Budget: $100,000
Project dates: While funding was approved by the CRCSI, formal approval was not received from the partner organization prior to the commencement date, causing the project to fall through. This project would have run February 2018 – January 2019.
The Open Spatial Analytics (OSA) project (Stages 1 and 2) has clearly demonstrated the potential of the “open” paradigm for making spatial analytics reliable, efficient, and shareable. In particular, Stage 2 of the project delivered a robust, scalable, and general-purpose version 1.0 of the OSA software. The project demonstrated the integration of spatial and non-spatial tools in an open, transparent, and scalable platform, enabling the case study of cloud-based construction of the National DEM.
Building on this established national success, Stage 3 will make the transition to providing essential analytics infrastructure for the CRCSI and the spatial community, as the foundations of a national spatial analytics capability (NSAC). Achieving this goal requires further enhancements to OSA. These capabilities include enhanced 3D capabilities, including point cloud processing; enhanced integration with non-spatial domains, including artificial intelligence and machine learning; connections not only to data workflows but to business workflows, including data curation and quality control; and repositories and archiving, including searching and version control of workflows.
No currently available workflow software is able to meet these needs. With limited funding, the CRCSI’s OSA project has positioned itself today as arguably the world’s leading research capabilities in the area of spatial scientific workflows.