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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

Analyzing and visualizing geospatial data using RStudio

Geospatial data is crucial in various domains, such as environmental analysis, urban planning, and location-based services. In this section, we will explore the process of importing and exporting geospatial data using R on AWS. We can efficiently handle large-scale geospatial datasets and perform advanced spatial analysis by leveraging the power of R and AWS storage and analytics services. We will cover the steps involved in importing different geospatial data formats, manipulating the data, and exporting the results back to various file formats.

For this example, let’s continue to use the RStudio that was installed on EC2 from the Setting up R and RStudio on EC2 section of this chapter. We will be importing a sample shapefile from NYC OpenData1 and visualizing it:

Install.packages( "tidyverse","sf")
library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
# Specify URL where NYC OpenData shape file is stored
url <-...