Field Notes from a Technical Founder

Field Notes from a Technical Founder

Feature Engineering Techniques: Environmental Machine Learning Guide

Tame messy weather and geospatial data with smart features that actually boost your model’s brainpower.

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Thomas Rell
Jul 13, 2025
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Environmental machine learning projects run into all kinds of unique problems, especially when wrestling with messy datasets—think weather patterns, geographic info, and time-series data. Feature engineering takes that raw environmental data and turns it into something machine learning models can actually use to make sol…

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