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SM-Tools, Copernicus, FOSS and the reasons of inevitable choices and drifts

February 25, 2026

Here at work, we develop a series of tools for geospatial processing with multiple goals, expected maintenance durations, different scopes, generalization needs, and motivations. Note that about 10 years ago, here in Europe, a completely new approach to upstream and downstream services for Earth Observation began: ESA changed its data licenses, and distribution and access modalities entered the Big Data era.

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A call to minimalistic programming

September 10, 2025

Minimalism in development is a forgotten virtue of our time that should gain more attention. A straightforward summary of some minimalism principles is available here. Briefly, the principles of minimalism in Software Engineering can be summarized as follows, based on the manifesto for minimalism.

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