490 nm · BLUE-GREEN
Sam Silver.
Software engineer for geospatial systems — from pixel to pipeline.
A portfolio of work across the electromagnetic spectrum. Cloud-native remote sensing, geo data infrastructure, and the occasional model trained on petabytes of pixels.
Featured work · Across the spectrum
Recent cases.
C-band (5.4 GHz) SAR
Archipelago
A backend service that turns fresh Sentinel-1 GRD scenes into flood extent rasters on a ~6-hour revisit, built on cloud-native geospatial formats end-to-end.
560 nm Optical
Canopy Pulse
A small, personal experiment in weekly vegetation-index tracking, built on Sentinel-2 L2A via Planetary Computer, with a hexbin visualization of the change signal.
Recent writing
Notes and experiments.
- 2026-04-20 Building Groundstation Notes on why I'm building this site, what I want it to be, and what the visual system is trying to say. essay
- 2026-04-20 The Cloud-Native Geospatial Stack COG, STAC, GeoParquet, PMTiles — what they are, why they matter, and what they change about building with Earth observation data. essay