Shane Loeffler

Maps, software, and science

Shane Loeffler
Live Geoembeddings

Live Geoembeddings

Click a few spots on a map and similar places light up, or define land cover classes and get a classification map. AlphaEarth and TESSERA satellite embeddings are read straight from cloud storage with zarr-layer and scored on the GPU, entirely in the browser.

wiki-geoparquet

wiki-geoparquet

Every geotagged English Wikipedia article as GeoParquet and PMTiles, enriched from Wikidata and rebuilt monthly. The demo maps all of them and queries the Parquet directly in the browser with DuckDB.

DOR Efficiency Map

DOR Efficiency Map

Companion tool built at CarbonPlan with [C]Worthy for direct ocean removal. Explore how extracting CO₂ from seawater in a given region and season leads to carbon removal over time, and how storage losses change the result.

Visualizing billions of trees

Visualizing billions of trees

Worked with NASA scientists to visualize billions of tree crown polygons across the Sahara. Processed computer vision output on HPC systems to transform it for performant visualization in the browser. Cover story of Nature's March 2023 edition.