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Stephen Conklin · Geospatial Analyst & Developer

How I work, as a pipeline.

Raw data on the left, people on the right, and everything in between. Hover or tap any box to trace where it comes from and where it goes.

DataWhat comes in

Tools I buildPipelines, plugins, apps, maps

ProductsWhat comes out

PeopleWho it’s for

Common threads

Approaches that recur across the projects and where you can see them.

The Wildfire Analysis Toolkit dialog in QGIS, filled in for the Dragon Bravo Fire

Automate the whole job

A run should start from one dialog or one config file, not a checklist. The Wildfire Analysis Toolkit goes from a fire perimeter to a severity map and report in one dialog, in about two minutes; the HLS pipeline and NAIP Harvest each run from a single config file.

Wildfire Analysis Toolkit · HLS VI Pipeline · NAIP Harvest M2M

Burn severity classes for the Dragon Bravo Fire produced by the Wildfire Analysis Toolkit

Check it against a reference

Results are tested against published data. Given MTBS’s own images, perimeters and thresholds, the Wildfire toolkit reproduces the federal burn-severity classes with a mean Cohen’s kappa of 0.78, and every satellite scene is calibrated from its own metadata.

Wildfire Analysis Toolkit

The Manage tab of Jetstream2 Dashboard Deploy, showing service status, storage and logs

Build it to keep running

Long jobs and live apps fail in ordinary ways, so they’re built to recover: NAIP downloads resume where they stopped, the HLS pipeline works one tile at a time to keep disk use low, and deployed dashboards restart on a crash, with a watchdog for apps that stop answering.

Jetstream2 Dashboard Deploy · NAIP Harvest M2M · HLS VI Pipeline

QGIS with a Stacked Terrain Builder run loaded as one styled group of layers

Make it easy to hand over

Work should outlast my involvement: documentation sites for the BioSCape pipelines, a user guide for the Jetstream2 deployer, map styles embedded in the files they style, an ArcGIS Pro export for Stacked Terrain, and credit for the people whose work mine builds on.

VI Phenology docs · Stacked Terrain Builder · Jetstream2 user guide