Lightning Talk: Introduction to Cloud Optimised GeoTiff

[saheelBreezo]

• Abstract (2-3 lines) With the ever increasing demand of satellite imagery its availability to everyone has become a challenge for most of the data providers and the users considering the file size which is in gb's. With the introduction of cloud optimized geotiff and http's range requests you're no longer need to read the whole 20-40 gb image, instead you can read only the segment of the image he's interested in.
• Brief Description and Contents to be covered
  1. Satellite data format Tiff and GeoTiff
  2. Challenges with raw satellite imagery.
  3. What is COG aka Cloud Optimised GeoTiff ?
  4. How to create a COG?
  5. Applications
  6. Command line Instruction to create a COG.
• Pre-requisites for the talk It's an introductory so anyone with an interest in satellite imagery can attend it
• Time required for the talk 7-9 min( approx)
• Link to slides Introduction to Cloud Optimsed GeoTiff
• Will you be doing hands-on demo as well? Not exactly but it will have some command line instructions to create geotiffs
• Link to ipython notebook (if any) NA
• About yourself My name is Saheel Ahmed, I am a computer science engineer, working as a data analyst for more than a year at Blue Sky Analytics, a geospatial data intelligence startup.
• Are you comfortable if the talk is recorded and uploaded to PyData Delhi's YouTube channel ? Yes, sure.
• Any query ?

[MSanKeys963]

Please have a look @shagunsodhani.

[shagunsodhani]

Thanks for proposing the talk @saheelBreezo . Could you consider adding the installation instructions for the gdal_translate tool. You could put it at the end of the slide (just before the thank you slide) so that people know how to get the tool.

[saheelBreezo]

Hey @shagunsodhani , updated the slides with the installation process.

[shagunsodhani]

Looks good to me. Best of luck with the talk.

[shagunsodhani]

cc @MSanKeys963