2026-07-01 –, A13
The growing availability of data from drones, Earth observation, and agricultural machinery (i.e., telemetry), combined with the advent of cloud infrastructure, has significantly accelerated innovation in how farmers and agricultural systems are supported. These advances have democratized access to data and capabilities, enabling precision farming solutions at an unprecedented scale.
This has become one of the main use cases for GeoServer deployments in recent years. At GeoSolutions, we have collaborated with a wide range of clients—from NGOs to large private companies, from startups to research institutions, helping them to extract value from data through GeoServer and other open-source geospatial technologies deployed at scale in cloud environments.
This presentation summarizes 10 years of experience in ingesting, managing, and disseminating data at scale for the precision farming industry. Key topics include:
- Optimization and organization of raster data
- Optimization and organization of vector data
- Data modeling for performance and scalability in GeoServer and PostGIS
- Deployment guidelines for scaling and performance of GeoServer
- On-the-fly styling for NDVI and other visualizations
By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to design and plan GeoServer deployments to efficiently serve precision farming data at scale.
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Open source enthusiast with strong experience in Java development and GIS. Personal interest range from high performance software, managing large data volumes, software testing and quality, spatial data analysis algorithms, map rendering.
Full time open source developer on GeoServer and GeoTools, regular presenter at FOSS4G.
Received the Sol Katz's OSGeo award in 2017.
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Simone Giannecchini is 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.