FOSS4GNA 2023 | Geo Unleashed: How Apache Sedona is Revolutionizing Geospatial Data Analysis

Written By Joe Calamari

Summary:

- The speaker introduces themselves as a co-founder and Chief Architect of We Robots.

- They discuss the challenges of analyzing geospatial data due to its large scale.

- They introduce Apache Sedona as an open-source computing engine for processing geospatial data.

- Sedona provides distributed query algorithms and APIs for different programming languages.

- The speaker demonstrates examples of spatial SQL queries that can be performed in Sedona.

- They explain the importance of correctly calculating distances between geographic locations.

- Sedona also supports raster data processing, such as analyzing temperature observations.

Highlights:

- Apache Sedona is revolutionizing geospatial data analysis with its scalable and efficient processing capabilities.

Joe Calamari
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