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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

Many of these formats were designed in a pre-cloud world for users to download whole files for analysis on a local machine. As the complexity and size of geospatial datasets continue to grow, it is more time- and cost-efficient to leave the files in one place, virtually query the data, and download only the subset that is needed locally.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By 2008, the scenario was more or less complete, with the exception of the recovery phase, which has remained difficult to predict ever since (recovery from the 1918-1920 pandemic took about five years, but it included recovery from the First World War and it led into the Great Depression of 1929). Downloadable from [link] Alexander, D.E.

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