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GeoServer used in fun and interesting ways

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 Amie 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.

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This presentation is brought to you by

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.

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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

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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!

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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!

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Succeeding with GeoServer

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Code-DE - Copernicus Data and Exploitation Platform – Deutschland

Near real-time ingestion of Sentinel 1, 2 and 3 products with global coverage - nM data retention!
GeoServer Cluster with Open Source for EO extension
WMS service with time dimension + WCS + direct download

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DLR (German Space Agency) GeoWebServices

Sentinel 5, AVHRR, MetOp GOME, TerrasarX, RapidEye, other global maps
GeoServer Cluster
WMS service with time dimension + WCS + direct download

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EUMETSAT Eumetview

Near real-time dissemination of Sentinel 3 and Meteosat products with global coverage - 10 days data retention
GeoServer Cluster
WMS service with time dimension

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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..

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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.

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Maritime Control and Security

GeoServer with CMAP SDK for Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC) Serving
Near real-time ship position dissemination
Ship correlation
Azure databricks store + Kafka + Spark

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Product Integrations

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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

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GeoNode

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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

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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

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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”).

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GeoServer Integrations

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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

WMTS

Web Clients

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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

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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.

GeoServer

Keycloak

Clients

ADFS

OAuth2

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“Custom” Integrations

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Integrations - custom security support

GeoServer

Custom A&A

Enterprise authentication

Enterprise authorization

GIS data

user

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Custom mosaic plugin

Worldwide coverage, optimize data access at the strip level, custom filtering and security inside the mosaic itself

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Microservice + custom data sources

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Large data integration

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Cloud Integrations

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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

KAFKA

HDFS

Accumulo

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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

KAFKA

HDFS

Accumulo

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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”

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Long story short….

Vanilla GeoServer is just the beginning
You can write you own story

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And so… �what is your story?

�Tell us!

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Estonian�Sign Language

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.