Live GIS GSoC 2015

= OSGeo-Live Google Summer of Code ideas 2015 =

About
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.

This GSoC 2015 Idea will focus on the development of a cross-projects python library with the aim of bridging together the several software libraries installed on the live trough the use of the Ipython notebook in a series of "topic-oriented" notebooks. This work will not include only python libraries, the ipython notebook support different type of kernel including R and Bash (enabling the use in a notebook of any command line tools installed on the live) With a strong focus on the "educational" side of the OSGeo-Live this idea will improve substantially the users experience in having access to many tools under the OSGeo umbrella learn how to bring them together to build new information from the datset already available on the OSGeo-live disc as well as learn how to process geospatial data using other scientific tools for data exploration.

The "topic-oriented" notebooks can include :

Main apps to be integrated (GDAL, GRASS, OSSIM, R, OTB, Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, R, owslib, netcdf4-python, pycsw, openlayer/leaflet/cesium, qgis-browser, gmt, postgis) in addition to the python specific projects (e.g. fiona, shapely, geopandas, scikit-image, pysal, cartopy, iris, and more)
 * I/O raster and vector data (import export between several formats, subsetting, sql query)
 * reprojection
 * access to wed resources using OGC standard
 * raster algebra (single array operation, filtering, band merge, band-ratio, time-series)
 * satellite derived product (working with landsat e/o modis dataset)
 * access to netcdf
 * intro to geostatistic
 * simple web-gis products (publish result of processing in projects based on js library like openlayers, leaflet and similar)
 * more ...

Student

 * Massimo Di Stefano 

OSGeo Resources

 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015_Ideas


 * UbuntuGIS packaging: http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/#Packagers


 * 2013 .deb packaging project: http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/Proposal


 * Debian GIS packaging policy

Mailing lists


 * OSGeo-Live
 * UbuntuGIS
 * Debian GIS
 * Debian Mentors

Results

 * OSGeo-Live ideas in GSoC 2015