GeoSolutions Keynote at WebMGS 2015

Ing. Simone Giannecchini Ing. Andrea Aime

Ing. Mauro Bartolomeoli

Trends and directions in web mapping, geoprocessing and services from the perspective of an SME obsessed with

Open Source

Outline

WebMGS 01/07/2015 Cagliari

About us

Our World and its Challenges

Trends

Conclusions

Who we are Founded in late 2006

Expertise

• Image Processing, GeoSpatial Data Fusion

• Java, Java Enterprise, C++, Python

• JPEG2000, JPIP, Advanced visualization

• Web Based Mashups, Mobile Solutions

Supporting/Developing FOSS4G projects MapStore, GeoServer, GeoNetwork

CKAN, GeoNode, GeoTools , ImageIO-Ext, JAI-Ext

Clients UN FAO (CIOK, FIGIS, NRL, FORESTRY, ESTG), UN WFP, World Bank, DLR, EUMETSAT, JRC, ARPAT,

NATO CMRE

ITT-VIS, E-GEOS, GEOSMART, BOAB, SINERGIS, City of Prato, City of Florence, County of Florence, CSI-Piemonte, NWGEO, IGEA, AMBRERO, LIBEROLOGICO, Astrium UK, Neftex, MDA, etc…

http://www.geo-solutions.it


http://www.geo-solutions.it/



Our Offer FOSS4G Software is core for us

Not simply use but develop and support

Enterprise Support Services Bug Fixing

Support

Customizations & New Features

5 packages different types of needs

Professional Training

End-To-End Projects (Integration) Tell me what you need, I’ll put it together for you

We take our core products and Bend them, twist them, embed them

Hammer them to make clients happy


Our Products

GeoWebCache GeoServer

GeoBatch

GeoNetwork

MapStore

Ingest & Preprocess

Metadata Maps & Data Tiles & KML

Mashups, Mobile

Data & Styles WMS

Metadata


Industries we cover

Constructions & Engineering

Real Estate Smart

Mobility Smart Cities

Earth Observation

Meteorology &

Oceanography Defence

Natural Resources

Emergency Response

OpenData PA & Government

Utilities

Oil&Gas Cultural Heritage

Telecom Education


Before we start


Software House (SME)

Core technologies are Open Source

Based in Italy but Clients Worldwide

Clients are both PAs as well as private companies (both large as well as small)

We cover many sectors

We don’t do science but software engineering

We work for/with scientists

Our perspective can be limited but still valuable

Is there room for innovation?


Innovation


“Innovation can be viewed as the application of new or better solutions that meet new requirements, inarticulated needs, or existing market needs” [wikipedia]

Innovation is driven by*

Needs not (completely) satisfied

Availability good amount of money (one way or the other)

Availability of bright minds

*Simone Giannecchini, 2013

Challenging World


Challenging World


Challenging World


Thriving Market


Mature, Niche but thriving market

“Expected to grow worldwide to $ 10.6 Billion

by 2015, CAGR over 10% in 2012/16”

More Facts

PlanetLabs raised total 163M $

SkyBox acquired by Goole for 500M $

MapBox raised total 63M $ while ESRI keeps

growing at 5% rate

Budgets are shrinking but there is room for

disruptive innovation

1st law of geography: "Everything is related to

everything else, but near things are more related than

distant things.” (Waldo Tobler)

Trends, Challenges and Buzzwords


Hot Topics and Buzzwords BigData

OpenData LinkedData

Cloud Scalability, On Demand Processing, e-Collaboration, VRE

Crowdsourcing (VGI) OpenStreetMap, OpenTraffic, users-as-

sensors

IoT M2M, Sensor Web, Connected Cars

Interoperability data discovery, data fusion

3D lidar, BIM

Nanosatellites, Drones

Mobile AR, 3D, Personal LBS

Open Source

Smart Cities

Indoor LBS

and many more (neogeography, data journalism, smartgrid, etc…)


OpenData "Data is truly open if it is technically open (available

in a machine-readable standard format, which means

it can be retrieved and meaningfully processed by a

computer application) and legally open (explicitly

licensed in a way that permits commercial and non-

commercial use and re-use without

restrictions)" [World Bank Group].

We have never had so much data available OpenStreetMap, Landsat 8, Sentinel, USGS, NOAA,

you-name-it

And more OpenData is coming!

2nd ed. OpenData Barometer “..under 8 percent of countries

surveyed by the World Wide Web Foundation make available

datasets on useful information…”


http://data.worldbank.org/about/open-government-data-toolkit/knowledge-repository

http://data.worldbank.org/about/open-government-data-toolkit/knowledge-repository

http://barometer.opendataresearch.org/



OpenData Challenges ahead of us

(Re)use

Quality

Licensing

Update

Archiving (storage)

Preservation

Accessibility (API, Formats,…)

Linking

Processing

Step 1 (data release) is there

Step 2 (data reuse) is there?


CrowdSourcing - VGI


“The widespread engagement of large

numbers of private citizens, often with little

in the way of formal qualifications in the

creation of geographic information”

Participation is exploding

CrowdSourcing - VGI


Users as sensors (mobile agents)

Huge opportunity for Industry and Research Advanced Situational Awareness

Near Real-time data

Lowering Price of data acquisition

Data quality assurance

Privacy Concerns

Data mining

Usability

Citizen Science 2,0

Quality and Privacy needs

attention

IoT


A (scary) tale

IoT


IoT


IoT


IoT


IoT


Synergies and Overlaps

Cloud

BigData

OpenData

Mobile (crowdsensing)

3D

Interoperability

Earth Observation

Tremendous innovation potential

Tremendous projected economic impact

Game of Drones Space and Sky have never been so busy Drones, UAVs

PlanetLabs Flock 1

28 satellites (Doves) 4 Kg each plans for hundreds

capture high-resolution (3-5m) whole-Earth

images nearly continuously

SkyBox Imaging

SkySat nanosatellites

capture HD video clips

ESA Sentinel

Landsat 8


Game of Drones Benefits

Unprecendented variety of sources

Unprecendented amount of data available

Unprecendented refresh time

Challenges

Archiving

Processing

Fusion & Dissemination

Synergies

OpenData ESA with Sentinel 2 data

Cloud Landsat 8 on Amazon AWS

Open Source see what NGA is doing,

IoT WebMGS 01/07/2015 Cagliari

Game of Drones «The earth observation business is not all

about resolution and accuracy but about

how soon you can provide the images and

what intelligence you can extract from the

data» Bernhard Brenner Head of GeoInt Airbus


It’s a Mobile World


7.45 Bn mobile device VS 7.2 Bn human

beings

Iphone6 CPU 625x more powerful than 1995

Intel Pentium: “Everyone has a supercomputer in its

pocket”

4Bn phones every 2 y VS 1.6BN PCs

Half of the time spent online in US today is

from apps Mobile is ending Microsoft dominance

Mobile First is a must-have

Users are sensors

Huge opportunity for industry and research

Also threat to privacy

It’s a Mobile World


Geospatial services need to consider: “the

other end of the spectrum has customers

who do not use laptops and computers.

They use cell phones and tablets.” Ola Rollen, President and CEO, Hexagon AB

http://issuu.com/geospatialworld/docs/geospatial-world-annual-

edition-january-2013

http://issuu.com/geospatialworld/docs/geospatial-world-annual-edition-january-2013











Cloud The Cloud is everywhere commodity rather than

tech trend

We have never had so much Processing power

Storage Space

Bandwidth

Are we exploiting all this? No(t entirely)

Challenges

Requires Mental Shift

Horizontal Scaling is hard

Porting legacy applications is hard

Costs


Cloud Success Stories

MapBox

CartoDb

ArcGIS Online

OpenStreetMap

Trimble Data Marketplace

Like for millennials, growing at the right

time helps a lot with new technologies!

Open Source Tools are leading the run

Cloud Compute: Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hazelcast

Cloud Automation: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc..

Cloud Provision: OpenStack, XEN, Opennebula


3D 3D has been around for a while

Technology was there

Real needs where kind of missing

Things are changing

BIM CityGML, Smart Cities, Urban Planning

Connected Constructions

Smart Utilities & Infrastructure

LiDAR

Synergies with AR and Mobile

Sensor Web

Concrete use cases are driving innovation

But widespread adoption is not there yet…


BigData How do we make sense of all that we said

so far?

BigData 4Vs Volume petabytes datasets are not uncommon

Variety mixing heterogeneous data sources

Velocity data is ingested and process in near real-time

Veracity should we trust the content of tweets?

(Value extract valuable information from the mass amount)

How can turn huge data into actionable

information?

The key point is Value

Applications are endless


http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/infographic/four-vs-big-data

BigData The tools are there and quite mature we just

need to exploit them properly

Hadoop, Spark

R, PIG, Hive

MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra

Nevertheless Mass Exploitation of BigData

technologies is still somewhat lacking due

to complexity of tools

Success Stories are there….

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

Google


Open Source has won (?)


Interoperability …capability to communicate, execute programs or transfer

data among different functional units in a manner which

requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique

characteristics of those units

…seamless exchange of information and procedures

between different organizations employing public, wellknown

standard protocols and interfaces.

It’s about the protocols not the formats!

De Facto standards VS Mandated

Standards GeoJSON vs GML

Key Bodies: OGC, ISO, W3C, OASIS, etc…

Open Source is leading the interoperability

race


Interoperability The world is split in 2

EU is fond for standards INSPIRE

US is fond for «Getting things done!» MapBox, ESRI

while REST is new, OGC is old

and GIS is dead!

there is Strong Interest from many

communities

Military, Aviation, MetOc, Constructions , Utilities

Are we reintroducing information SILOS

and vendor lockin?

with a pinch of opennes


Interoperability Being able to push data in (cloud) service X

using N other cloud services with data in M

formats is not interoperability!

Did I say It’s about the protocols not the

formats?

Sometimes we have to step back to move

forward

I wish it was always that simple


Take Aways


We are living 4th Maps Revolution* 1. John Snow 1854

2. ESRI 1980

3. Google Maps/Earth 2000

4. Data Visualization and Real Time 2015

We are going to have geo data as never

before

in a Timely Fashion

at High Resolution

from a huge variety of sources

mostly free and open

* Quote from Javier de la Torre –CartoDB Founder and CEO

Take Aways


The Cloud is ready for being abused Archiving and Storage

Computing Resources

Bandwidth Resources

Mobile has won the battle

People consume and generate content on the spot,

on the go

The need for speed and performance is tremendous

Information Silos are coming back, in a

rather insidious way

Facebook, Linkedin, Google, everyone is trying to

trap us into enormous silos

and sometimes we are even paying for it!

Take Aways


The challenge is now about: 1. How quickly we can deliver added value info

Timeliness, Freshness and Performance

2. How much sense we can make of the data we

have Fusion, Mining, Correlation

3. Our ability to convey the right amount of

information in the right way Dissemination,

Subscription Platforms, Mobile First Apps, Data

Visualization

4. Our ability to balance privacy concerns with

need for more data

All this applies to both industry and

research

at least IMHO

The End

Thanks for not sleeping (loud)! [email protected]


GeoServer GeoSpatial enterprise gateway

Java Enterprise

Management and Dissemination of raster and vector data

Standards compliant OGC WCS 1.0, 1.1.1 (RI), 2.0.1

OGC WFS 1.0, 1.1 (RI), 2.0

OGC WMS 1.1.1, 1.3

OGC WPS 1.0.0

A ton of Extension available

Google Earth/Maps support KML, GeoSearch, etc.


GeoWebCache Tile Oriented Geospatial Cache

Java Enterprise

Maps Acceleration ( 10x to 100x )

Standards compliant

OGC WMS 1.1.1, WMTS 1.0

TMS

WMS-C

Google Earth/Maps support

Stand-Alone or Integrated in GeoServer


MapStore Create, Manage, Share Stunning Maps easily

Mashing-up various sources of data

Inject markers and tracks with custom pop-up

Embed in existing sites and portal

Use it as a complete geoportal solution

Android Mobile Client


Indoor LBS Indoor LBS


GeoNetwork (GeoSpatial) Catalog

Registry of Metadata

Repository

Enterprise Search Appliance

GeoPortal

SDI entry point

Information Broker

Metadata Editor

Standards Based

Implemented with Java Enterprise technologies


SmartCities Smart Cities



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GeoSolutions Keynote at WebMGS 2015