Book Image

Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By : Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth
Book Image

Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By: Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth

Overview of this book

Managing geospatial data and building location-based applications in the cloud can be a daunting task. This comprehensive guide helps you overcome this challenge by presenting the concept of working with geospatial data in the cloud in an easy-to-understand way, along with teaching you how to design and build data lake architecture in AWS for geospatial data. You’ll begin by exploring the use of AWS databases like Redshift and Aurora PostgreSQL for storing and analyzing geospatial data. Next, you’ll leverage services such as DynamoDB and Athena, which offer powerful built-in geospatial functions for indexing and querying geospatial data. The book is filled with practical examples to illustrate the benefits of managing geospatial data in the cloud. As you advance, you’ll discover how to analyze and visualize data using Python and R, and utilize QuickSight to share derived insights. The concluding chapters explore the integration of commonly used platforms like Open Data on AWS, OpenStreetMap, and ArcGIS with AWS to enable you to optimize efficiency and provide a supportive community for continuous learning. By the end of this book, you’ll have the necessary tools and expertise to build and manage your own geospatial data lake on AWS, along with the knowledge needed to tackle geospatial data management challenges and make the most of AWS services.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to the Geospatial Data Ecosystem
4
Part 2: Geospatial Data Lakes using Modern Data Architecture
10
Part 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Geospatial Data in AWS
16
Part 4: Accessing Open Source and Commercial Platforms and Services

Deploying containers

Launch a t3a.medium EC2 instance with Amazon, Linux, and either SSH connectivity or a systems manager role for connectivity.

Use the following commands to install Docker:

sudo yum install docker -y
sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
newgrp docker

This command is used to enable the Docker service so that we can start it with the next command:

sudo systemctl enable docker.service

This command is used to start the Docker service:

sudo systemctl start docker.service

This command will search the public Docker repository for any containers named or labeled GDAL:

sudo docker search gdal

This results in the following output:

Figure 8.2: GDAL output

Figure 8.2: GDAL output

This command will pull down the GDAL container from the Docker public container registry so we can run it locally on our machine:

Sudo docker pull osgeo/gdal
Figure 8.3: Installing GDAL

Figure 8.3: Installing GDAL

This command will show the Docker container images...