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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to the Geospatial Data Ecosystem
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Part 2: Geospatial Data Lakes using Modern Data Architecture
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Part 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Geospatial Data in AWS
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Part 4: Accessing Open Source and Commercial Platforms and Services

Open Data on AWS benefits

Hopefully, this chapter has provided you with some tangible examples of how Open Data on AWS can enrich your GIS ecosphere. Store once, use many is a pattern that works well in the cloud and results in dramatic reductions in cost and wait times for large geoprocessing workflows.

Using Amazon Workspaces, you can launch a virtual desktop in the same AWS Region as your data for a low-latency geospatial workstation. The chatty network nature of many popular GIS desktop tools is latency-sensitive and performs best when the software is close to the data. Less time watching screen refreshes means more time drawing insights out of your geospatial data.

You can run those massive compute transformations during small windows, knowing that the scale and elasticity of AWS will ensure your process completes. Replications to other Regions can be added where global latency constraints arise. The scale and functionality of the AWS global infrastructure grows as does...