Advancing Canadian Satellite Earth Observation Analytics
Our mission: To enable Canadian industry, academia and government to embrace the new era of satellite Earth observation analytics using cloud and high-performance computing environments
What is GEO Analytics Canada?
GEO Analytics Canada is a cloud native, open platform for Big Data geoscience that can be customized and deployed in your own cloud or HPC infrastructure
What makes GEO Analytics Canada Different
GEO Analytics Canada isn’t the only satellite EO data analytics platform out there. We’ve used these platforms ourselves, and have worked with partners to develop other platforms.
So what makes GEO Analytics Canada different?
We help you build & host your own platform
- GEO Analytics Canada platform showcases how you can address the big geospatial data challenge
- We provide cloud computing and geospatial analytics expertise to support you to develop your solution that is owned by you
Cloud native
- GEO Analytics Canada platform is built from the ground-up to leverage the power of cloud computing
- Cloud geospatial involves more than simply migrating desktop apps to the cloud
Infrastructure vendor agnostic
- GEO Analytics Canada platform can be installed on a wide variety of cloud computing providers.
- We can pursue hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that exploit pre-existing distributed data stores, such as Landsat and Sentinel data
- Can use only Canadian data storage and compute resource to fulfill Canadian privacy laws which require data to be kept in Canada.
Developer friendly
- GEO Analytics Canada platform enables you to develop your own algorithms and systems in Python
- Scale processing dynamically and massively using industry standards such as Kubernetes and Docker
Part of an ecosystem of open architected systems
- GEO Analytics Canada platform is a starting point towards an open architected, distributed ecosystem approach
- Your platform should not require all data and tools to be centralized in one place – data and processing resources can be distributed
Supports open science
- GEO Analytics Canada platform supports the key tenants of open science
- “openness, transparency, scrutiny and traceability of results, access to large volume of complex data, and the availability of community open tools”
Canadian focused
- Uses only Canadian data storage and compute resource.
- Supports Canadian organizations that are required to fulfill Canadian privacy laws which require data to be kept in Canada.
Technical Notes
GEO Analytics Canada Introduced at the 2020 Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
On July 14 2020, GEO Analytics Canada was introduced at the 2020 Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. The video presentation …Technical Guide on Earth Observation and the Global Environment Facility
A new Earth observation publication was released this month, developed for the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global …Efficient Satellite Data Processing in Cloud Computing with GCSFuse and Goofys
One of our goals at GEO Analytics Canada is to develop an approach to utilize Kubernetes to process and store …Landsat big data analysis presented at PTAC Ecological Issues Forum
The Society for Ecosystem Restoration in Northern BC (SERNbc), BC Government, and Hatfield completed a systematic analysis of landscape disturbance …STAC, ZARR, COG, K8S and Data Cubes: The brave new world of satellite EO analytics in the cloud
At the GeoAlberta 2019 conference in Red Deer, Alberta (Nov 13 & 14, 2019), Jason Suwala made a presentation titled …
What we’re reading
UK Parliament Report: Remote sensing and machine learning
There is increasing interest in using machine learning to automatically …NASA Datasets Available in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs
In collaboration with the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Public Dataset …GEO Virtual Symposium 2020
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Virtual Symposium 2020 will …Video: Landsat Data is Moving to the Cloud
The Landsat series of Earth-observing satellites has been continuously acquiring …