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Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By : Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth
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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 open data

Previously in this book, you have learned about several different ways geospatial data can be stored, accessed, and analyzed. Most organizations perform analysis of their proprietary GIS datasets and keep the results of those analyses proprietary. The open data concept extends to all use cases and is encouraged to be used in conjunction with internal organizational data to maximize the value of the result. Leveraging the publicly available Earth observation datasets is not only simple with Open Data on AWS but it also performs better because everything is in the cloud. You can layer your own proprietary data on top of the open geospatial data and perform analysis directly in the cloud where both of the data sources live. This saves processing time, supports unpredictable workloads, and minimizes cost using the AWS consumption-based pricing on all cloud resources.

Using your AWS account

If you are new to using AWS to access and analyze geospatial data, you...