Hamed
Alemohammad

Clark CGA Director

Dear Clark CGA Community,


I am pleased to share highlights of the momentum building across the Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics. Over the past few months, our team has continued to engage deeply with the broader Earth and data science communities, most notably through our presence at the AGU Fall Meeting. AGU provided a forum to exchange ideas, showcase Clark CGA’s work, and connect with colleagues across academia, government, and industry who are shaping the future of geospatial research.


These conversations reinforced the rapid evolution of geospatial AI as a field—from foundation models and learned representations, such as embeddings, to emerging approaches that integrate reasoning, decision-making, and interaction with complex spatial data. At Clark CGA, we see this as an exciting moment of convergence. In the months ahead, we will be exploring how agentic AI systems can be designed for geospatial contexts, with the goal of enabling more adaptive, interpretable, and impactful analytic workflows.


Looking ahead, our team will be on the road this spring, participating in multiple conferences and community events including the 2nd ESA-NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Model for Earth Observation (EO). I invite you to explore the stories in this newsletter and to stay engaged with Clark CGA as we continue to expand our research, collaborations, and impact.




- Hamed Alemohammad

Mapping the Blue Economy: A decade of Monitoring Aquaculture with the Moore Foundation

"Since 2014, the Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) has partnered with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to tackle a critical question in environmental conservation regarding how to balance growing food demands with the preservation of natural ecosystems. Established by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the foundation uses [...]"

Shaping the Future of Earth Science: CGA Takes on AGU 2025

"This past December, the Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) joined the global scientific community in New Orleans for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. As the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, the conference brings together over 25,000 attendees from more than 100 countries to [...]"

Beyond the Code: How AI Agents are Reshaping the Jupyter Ecosystem

"Yao-Ting Yao, a Software Engineer at the Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) recently represented the Center at JupyterCon 2025. This major conference served as a hub for the Jupyter ecosystem and brought together users and developers to discuss [...]"

Connecting with the Global QGIS Community: CGA in Sweden

"The Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) operates on the philosophy of open science, prioritizing the creation of tools and data that are accessible to the wider public. This commitment to sharing resources aligns closely with the global community surrounding QGIS, the world’s [...]"

Spice World Conference 2025 Learning from the IT Community: CGA at SpiceWorld 2025

"In an era where Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the digital landscape, maintaining the technology behind a research center requires constant adaptation. Staying ahead of these trends is critical for ensuring that the Center for Geospatial Analytics (CGA) remains a [...]"

Hamed Alemohammad

Clark CGA Director

Hamed Alemohammad will attend the 2026 IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium from April 22-24, 2026 in Marrakesh, Morocco and deliver a tutorial on Earth Observation Foundation Models for Real-World Mapping.


Clark CGA Team will attend the 2nd ESA-NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Model for Earth Observation (EO) from May 19-22, 2026 in Huntsville, AL, USA. 


Open Position: Assistant Director at Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics

Clark CGA is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead the programmatic and operational growth of the Center. This is an excellent opportunity for a strategic, operationally minded professional who enjoys building programs, improving systems, and supporting mission-driven research and education.

The 4th Machine Learning for Remote Sensing workshop at ICLR conference with a special themes on "ML4RS: publication to practice" invites submissions tackling problems including (but not limited to): Foundation models, Active learning & annotating efficiency, Imperfect evaluation data, Interpretability & generalization, Benchmarking & impact, Accessibility & efficiency, Local vs. global models, and Precomputed embeddings.


Call for Papers: Collection on Advancing GeoAI: From Machine Learning to Foundation Models for Explainable and Generative Geospatial Intelligence

International Journal of Digital Earth has an open call for submissions to a special collection on Advancing GeoAI: From Machine Learning to Foundation Models for Explainable and Generative Geospatial Intelligence. The Collection invites research articles and review papers that highlight conceptual advances, novel methodologies, and transformative applications of GeoAI in the Digital Earth context.

Submission deadline: August 31, 2026.


Call for Papers: Special Issue on Geospatial Foundation Models for Advancing Remote Sensing of Environment

This proposed special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment, “Geospatial Foundation Models for Advancing Remote Sensing of Environment”, will highlight frontier developments in methods, datasets, and applications that leverage foundation models to interpret, classify, and detect Earth’s changing environment at various spatial and temporal scales.

Submission deadline: 30 June 2026.