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DESCRIPTION:I am the Founder and CTO of Blue Sky Analytics\, a Climate-Tech
  Startup using satellite-derived climate intelligence to power financial d
 ecisions. We provide datasets through API spanning flood\, drought\, wildf
 ire\, heat risk for monitoring\, measuring and mitigating climate risk whi
 ch can be leveraged for various use-cases.\n\nIn 2 years\, we have analyze
 d TBs of data\, delivered 5 datasets & built platforms for data visualisat
 ion and distribution from scratch using FOSS technology. This has been a r
 ocket-ship of a journey\, chasing our mission of building a ‘Bloomberg f
 or environmental data’.\n\nHowever\, the not-so-secret sauce to achievin
 g these milestones has been FOSS. We are often asked how we procure raw ge
 ospatial data and how much we spend on it. Thanks to the abundance of open
  data\, our data acquisition cost has been 0. Due to the generous open dat
 a policy of amazing organisations like NASA & ESA\, we have been able to b
 uild a business collecting TBs of data daily & crunching them into useful 
 insights.\n\nThis helped us scale our vision to build a global environment
 al data stack for tracking climate change in real-time. Moreover\, before 
 this data can be applied to climate mitigation\, it needs to be analysed. 
 This is true for any big data and today\, less than 1% of global data is a
 nalysed. \n\nGiven that satellite data is the most significant source of t
 racking climate variables\, it became imperative to tap this source. We di
 scovered that the path to providing environmental datasets was by building
  a powerful geospatial data refinery along with [SpaceTime™](https://spa
 cetime.blueskyhq.in/)  and our [dev portal](http://developer.blueskyhq.in)
 .\n\nThere was limited infrastructure available to support the delivery of
  geospatial datasets so we built it\, leveraging open-source tools like Po
 stgres\, QGis\, GDAL\, k8s etc.\n\nWhile we have proprietary layers to our
  models\, as a team of young developers\, data scientists and designers\, 
 many self-taught\, our cultural ethos stands firmly with FOSS and we plan 
 to be a leading contributor to FOSS for climate action. The most significa
 nt step for us in that direction has been providing annual\, country-wise 
 data on biomass emissions to the Al Gore-led [Climate TRACE](https://www.c
 limatetrace.org/) inventory that can be used by the public via CC-BY-4.0 f
 ramework.\n\nAs our business expands\, we aim to open-source tools & innov
 ations we have internally developed while building our infrastructure and 
 have started that journey with the [Raster Playground.](http://play.bluesk
 yhq.in)\n\nClimate change is the most pressing challenge of our times\, th
 rowing at us various questions that need to be answered. This is not possi
 ble without data. Data helps us understand the problem and quantify the ri
 sk to various assets. \n\nOpen source tools and data have made it possible
  for 20-year-old data scientists to access sophisticated satellite data to
  understand the changing planet and answer these questions. BSA is a testa
 ment to the fact that fighting climate change is not possible without FOSS
 .
DTSTAMP:20260404T100343Z
LOCATION:Room 4
SUMMARY:Building the Bloomberg for Climate Data with FOSS - Kshitij Purwar
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-2022/talk/EFDYKK/
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