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

[Till Adams]

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