Radiant Earth, the leading technology nonprofit working to expand access to Earth science data, has launched two new initiatives: Source Cooperative and the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation. These two initiatives are designed to increase the sharing of Earth science data and accelerate scientific research that will increase the shared understanding of our world.
Source Cooperative is a neutral data publishing utility. It will offer a standardized mechanism for data providers to publish data products and configure access controls to ensure secure and ethical sharing of data. Source Cooperative will also allow data publishers to charge for access to data, creating a mechanism to sustainably fund the creation of new Earth science data products. Now in private beta, Source Cooperative is the next generation of Radiant MLHub, Radiant Earth’s data sharing service that has been used to publish data from organizations including NASA, Planet, the University of Maryland, Microsoft, and Stanford.
While Source Cooperative makes it easier for people to distribute and access data, the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation will accelerate the adoption of highly efficient patterns and best practices that make Earth data more accessible and easier to use.