Welcome!
I'm a Geospatial Data Analyst at Zillow who enjoys building modern geospatial systems that combine AI, automation, remote sensing, cloud-native analytics, and environmental intelligence to solve real-world problems.
My interests sit at the intersection of:
- 🌍 Geospatial Data Engineering
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence & Workflow Automation
- 🛰️ Remote Sensing & Earth Observation
- ☁️ Cloud-Native GIS
- 📊 Spatial Analytics
- 🌲 Environmental Intelligence
Rather than thinking of these as repositories, I think of them as ongoing areas of exploration.
Building real-time monitoring dashboards and decision-support tools for natural hazards.
Current projects include:
- 🌋 PELE – Kīlauea eruption monitoring
- 🌍 AFTERSHOCK – Real-time U.S. seismic monitor from USGS feeds
- 🌧️ lahar-watch – Mt. Rainier lahar sensor dashboard
- 🏔️ rainier-snowpack – Mt. Rainier snowpack from SNOTEL and MODIS
- 💧 sierra-streamflow – Sierra Nevada streamflow vs. the 20-year record
- 🔥 peavine-watch – What the Hawk Fire did to Peavine Mountain, from satellite imagery
- 🔥 Wildfire Response Gaps – How far West Coast fires burn from the nearest fire station
- 🌪️ Sierra Alert Bot · NWS Alert Bot – Automated hazard alerts for the Sierra and the Pacific Northwest
Applying AI, satellite imagery, LiDAR, and computer vision to geospatial problems.
Projects include:
- 🔤 GeoAI Nevada Hillside Letters – Detecting hillside letters in NAIP imagery
- 🪵 Sentinel Stockpile – The Pacific Northwest lumber economy, seen from space
- 🏛️ Project Kiva – Reading Chaco Canyon's ground with LiDAR
- 🌲 lidar-explore – Finding trees in a hundred million LiDAR points
- 🌊 PaleoWave · 🦣 IceWave – Random Forest fossil-locality prediction
- 🦎 ANOLE-WATCH – Island evolution of Guadeloupe's anole lizards · read the story
- 🌳 CYPRESS-DOME-WATCH – Finding Florida's cypress domes in LiDAR canopy height · project page (🌱 just started)
- 🌫️ FOG-WATCH – Where the fog lives: Namib, Atacama and California fog climatology · project page
- 🦌 MIGRATION-WATCH – Following the green wave with Western ungulate corridors (🌱 just started)
- 🐝 BEE-NAV – Honeybee-inspired drone navigation experiments (🌱 just started)
Designing repeatable workflows that reduce manual effort and improve spatial analysis.
Current areas include:
- Databricks
- Apache Sedona
- Spatial SQL
- GitHub Actions
- Workflow Automation
- AI-assisted Development
Exploring the intersection of climate, hydrology, ecology, weather, and geospatial analytics.
Projects include:
- 🔵 secchi – A modern Secchi disk for Lake Tahoe: 11 million observations from an undocumented sensor network
- 🏔️ ALPINE-WATCH – Water-quality watch on 13 high-elevation lakes in the Sierra and Cascades
- 🌨️ CASCADIA-WX – FORTRAN mountain-weather analysis from Pacific Northwest SNOTEL stations
- 🌪️ Weather Station · Weather Intelligence – Automated weather dashboards and twice-daily reports
- 📟 sierra-flow-cobol – 850 lines of COBOL reading live USGS discharge
- 🏞️ streamchaser – Reading the Tuolumne River from Groveland
- 🐾 DIPODOMYS – A data portrait of Death Valley's kangaroo rats
- ☀️ SOLSTICE – Chaco Canyon archaeoastronomy, updated twice daily
- 🧗 Ridgeline – Search-and-rescue calls at Phoenix's wildland-urban interface
- 🍺 HopLore – An open hop-cultivar database that shows every source's number
ArcGIS Pro • QGIS • Google Earth Engine • GDAL • Remote Sensing
Databricks • Apache Spark • Apache Sedona • SQL • PostgreSQL • Python • R
Generative AI • Workflow Automation • GitHub Actions • Cloud-Native GIS
📖 Cartographic Perspectives (NACIS)
Published reviewer exploring the history of cartography, exploration, and the enduring role maps continue to play in shaping knowledge, culture, and modern geospatial thinking.
🌎 Website
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooks-groves-gisp-137219139
When I'm not building geospatial systems you'll usually find me:
- 🥾 Hiking the Cascades
- 🏔️ Exploring the Sierra Nevada
- 📷 Landscape photography
- 🛰️ Learning new geospatial technologies
- 📚 Reading cartography and exploration history
"Turning spatial data into understanding."