Simone Giannecchini

Simone Giannecchini is the founder and managing director of GeoSolutions. He is a Charter Member of OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial foundation. He is also a member of the Steering committee for the GeoTools as well as the GeoServer Open Source projects.
Before founding GeoSolutions he has worked as Software Engineer at the NATO Undersea Research Center, a Military R&D facility based in La Spezia (Italy), on the implementation of a client-server infrastructure capable of storing, managing and disseminating geospatial data (vector, gridded, imagery) leveraging on WCS, WFS and WMS Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications.


Sessions

09-01
17:30
30min
Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: addressing real world requirements
Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini

This presentation demonstrates how GeoServer enables efficient management, discovery, and visualization of large Earth observation datasets. Through real-world examples, it covers indexing (STAC/OpenSearch), Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs, mosaicking and filtering, data extraction (WCS/WPS), time-based animations, and band algebra, highlighting GeoServer’s latest capabilities in satellite imagery workflows.

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09-03
14:30
30min
Supporting precision farming with GeoServer: past experiences and way forward
Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini

This presentation highlights how GeoSolutions leverages cloud infrastructure and geospatial technologies to enable precision farming at scale. Drawing on 10 years of experience, it covers data ingestion, optimization, modeling, and GeoServer deployment strategies, along with real-time visualization techniques for designing scalable, high-performance agricultural data solutions.

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