08-25, 14:15–14:45 (Europe/Rome), Room 9
Although GRASS GIS has been used for big data processing for a while now, you may think that some esoteric knowledge is needed to take full advantage of its computational power. The purpose of this talk is to demonstrate simple ways to parallelize your computations in GRASS GIS, that are applicable whether you are working on your laptop or HPC. I will give an overview of the state of parallelization of individual tools, show benchmarks, and introduce you to other GRASS GIS parallelization tricks. I will use examples relevant to land change modeling and share our experience with simulating urban growth at 30m pixel across the contiguous United States (16 billion cells) using FUTURES simulation implemented in r.futures addon. This talk is for all levels of expertise, although basic Python or GRASS GIS knowledge will be advantageous.
GRASS GIS is a well established, all-in-one geospatial number cruncher with Python interface, command line, and GUI, with new major version 8.0 released in spring 2022.
FUTURES is an open source urban growth model specifically designed to capture the spatial structure of development. It can accommodate the input of a variety of datasets with different spatial extents and can be coupled to other models. FUTURES is implemented in r.futures GRASS GIS addon.
Anna is a geospatial research software engineer with PhD in Geospatial Analytics. She develops spatio-temporal models of urbanization and pest spread across landscape. As a member of the OSGeo Foundation and the GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee, Anna advocates the use of open source software in research and education.
Vaclav (Vashek) Petras is a research software engineer, open source developer, and open science advocate. He received his masters in Geoinformatics from the Czech Technical University and PhD in Geospatial Analytics from the North Carolina State University. Vaclav is a member of the GRASS GIS Development Team and Project Steering Committee.