Special Issue from FOSS4G NA
Preface for the Special Issue
by Michele Tobias
This special issue emerges from the collaborative efforts of presenters at the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America (FOSS4G NA) 2025 conference, held in Reston, Virginia, November 3–5, 2025, a gathering organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation United States (OSGeo US) and other North American OSGeo chapters that brings together the developers and users who build, refine, and apply open-source geospatial tools, by the community and for the community.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
A cloud-native, machine learning-optimized tile grid For land cover analysis
by Thomas Maschler, Ryan McCarthy, & Christopher Anderson
Published September 4 2026
Computing Geospatial Analysis
Machine Learning Open Source
Remote Sensing
Accepted Articles
Engineering independent intensity and texture features for sample design, classification, regression, and clustering analyses using principal component analysis and convolution kernels
Texture, PCA, convolution, kernel weights, feature engineering
Mapping Community Capital: Revealing Local Gaps in Rural Access
Community Capitals Framework, spatial accessibility, rural planning, OpenStreetMap, QGIS, network analysis, service area analysis, open-source GIS
Articles Under Review
Estimating trail bridge impacts on rural populations in Rwanda with Python
Python GIS, free and open-source software for geospatial (FOSS4G), geospatial data science, gridded population datasets, rural transport infrastructure, population impact assessment, Rwanda
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