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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

Types of servers and deployment options

When it comes to choosing a geospatial server to serve geospatial data to clients, you have many offerings in the open source world, with QGIS Server, GeoServer, and MapServer all being popular choices. On the commercial side, the overwhelming majority will choose Esri’s ArcGIS server. All of these options are supported on AWS and in various forms, containers, Kubernetes, and traditional EC2 instances. Deployment options also vary between implementations. ArcGIS has a few convenient methods of deployment, such as AWS CloudFormation templates, which can be modularly combined to customize the deployment. There is also the ArcGIS Cloud Builder tool available under downloads at myesri.com: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/cloud/amazon/arcgis-enterprise-cloud-builder-for-aws.htm. This is by far the easiest way to deploy as it only requires an access key, secret key, SSL certificate, and license file. This tool has the option to...