Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus

Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus is an Agronomist and geoinformatics specialist with a PhD in Geography and Sustainable Development from Ben-Gurion University. He has extensive experience in spatial data infrastructures, having worked at the Joint Research Center (ISPRA) as an OGC web service developer, Plymouth Marine Laboratory on remote sensing applications, and ISRIC on major projects including SoilGrids and WOCAT. Jorge currently runs TerraOps - Innovations (https://terraops.org), providing Geo-as-a-Service solutions and REST API development for geospatial data using the OSGeo stack. His expertise spans Python programming, Kubernetes deployment, and spatial data analysis for agricultural and environmental applications.


Sessions

11-17
09:00
180min
Diving into pygeoapi Workshop
Tom Kralidis, krishna lodha, Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus

pygeoapi is an OGC Reference Implementation supporting numerous OGC API specifications. This workshop will cover publishing geospatial data to the Web using pygeoapi in support of the suite of OGC API standards.

Workshop - Intermediate Level
WF710
11-17
13:30
180min
Doing Geospatial with Python
Tom Kralidis, krishna lodha, Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus

This workshop will provide an introduction to performing common GIS/geospatial tasks using Python geospatial tools such as OWSLib, Shapely, Fiona/Rasterio, and common geospatial libraries like GDAL, PROJ, pycsw, as well as other tools from the geopython toolchain.

Workshop - Beginner Friendly
WF503
11-19
11:30
25min
Scaling GeoNetwork 4.4.x in Kubernetes: Production Deployment Strategies and Performance Analysis
Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus

Walk through of Helm charts and horizontal scaling approaches for GeoNetwork in Kubernetes, covering volume pitfalls like wro4j cache configurations, plus Locust benchmark techniques for user access testing

Cloud, APIs & Data Infrastructure
WG802
11-20
16:10
5min
Beyond Square Pixels: H3 Spatial Indexing for Global Raster Data
Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus

Workflow demonstration converting 20GB+ raster datasets like GEDTM30 global DEM to H3 hexagonal grids at resolution 12. Complete pipeline uses GDAL, DuckDB, and GeoParquet for QGIS visualization. Benefits include eliminated projection boundaries, consistent global coverage, and scalable OGC REST API with O(1) retrieval performance for modern cloud-native workflows

Lightning talk
WG403
11-21
09:30
25min
Benchmarking OGC Services: No More Surprises When 20 Students Try to Access Your WMS
Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus

Most OGC services are deployed with only functional testing, leading to failures under real user loads. Our open-source Locust framework generates realistic geospatial requests with random bounding boxes and dynamic coordinates for proper load testing

Cloud, APIs & Data Infrastructure
WG404