08-23, 09:05–13:05 (Europe/Rome), 201
This workshop will give a short introduction to REST and cloud processing concepts, followed by an introduction to actinia and hands-on to explore the API. We will look at existing client implementations and finish with own exercises. This workshop is geared towards those with basic experience in geospatial analysis.
Actinia (https://actinia.mundialis.de/) is an open source REST API for scalable, distributed, high performance processing of geographical data that mainly uses GRASS GIS for computational tasks. Core functionality includes the processing of satellite imagery (both single scenes and time series), as well as the processing of raster and vector data, even from external sources. The existing big Earth observation open data pools (Landsat, Sentinel, etc.) are growing day by day along with a plethora of other sources. Actinia is designed to follow the paradigm of bringing algorithms to the data, saving users from locally downloading and processing huge amounts of data. Actinia is an OSGeo Community Project since 2019. It can be deployed with docker-swarm on a workstation, and also in OpenShift and kubernetes.
In this workshop we will give a short introduction to REST API concepts and some cloud processing background. This is followed by an introduction to actinia processing along with hands-on to explore the API. We will look at existing client implementations and finish with own exercises. This workshop is geared towards those with basic experience in geospatial analysis. And we are looking forward to enlarge the actinia community!
Markus Neteler, PhD, is a cofounder of mundialis after having spent 15 years as a researcher in Italy. His focus is on Earth Observation, GIS and cloud computing. Markus managed for two decades the GRASS GIS project, and he is a founding member of OSGeo and other organizations.
Carmen finished her studies in geography where she learned about spatial data and the matching software. She is a passionate geographer and loves traveling the world. After teaching remote sensing to other students and writing her bachelor thesis about a german spatial data exchange format, she started working for mundialis using and creating OSGeo software. One of these is actinia, to which Carmen actively contributes. She is an open source devotee and was very happy to take part in the FOSS4G 2016 organization team for Bonn. She is an OSGeo Charter Member since 2019.