Geospatial data analysis often requires large amounts of computation, which can be resource-intensive and time-consuming. This poses a significant challenge for organizations dealing with vast datasets, such as those in the building and civil engineering, regional planning or industrial sectors.
To avoid saturating servers and time and resource wasting, GeoCassini can be a solution to manage and share geospatial data efficiently, preventing server overload.
What do we mean by Geospatial Data?
Geospatial data refers to information that identifies the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on the Earth’s surface. It is often used to create maps, models, and visualizations that help in understanding spatial patterns and relationships.
Geospatial data have its importance in various fields, such as:
- Urban planning to analyze land use patterns, identify areas suitable for development, and plan infrastructure projects or design efficient transportation networks, optimizing routes, and managing traffic congestion for example.
- Environmental monitoring for monitoring and managing natural resources such as forests, water bodies, and mineral deposits, tracking pollution levels or monitoring changes in climate patterns, glacier retreat and sea-level rise.
- Agriculture to optimize crop yields by analyzing soil conditions, weather patterns, and other environmental factors.
- Other fields, such as public health, defense and security or disaster management.
All these sectors of activity require large-scale data collection, which takes up a huge amount of server space and a complex data management.
The Need for Efficient Geospatial Data Management
Geospatial data management involves the collection, storage, manipulation and analysis of spatial information. The current landscape of geospatial data management is evolving rapidly, driven by advancements in technology and increasing data volumes. While traditional methods have laid the foundation, they face significant limitations in terms of:
- Scalability: Traditional systems often struggle to handle the vast amounts of data generated by modern sensors and devices.
- Interoperability: Different data formats, standards, and proprietary systems can hinder data sharing and integration. Traditional methods may not adhere to open standards, making it difficult to exchange data between organizations.
- Real-Time Processing: Traditional systems are often batch-oriented and not designed for real-time data processing.
- Cost: Traditional geospatial data management systems can be expensive to implement and maintain, particularly for small organizations or those with limited resources.
- Data Quality and Accuracy: Ensuring the quality and accuracy of geospatial data can be challenging with traditional methods. Manual data entry and processing can introduce errors, and outdated technologies may not provide the precision required for modern applications.
- Security and Privacy: Traditional systems may not have robust security measures in place to protect sensitive geospatial data. Additionally, privacy concerns can arise when handling personal location data.
Modern approaches, leveraging cloud computing, open-source software, AI, and spatial data infrastructures, are addressing these challenges and enabling more effective and efficient management of geospatial data. However, the problem of server saturation remains, even with current techniques.
Server saturation can have profound consequences, including slow data access, reduced productivity, potential data loss, financial impacts, security risks, and operational disruptions.
Introducing GeoCassini
To avoid server saturation, your company can choose to implement robust monitoring and management practices, invest in a scalable infrastructure and ensure that its systems are designed to handle peak loads effectively. You can also choose GeoCassini to store, manage and exploit your data.
GeoCassini is a 100% web-based platform dedicated to storing, managing, processing, updating and exchanging geospatial data.
With GeoCassini, you opt for:
- Centralization of your data,
- Saving time and reducing costs,
- Powerful partner functionalities and algorithms,
- Interoperability and compatibility with numerous software applications,
- Adaptability to a wide range of business sectors.
With GeoCassini:
- Use all your data in the cloud
Whether it’s 3D point clouds, 360° photos, CAD (dwg, dgn…), Shape, Mesh, GED, Qjis, IFC objects, digital mock-ups, orthophotos… Our “DataBase” solution lets you exploit your data in complete security.
- Create projects for all your needs
The “Project” functionality groups together all the operational information you need to work on.
- Publish and market data produced and/or stored in “DataBase”
With “MarketPlace”, you can publish and market your data and projects. Publication includes the traceability elements entered during loading, and enables you to contact the owner of the data: point clouds, digital models, panoramic photos, topographical plans, GIS…
How GeoCassini Prevents Server Saturation
As we have seen, GeoCassini is a 100% web-based SaaS platform designed for the efficient management of geospatial data. Here’s how GeoCassini efficiently stores and manages geospatial data, thereby reducing the load on individual servers:
- All-in-One Approach: GeoCassini adopts an all-in-one approach to manage and exploit geospatial data. It integrates various functionalities into a single platform, allowing users to combine multiple files into projects and enabling all stakeholders to view or modify data.
- Cloud-Based Infrastructure: As a SaaS platform, GeoCassini leverages cloud-based infrastructure to store, manage and exchange geospatial data. Cloud computing provides scalable resources, ensuring that the platform can handle varying loads without overburdening individual servers. This scalability is crucial for managing large volumes of geospatial data efficiently.
- Interoperability and Data Sharing: The platform supports interoperability by allowing the database to be used by any connected software, whether cloud-based or desktop. This interoperability ensures that data can be easily shared and accessed by different applications and users. Additionally, GeoCassini allows direct sharing of the database with any user or group, further facilitating efficient data management.
- Customizable Solutions: The platform offers customizable solutions for processing geospatial data, tailored to meet specific project needs. This customization ensures that resources are used efficiently.
- Efficient Data Visualization: GeoCassini ensures that loaded data is visible directly to dedicated viewers, which means that data visualization processes are optimized.
In summary, GeoCassini’s approach to geospatial data management involves leveraging cloud-based infrastructure, promoting interoperability, and offering customizable solutions. These features help in efficiently storing and managing geospatial data, thereby reducing the load on individual servers and ensuring optimal performance.
Real-World Applications
Read what our customers have to say about how GeoCassini has changed the way they manage their geospatial data.
The principle behind VEOLIA Eau's digital GIS twin is to provide a detailed digital representation of its wastewater treatment facilities and their environment.
GeoCassini enables us to aggregate all our GIS data and its environment, by visualizing all LiDAR data in an immersive view.
GeoCassini also enables us to update our class A data with a simple video survey (converted into point clouds) from a smartphone or GoPro-type camera of our structures during open-trench work phases. The platform also makes the data available to our local authority customers, who can also visualize the structures and their surroundings for all their uses.
Julien LELIEVRE, Sanitation Network Expert - Veolia France
As an engineering group, we deal with heavy data on a daily basis for reverse engineering (digital reconstruction of an existing space), design (design of structures, infrastructure, buildings...) or inspection (maintenance and operation) missions.
The SaaS platform enables our engineers to manipulate point clouds more easily, and to cross-reference them with other types of data (GIS, BIM, field data...).
GeoCassini's great strength lies in its ecosystem of partners, who provide access to “turnkey” solutions directly from the platform.
This makes GeoCassini a true gateway to extremely powerful solutions. For example, we can now access, from GeoCassini, the classification and automatic vectorization algorithms of TCP (The Cross Product), specialized in linear infrastructures (road, rail, energy transport...).
Alexis MARIANI, Deputy Managing Director Cities and Territories - Setec
