GeoServer used in fun and interesting ways - FOSS4GNA 2023

GeoServer is the start of so many great open source success stories.

This talk introduces the core GeoServer application and explores the ecosystem that has developed around this beloved OSGeo application. Our presentation draws on the GeoServer ecosystem for use-cases and examples of how the application has been used successfully by a wide range of organizations.

Each use-case highlights a capability of GeoServer providing an overview of the technology drawn from practical examples.

- Andrea iAme is on hand to share success stories highlighting GeoServer use in managing vulnerable ecosystems, agriculture information management, and marine data management.
- Jody Garnett will look at how GeoServer technology powers cloud services
- Gabriel will look at am amazing remixes for Cloud Native GeoServer
- GeoServer technology powering the OSGeo community, including GeoNode, geOrchestra
- A showcase of examples collected from our user list

Attend this talk to learn what GeoServer is good for out-of-the-box, and for inspiration on what is possible using GeoServer and the FOSS4G community.

Transcript

1. GeoServer used in fun and interesting ways
2. Jody Garnett jody.garnett@geocat.net @jodygarnett GeoCat Government Geographic Data publishing Andrea Aime Technical Lead andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it @geowolf GeoSolutions Innovative, robust, cost-effective solutions leveraging best-of-breed Open Source products. This presentation is brought to you by
3. GeoServer at a Glance Java Web Application to share and edit geospatial data. Publish data from any major spatial data source using open standards. Core Protocols WMS – maps WFS – vector WFS-T – editing WCS – coverage WMTS – tiles TMS – tiles WMS-C – tiles Extension/community protocols WPS – process CSW – search OGC API - json + rest standards OGC STAC - spatio-temporal asset catalogue
4. Powered by GeoServer GeoServer is a real open source, and OSGeo, success story in its own right. • Open Source GPL License • Established project first released in 2001! • Diverse global development community • Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project since 2011 • … but that is not what this talk is about! GeoServer, as a component, powers a wide ecosystem of great solutions!
5. Before we start! The following GeoServer examples are here: • Provide confidence • Inspire with what is possible • Illustrate flexibility We want you to feel safe in your technology choice: - GeoServer can take on very challenging situations! - Most situations are not so challenging! Be amazed not terrified please!
6. Succeeding with GeoServer
7. Images and videos where available Attribute information helps to understand the origin of the sign. Data was collected by the deaf community and the images designed by deaf designer. Estonian Sign Language
8. DLR (German Space Agency) GeoWebServices • Sentinel, AVHRR, MetOp GOME, TerrasarX, RapidEye, other global maps • GeoServer Cluster • WMS service with time dimension + WCS + direct download + STAC
9. EUMETSAT Eumetview • Near real-time ingestion and dissemination of 120+ Eumetsat products • 2.5 years data retention and counting • GeoServer Cluster + PostgreSQL Cluster on K8s ( Private Cloud) • WMS service with time dimension + WCS + WFS + Asynch Download
10. Luxembourg Copernicus Collaborative Ground Segment • 56 million products • 43 PB data online • Landsat 1 + Landsat 2 • GeoServer + PG cluster • OpenSearch for EO • View & Download
11. Regione Liguria GeoPortal • GeoServer Cluster + Elastic cluster for metering and logging • Peak throughput 600+ req/s • WMS, WFS, WMTS • 1000+ layers to cover mobility, land parcels, orthophoto, environment, etc..
12. City of Genoa GeoPortal • GeoServer Cluster + Oracle Cluster (Yeah, I know….) • 1000+ datasets powering one of the most important EU port cities • Tightly integrated with various stakeholders (region, county, utilities)
13. BEV (Austrian ministry) - address register • GeoServer Cluster + Jenkins ingestion chain for orthos • 10TB of RGB-NIR orthos • WMS, WMTS with INSPIRE Compliance • Dump every 3 months of ⅓ of the map (flight campaign). Ingestion cycle went from 1M to 1W. Ingestion chain based on GDAL scripts.
14. European Maritime Security Agency • GeoServer with SDK for Electronic Nautical Chartts • Near real-time ship position ingestion, enrichment, dissemination and correlation • Azure databricks store + Kafka + Spark
15. Hurricane decision support • Hurricane real time information and forecast
16. Precision agriculture • Satellite imagery, index calculation, drone data, IOT data, you name it… • Terabytes of imagery, hundreds of millions of vector records
17. NOAA nowCOAST • Near Real Time Weather Data + alerts + hazards • Radar + satellites + Model • GeoServer Cluster + PostgreSQL
18. Product Integrations
19. Cloud Native GeoServer Gabriel (camptocamp) has a neat project - distribution of GeoServer components optimized for a cloud-first environment: • spring-boot • microservices • Replaced a 60 nodes cluster Now an official GeoServer repository: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver-cloud
20. GeoNode
21. GeoServer Enterprise (GeoCat) Commercial open-source distribution: • Long-term-support • Pre-configured WAR no need to install extensions Includes GeoCat Bridge publication from comfort of your Desktop GIS
22. GeoCat Live Spatial-Data-Infrastructure (SDI) in a box • Catalogue services: GeoNetwork • Mapping services: GeoServer • Spatial database: PostGIS Includes GeoCat Bridge publication from comfort of your Desktop GIS Software-as-a-Service provided by a company dedicated to sustainable open source
23. https://www.georchestra.org/ geOrchestra provides independant and interoperable modules to build your own custom spatial data infrastructure: • a data catalog based on GeoNetwork version 4.0.6, • a map and feature server: GeoServer version 2.18.3, • an advanced data access list manager: GeoFence, • a map tiles server: GeoWebCache version 1.16.2, • an advanced web map viewer with query, styling, editing functions, • a data extractor to extract, reproject and download datasets from OGC services, • a user, orgs & roles manager (“ldapadmin”), • a module to display data usage statistics (“analytics”).
24. GeoServer Integrations
25. Cascading WMS for reprojecting / caching Ian Turton has helped use GeoServer to “supplement” less capable servers and clients. • Added reprojection • Caching for performance GeoServer WMS WMS WMS WMTS Web Clients
26. Cascade WFS for Business Intelligence styling Jody Garnett helped use GeoServer to provide dynamic styling of Business Intelligence data cube content • Used SLD=<sld content> to draw visualization produced by BI system GeoServer WFS WMS BI Dashboard WFS
27. GeoServer Keycloak OAuth2 Single Sign On security integration Example is from GeoCat Live, which uses Keycloak via OAuth2 in order to authenticate against a range of single sign on options such as ADFS. Keycloak Clients ADFS OAuth2
28. “Custom” Integrations
29. Integrations - custom security support GeoServer Custom A&A Enterprise authentication Enterprise authorization GIS data user
30. Custom mosaic plugin Worldwide coverage, optimize data access at the strip level, custom filtering and security inside the mosaic itself
31. Microservice + custom data sources
32. Large data integration
33. Cloud Integrations
34. Store, index, query, and transform spatio-temporal data at scale in Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra, and Kafka. Distributed Spatio-temporal Database - Built on Hadoop and Accumulo - Scales to billions of features - Written in Scala - Apache License, v2.0 Informal: “Distributed PostGIS” Cloud Stack and Distributed Resources K A F K A HDFS Accumulo
35. Connect distributed computing and key-value stores with modern geospatial software to store, retrieve and analyze massive geospatial datasets Distributed Spatio-temporal Database - Spatial index for Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra, Dynamodb - Scales to billions of features - Written in Java - Apache License, v2.0 Cloud Stack and Distributed Resources K A F K A HDFS Accumulo
36. Cloud blob-store / COG integration • GeoWebCache Tiles can be stored in S3, Azure (supported) • COGs can be read from S3, Google Storage, Azure Storage (community) Image mosaic WMS WMTS Google Storage Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF “blobstore”
37. Long story short…. • Vanilla GeoServer is just the beginning • You can write you own story
38. And so… what is your story? Tell us!