FedGeoDay 2025 | Demonstrations: Open Source Geospatial Applications for Resilience - Questions

This video segment covers the question and answer portion of the "Open Source Geospatial Applications for Resilience" demonstration session at FedGeoDay 2025. A key question is posed to Karen Townsend of Sea Island Software regarding the effort required to integrate the various data sources used in the Hurrvac application. Karen explains that it's a significant, long-term development effort involving a small team with deep knowledge of diverse data formats, including traditional text-based weather service products and modern raster data sets for probabilistic forecasting. She highlights the continuous work needed to keep pace with new data products and formats from sources like the National Hurricane Center and NOAA, noting that not all data is currently available in modern, easily integrated formats like STAC. The session concludes due to time constraints, with the moderator thanking the presenters. • Features the audience Q&A session for the panel on Open Source Geospatial Applications for Resilience. • A question is directed to Karen Townsend about the effort of integrating diverse data sources for Hurrvac. • Karen explains it's a long-term development effort involving a six-person team and years of knowledge of different data sources. • Mentions challenges with traditional text-based data formats (like weather service marine products) and integrating new raster-based probabilistic forecasting data. • Highlights the continuous need to keep pace with new data formats and products from the National Hurricane Center and NOAA. • Notes that not all data sources are currently available in modern formats like STAC. • The moderator thanks the presenters and concludes the session due to time limitations. For more content like this check out www.projectgeospatial.com #FedGeoDay #Geospatial #OpenSource #Resilience #EmergencyManagement #DataIntegration #Hurrvac #NOAA #DataManagement #QandA #GeospatialData