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State of STAPI: A community tasking standard

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Explore STAPI, a specification for a Sensor Tasking API. We’ll highlight recent developments, showcase the open-source projects being developed in the ecosystem, and share the community’s vision of increased interoperability driving the next generation of geospatial workflows.

State of STAPI: A community tasking standard

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Community Standards and Satellite Tasking

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Community standards are specifications that are created through informal organization and are then widely adopted by a larger group. The STAC specification and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs are examples of community specifications that have become de facto standards for geospatial interoperability. This talk will examine how the process of developing community standards differs from traditional standards development and how to drive adoption. Numerous examples of successful community standards will be presented.

In addition, we will provide a case study of a current effort - that of STAPI - a specification for satellite tasking, or more specifically, an API for how users can order data from the future from satellite platforms. We have been spearheading an effort to develop such a specification and after two sprints we presented at the last FOSS4G in Kosovo. This prompted a third sprint in Europe, bringing together an even larger community. Working with government groups, commercial satellite operators, and data integrators, these sprints have worked toward developing a specification as well as implementations for several commercial providers, as well as ordering APIs for public datasets.