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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

Using Geospatial Data with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL has risen in popularity to become one of the most common geospatial platforms for storing structured relational data. Creating your own geodatabase a decade ago was reserved for the most experienced administrators. Today, we can instantly spin up a globally replicated database in the cloud using infrastructure as code (IaC).

This chapter will teach you how to create, populate, use, and visualize an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL geodatabase on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up the database
  • Connecting to the database
  • Geospatial data loading
  • Queries and transformations
  • Architectural considerations

Amazon Aurora is an AWS service that provides managed serverless databases on open source platforms. Aurora also provides unparalleled performance and global availability at one-tenth the cost of commercial databases.