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Building a STAC server to avoid scanning 3.8 million tiles

The GeoTessera project produces 128-channel geospatial embeddings from Sentinel satellite imagery. The dataset is tiled at 0.1-degree resolution across the globe, covering 9 years and comprising roughly 3.8 million tiles, each containing embeddings and scale-factor files.

17 Apr 2026

Marc Elvers

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Tile Server

My throw-away comment at the end of my earlier post shows my scepticism that the JSON file approach was really viable.

02 Dec 2025

Marc Elvers

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Apache Parquet Files

If you haven’t discovered the Apache Parquet file format, allow me to introduce it along with ClickHouse.

17 Sep 2025

Marc Elvers

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Optimising Data Access in Parquet Files

Yesterday I wrote about the amazing performance of Apache Parquet files; today I reflect on how that translates into an actual application reading Parquet files using the OCaml wrapper of Apache’s C++ library.

17 Sep 2025

Marc Elvers

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