TorchGeo 0.8.0 Release

TorchGeo 0.8 includes 28 new pre-trained model weights and a number of improvements required for better time series support, including a complete rewrite of all GeoDataset and GeoSampler internals, encompassing 8 months of hard work by 23 contributors from around the world.

You may have noticed that https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo is now https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo. This is not an accident!

TorchGeo now belongs to YOU, please join our monthly Technical Steering Committee meetings!

TorchGeo was initially created as an intern project at Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab back in 2021. Once we made it open source, we were blown away by how quickly it was adopted by the AI4EO community! Since then, over 100 people from around the world have contributed to making TorchGeo what it is today.

Despite being open source, we have received feedback from many current and potential contributors that they have found it difficult to contribute to TorchGeo due to its ownership by Microsoft. While Microsoft has been an excellent incubator for TorchGeo over the past four years, we believe TorchGeo has outgrown its incubation phase.

Over the past year, we have been working diligently with Microsoft to come up with a solution. As of this release, we are excited to announce the formation of the TorchGeo Organization, a governing body designed to ensure the independence and longevity of the TorchGeo Project. The TorchGeo Organization is led by a Technical Steering Committee (TSC), initially composed of the current maintainers of the TorchGeo Project:

TorchGeo now lives at https://github.com/torchgeo, and Microsoft has graciously volunteered to give away the copyright to YOU, the TorchGeo Contributors. We would like all TorchGeo users and developers to take ownership of the project, and thus invite each and every one of you to join our TSC meetings. Please join the #technical-steering-committee channel in the TorchGeo Slack for more information on our monthly meeting schedule.

Other than this new open and independent governance, not much will change with the TorchGeo Project. TorchGeo will always remain open source under an MIT license and be free for all users and developers. We hope this change will open up opportunities for more collaboration, more awesome libraries built on top of TorchGeo, and more confidence in the long-term future of the project!

Find the full release notes at https://github.com/torchgeo/torchgeo/releases/tag/v0.8.0

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