Sharing thoughts about FOSS4G-IT 2010 part 1

Ciao a tutti,

as announced in a previous post today we start to share the materials produced for the Foss4g-IT conference. Thanks to SUPSI, that in Lugano was host of this nice event, we had a very good time.

In this first part we are sharing the slides of the presentation that Ing Simone Giannecchini, founder of GeoSolutions, illustrated at SUPSI’s Aula Magna.

In this presentation you’ll find the state of art as far as Geoserver and its latest features are concerned: integrated security, dynamic symbolizers and ImageIO-Ext GDAL support. Also, quite interesting, it’s the use case describing an integrated system for scientific purpose that uses open source software to manage environmental and geographic data. This bring us to the definition of OpenSDI, a Spatial Data Infrastructure stack based on open source software that GeoSolutions is creating.

OpenSDI will not be simply an aggregation of different open source geospatial frameworks, it will be an integrated infrastructure based on best-of-breed components to provide, out-of-the-box, a complete, tested, integrated and supported solution for managing an enterprise spatial data infrastructure … and not only!

Soon, in the second part of this post, we will share the live-DVD produced for the foss4g-IT workshop. With this anyone we’ll be able to try and test, in a vary easy way (no installation required), Geoserver and others Geosolutions’s products!

... To be continued ......

Geosolutions Foss4g It 2010

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GeoSolutions Company Profile

At the link below you can find a one-page company profile for GeoSolutions which can also be downloaded as a PDF. Soon I will come up with a longer descriptions of the projects we have been involved since our inception.

GeoSolutions Company Profile

Enjoy,

Simone.

GeoServer presentation @ FOSS4G 2009

Ciao a tutti,

I just got back from my after-FOSS4G vacation, therefore I wanted to publish the presentation I have given down there on our blog. My plan is to come up with an extended (or better, complete) version soon.

Enjoy,

Simone.

Geosolutions FOSS4g 2009 Redux

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NATO Catharsis exercise support

We have been doing on-site support this week for an NATO excercise which is being held in Marciana Marina, on the Elba Island in Italy. The exercise focuses on testing and trials with AUVs to map the sea bed looking for interesting features, like this one!

GeoSolutions has been involved to provide GIS support via its product SAS Mission Manager (temporary name, sas stands for Synthetic Aperture Sonar) in order to preprocess, ingest, manage and visualize the data acquired by the sonar sensors mounted on the AUVs. Here below you can see a screenshot of the architecture which comprises of:

1. GeoBatch for mission data ingestion and preprocessing (which includes mosaic balancing)


2. Cluster of 2 GeoServer with Hibernate catalog (experimental second level cache activated)


3. geoSDI-ERA customization for the user interface

Here below, some screenshot of Ing. Daniele Romagnoli on-site during the exercise providing support to the operational activities.