Matthew Hanson

I work on remote sensing and open-source geospatial software at LGND, building the infrastructure that makes satellite imagery findable — lately by way of embeddings rather than metadata.

I’ve spent most of the last decade on STAC, the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog specification, and serve on its Project Steering Committee. Based in Dover, New Hampshire.

Upcoming

Into the STACLands 6–9 Oct · Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum · Snowbird, UT A choose-your-path tour of STAC. The room votes; the talk goes there.
From Catalog to Content 6–9 Oct · Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum · Snowbird, UT
Into the STACLands 2–4 Nov · FOSS4G North America · Sacramento
Open Geo Embeddings 2–4 Nov · FOSS4G North America · Sacramento
Visualizing Aggregations in STAC 2–4 Nov · FOSS4G North America · Sacramento

Recently

State of STACToday 3 Sep 2026 · FOSS4G 2026 · Hiroshima
Beyond Metadata Search 2 Sep 2026 · FOSS4G 2026 · Hiroshima
The Link between STAC and Open Science 26 Aug 2026 · JAXA Sprint · Tsukuba
STAC Standards & Roles 25 Aug 2026 · JAXA Sprint · Tsukuba

Complete record — 45 talks since 2018 →

Open source

STAC SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog · specification & steering committee
pystac-client Python client for searching STAC APIs
stac-server Node STAC API · AWS serverless · OpenSearch
STAPI Satellite Tasking API specification