESA, and other data stores, allowing users to
   effortlessly download and build AI-ready datasets


To ensure even greater collaboration and long-term maintenance of these
libraries, we are also excited to announce 2 new members joining our Technical
Steering Committee
<https://github.com/torchgeo/governance/blob/main/STEERING-COMMITTEE.md>:


   - @Romeo Kienzler <https://torchgeo.slack.com/team/U0A8BSKECQ4>: AI
   Research Engineer at IBM Research, co-creator and maintainer of TerraTorch
   and TerraKit, and co-author of Prithvi WxC
   - @Isabelle Wittmann <https://torchgeo.slack.com/team/U0AKSFVQA6L>:
   Research Software Engineer at IBM Research, maintainer of TerraTorch,
   co-organizer of the Embed2Scale EarthVision challenge, and Earth2Vec,
   TerraCodec, and NeuCo-Bench co-author


Romeo and Isabelle's expertise in foundation models, neural compression,
and embeddings will further strengthen the TorchGeo ecosystem, and ensure
greater collaboration and compatibility between all projects we govern.

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contact:  Brian M Hamlin  <maplabs at light42.com> <maplabs at light42.com>
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From xurxosanz at gmail.com  Fri May  8 06:05:07 2026
From: xurxosanz at gmail.com (Jorge Sanz)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 15:05:07 +0200
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL 3.13.0 "Iowa City" is released
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https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-13-0-iowa-city-is-released/

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.13.0 ?Iowa City?.

GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file
formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several
languages, and a variety of command line tools.

http://gdal.org/

The 3.13.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

   - New gdal command line interface capabilities:
      - gdal vector combine
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_combine.html>
      (#13895)
      - gdal vector concave-hull
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_concave_hull.html>
      - gdal vector convex-hull
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_convex_hull.html>
      - gdal vector create
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_create.html> (#14210)
      - gdal vector dissolve
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_dissolve.html>
      (#13985)
      - gdal vector export-schema
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_export_schema.html>
      (#14156)
      - gdal vector update
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_update.html>
      - gdal vector rename-layer
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_rename_layer.html>
      (#14132)
      - gdal vector sort
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_sort.html> (#13351)
      - gdal dataset check
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_dataset_check.html>
      - gdal driver cog validate
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_driver_cog_validate.html>
      (uses validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py underneath)
      - gdal driver gpkg validate
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_driver_gpkg_validate.html>
      (uses validate_gpkg.py underneath)
      - gdal pipeline: add an external
      <https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_external.html> step to run
      an external command
   - Zarr: various improvements in Zarr V3 support (sharding), support for
   multiscales, spatial and proj extensions for EOPF Visualization products.
   - COG driver: implement GDALDriver::Create() for random write creation
   - Add E57 <https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/e57.html> read-only
   raster driver to read 2D images from ASTM E2807 (E57) files
   - Add SAR Compensated Phase History Data (CPHD)
   <https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/cphd.html> multi-dimensional
   read-only driver (#14310)
   - MiraMonRaster: add creation support (#13960)
   - JP2GROK <https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/jp2grok.html>:
   read/write driver for JPEG-2000 using Grok JPEG 2000 toolkit (the toolkit
   is AGPL v3 licensed)
   - S102/S104/S111 driver: add write support
   - NITF driver: add support for CADRG writing
   <https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/nitf.html#cadrg-compressed-arc-digitized-raster-graphics-write-support>
   - Add support for INTERLIS 2.4
   - Make cloud users aware of commercial cloud providers that don?t
   sponsor the project and whose cloud storage protocol may be removed in the
   future (#14313)
   - Revert removal of OGR Tiger and UK. NTF drivers (but still to be
   considered as living on borrowed time)
   - Bump of shared lib major version

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.13.0
release can be found at:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.0/NEWS.md

Please also consult the migration guide when updating from prior releases:

https://gdal.org/en/latest/user/migration_guide.html#from-gdal-3-12-to-gdal-3-13

The release can be downloaded from:

   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz ? source as
   .tar.gz
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.md5 ? md5sum
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.sig ?
   signature
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz ? source as
   .tar.xz
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.md5 ? md5sum
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.sig ?
   signature
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip ? source as a zip
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.md5 ? md5sum
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.sig ? signature
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdalautotest-3.13.0.zip ? test
   suite
   - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130doc.zip ? documentation
   / website

Docker images are available:

   - ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-3.13.0
   - ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.13.0
   - ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-3.13.0
   - ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-3.13.0

Best regards,

Even
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