[Incubator] Application to host Open Source Project "actinia" under the umbrella of OSGeo

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Cameron, all,

thanks for you positive feedback on our application proposal!

Indeed there are multiple deployments: for ESA we operated a Sentinel-2
metadata service called "EO-me" [1] which uses actinia as a backend.
Then we have it actively deployed in a big telecommunications project on
glass fibre route planning  [2] for a big telecom company in Germany.
Besides that, we use actinia in the openEO H2020 research project [3] as
a backend [4]. Through openEO, we are in discussions with other datacube
related initiatives.
Thanks for the pointer to the Australian DataCube project!

Best regards,

Markus Neteler & Till Adams


[1]
https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/-/filter-sentinel-2a-scenes-with-the-new-release-of-eo-me
[2] https://www.mundialis.de/en/trassenplanung/
[3] http://openeo.org/
[4] https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-grassgis-driver


On 10/31/18 7:57 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Hi Till and Markus,
>
> Actina sounds like a good candidate for an OSGeo community project.
> Has the server side been deployed in more than one location? (Multiple
> deployments provides a strong indication of sustainability and quality
> of documentation, as it means others have been able to get it up and
> running).
>
> Also, on the surface, it sounds like it is playing in the same area as
> the DataCube project,
> http://nci.org.au/services/virtual-laboratories/australian-geoscience-data-cube/
> .  It would be interesting to see if there are opportunities for
> collaboration. I'm looping in Alex Leith who is involved in the
> project and might want to discuss further.
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
>
> On 31/10/18 11:30 pm, Till Adams wrote:
>> Dear Incubation Committee,
>>
>> we would like to introduce you to our cloud based geoprocessing platform
>> "actinia".
>> Actinia is an Open Source REST API for scalable, distributed, high
>> performance processing of geographical data that uses GRASS GIS for
>> computational tasks. Actinia orchestrates it's own workers and
>> parallelizes processes optimized on cloud-environments.
>>
>> Actinia provides a REST API to e.g. process satellite images, time
>> series of satellite images, arbitrary raster data with geographical
>> relations and vector data.
>>
>> The REST interface allows to access, manage and manipulate the GRASS GIS
>> database via HTTP GET,PUT,POST and DELETE requests and to process
>> raster, vector and time series data located in a persistent GRASS GIS
>> database.
>>
>> You can find the code on github:
>> https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core
>> The ithub page already delivers some examples on how t use it.
>>
>> There are already several plugins available:
>> https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_satellite_plugin
>> https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_statistic_plugin
>>
>> Further there is a swagger based API-documentation and also a
>> testing-installation on a mundialis-server:
>> https://actinia.mundialis.de/
>>
>> The license is GPL 3 and yes, we are happy and very open for external
>> contributors. For the first step, we would like to get actinia listed on
>> the OSGeo webpage and later would like to release it as an OSGeo
>> community project.
>>
>> There are no further plans on how to proceed then, everything is
>> possible (e.g. official incubation).
>>
>> Our plans with the software are as follows: There is already a
>> GDI-connector, we call it actiniaGDI, which is not yet on github and
>> that needs some more time, because it's a project-related solution in
>> the moment. But releasing actiniaGDI on github (and as Open Source) is
>> on our list. Also, we think about having a QGIS-PlugIn, that allows to
>> access actinia-server(s).
>>
>>
>> We are happy to receive your support, if there are any questions, we are
>> happy to help!
>>
>> Till Adams & Markus Neteler
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