GeoTrellis Module Hierarchy

This is a full list of all GeoTrellis modules. While there is some interdependence between them, you can depend on as many (or as few) of them as you want in your build.sbt.

geotrellis-accumulo

Implements geotrellis.store types for Apache Accumulo.

Provides: geotrellis.store.accumulo.*

  • Save and load layers to and from Accumulo. Query large layers efficiently using the layer query API.

geotrellis-accumulo-spark

Implements geotrellis.spark.store types for Apache Accumulo, extending geotrellis-accumulo.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.store.accumulo.*

  • Save and load layers to and from Accumulo within a Spark Context using RDDs.
  • Supoort Accumulo backend for TileLayerRDDs.

geotrellis-cassandra

Implements geotrellis.store types for Apache Cassandra.

Provides: geotrellis.store.cassandra.*

  • Save and load layers to and from Cassandra. Query large layers efficiently using the layer query API.

geotrellis-cassandra-spark

Implements geotrellis.spark.store types for Apache Cassandra, extending geotrellis-cassandra.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.store.cassandra.*

  • Save and load layers to and from Cassandra within a Spark Context using RDDs.
  • Supoort Accumulo backend for TileLayerRDDs.

geotrellis-gdal

Implements GeoTrellis GDAL support.

Provides: geotrellis.raster.gdal.*

  • Implements GDALRasterSources to read, reproject, resample, convert rasters. Performs all transformations via GDALWarp.

geotrellis-gdal-spark

Contains geotrellis.raster.gdal.* integration tests for Spark.

geotrellis-geomesa

Experimental. GeoTrellis compatibility for the distributed feature store GeoMesa.

Provides: geotrellis.geomesa.geotools.* Provides: geotrellis.spark.store.geomesa.*

  • Save and load RDDs of features to and from GeoMesa.

geotrellis-geotools

Provides: geotrellis.geotools.*

  • Conversion functions between GeoTrellis, OpenGIS and GeoTools Features.

Provides: geotrellis.geotools.*

geotrellis-geowave

Experimental. GeoTrellis compatibility for the distributed feature store GeoWave.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.io.geowave.*

  • Save and load RDDs of features to and from GeoWave.

geotrellis-hbase

Implements geotrellis.store types for Apache HBase.

Provides: geotrellis.store.hbase.*

  • Save and load layers to and from HBase. Query large layers efficiently using the layer query API.

geotrellis-hbase-spark

Implements geotrellis.spark.store types for Apache hbase, extending geotrellis-hbase.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.store.hbase.*

  • Save and load layers to and from HBase within a Spark Context using RDDs.
  • Supoort Accumulo backend for TileLayerRDDs.

geotrellis-layer

Datatypes to describe Layers (sets of spatially referenced rasters).

Provides: geotrellis.layer.*

  • Generic way to represent key value Seq as layers, where the key represents a coordinate in space based on some uniform grid layout, optionally with a temporal component.
  • Contains data types to describe LayoutSchemes and LayoutDefinitions, KeyBounds, layer key types (SpatialKey, SpaceTimeKey) and TileLayerMetadata layer metadata type.
  • Implements SpaceTimeKey collection layer projection to the SpatialKey space.
  • MapAlgebra (focal and local) for collection layers.
  • Mask and Stitch operations for collection layers.
  • Implements tiling for RasterSources.

geotrellis-macros

The intention of this package is to keep API both performant and expressive enough.

Provides: geotrellis.macros.*

  • Contains inline macro implementations for Tile NoData, foreach, map and some type conversions.

geotrellis-proj4

Provides: geotrellis.proj4.*, org.osgeo.proj4.* (Java)

  • Represent a Coordinate Reference System (CRS) based on Ellipsoid, Datum, and Projection.
  • Translate CRSs to and from proj4 string representations.
  • Lookup CRS’s based on EPSG and other codes.
  • Transform (x, y) coordinates from one CRS to another.

geotrellis-raster

Types and algorithms for Raster processing.

Provides: geotrellis.raster.*

  • Provides types to represent single- and multi-band rasters, supporting Bit, Byte, UByte, Short, UShort, Int, Float, and Double data, with either a constant NoData value (which improves performance) or a user defined NoData value.
  • Treat a tile as a collection of values, by calling “map” and “foreach”, along with floating point valued versions of those methods (separated out for performance).
  • Combine raster data in generic ways.
  • Render rasters via color ramps and color maps to PNG and JPG images.
  • Read GeoTiffs with DEFLATE, LZW, and PackBits compression, including horizontal and floating point prediction for LZW and DEFLATE.
  • Write GeoTiffs with DEFLATE or no compression.
  • Reproject rasters from one CRS to another.
  • Resample of raster data.
  • Mask and Crop rasters.
  • Split rasters into smaller tiles, and stitch tiles into larger rasters.
  • Derive histograms from rasters in order to represent the distribution of values and create quantile breaks.
  • Local Map Algebra operations: Abs, Acos, Add, And, Asin, Atan, Atan2, Ceil, Cos, Cosh, Defined, Divide, Equal, Floor, Greater, GreaterOrEqual, InverseMask, Less, LessOrEqual, Log, Majority, Mask, Max, MaxN, Mean, Min, MinN, Minority, Multiply, Negate, Not, Or, Pow, Round, Sin, Sinh, Sqrt, Subtract, Tan, Tanh, Undefined, Unequal, Variance, Variety, Xor, If
  • Focal Map Algebra operations: Hillshade, Aspect, Slope, Convolve, Conway’s Game of Life, Max, Mean, Median, Mode, Min, MoransI, StandardDeviation, Sum
  • Zonal Map Algebra operations: ZonalHistogram, ZonalPercentage
  • Polygonal Summary operations that summarize raster data intersecting polygons: Min, Mean, Max, Sum, Histogram.
  • Cost distance operation based on a set of starting points and a friction raster.
  • Hydrology operations: Accumulation, Fill, and FlowDirection.
  • Rasterization of geometries and the ability to iterate over cell values covered by geometries.
  • Vectorization of raster data.
  • Kriging Interpolation of point data into rasters.
  • Viewshed operation.
  • RegionGroup operation.
  • Kernel density estimation.
  • Raster histogram equalization and matching methods.
  • Delaunay triangulation rasterizer.
  • Provides an abstract, higher order API for reading RasterSources from different sources. RasterSource is an abstraction over I/O implementations. Other GeoTrellis packages provide concrete RasterSource implementations, such as GDALRasterSource in a geotrellis.raster.gdal package.
  • Implements lazy RasterSource transformation operations: reprojection, resampling and cellType conversion.

geotrellis-raster-testkit

Integration tests for geotrellis-raster.

  • Build test raster data.
  • Assert raster data matches Array data or other rasters in scalatest.

geotrellis-s3

Implements the geotrellis.store types for the AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) backend.

Allows the use of Amazon S3 as a Tile layer backend.

Provides: geotrellis.store.s3.*

  • Save/load raster layers to/from S3
  • Save/load Cloud Optimized GeoTiffs (COGs) to/from S3

geotrellis-s3-spark

Implements geotrellis.store and geotrellis.spark types for interoperability between GeoTrellis, Spark and S3.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.store.s3.*

  • Save/load Spark RDD Tile layers to/from S3
  • Support S3 operations on GeoTiff, COG and Slippy tiles
  • Use SaveToS3 to save pyramided image and vector tile layers in X/Y/Z format

geotrellis-shapefile

Provides: geotrellis.shapefile.*

  • Read geometry and feature data from shapefiles into GeoTrellis types using GeoTools.

geotrellis-spark

Tile layer algorithms powered by Apache Spark.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.*

  • Generic way to represent key value RDDs as layers, where the key represents a coordinate in space based on some uniform grid layout, optionally with a temporal component.
  • Represent spatial or spatiotemporal raster data as an RDD of raster tiles.
  • Generic architecture for saving/loading layers RDD data and metadata to/from various backends, using Spark’s IO API with Space Filling Curve indexing to optimize storage retrieval (support for Hilbert curve and Z order curve SFCs). HDFS and local file system are supported backends by default, S3 and Accumulo are supported backends by the geotrellis-s3 and geotrellis-accumulo projects, respectively.
  • Query architecture that allows for simple querying of layer data by spatial or spatiotemporal bounds.
  • Perform map algebra operations on layers of raster data, including all supported Map Algebra operations mentioned in the geotrellis-raster feature list.
  • Perform seamless reprojection on raster layers, using neighboring tile information in the reprojection to avoid unwanted NoData cells.
  • Pyramid up layers through zoom levels using various resampling methods.
  • Types to reason about tiled raster layouts in various CRS’s and schemes.
  • Perform operations on raster RDD layers: crop, filter, join, mask, merge, partition, pyramid, render, resample, split, stitch, and tile.
  • Polygonal summary over raster layers: Min, Mean, Max, Sum.
  • Save spatially keyed RDDs of byte arrays to z/x/y files into HDFS or the local file system. Useful for saving PNGs off for use as map layers in web maps or for accessing GeoTiffs through z/x/y tile coordinates.
  • Utilities around creating spark contexts for applications using GeoTrellis, including a Kryo registrator that registers most types.
  • Implements GeoTrellis COGLayer creation, persistence and query mechanisms.

geotrellis-spark-pipeline

Pipelines are the operative construct in GeoTrellis, the original idea was taken from PDAL. Pipelines represent a set of instructions rather than a simple ETL process: how to read data, transform (process), write it. The result of the Pipeline should not always be writing, it can also be some intermediate transformation result, or just a raw data.

Provides: geotrellis.spark.pipeline.*

  • Provides a JSON DSL that represents a set of instructions performed on some data source.
  • Provides a Scala DSL that abstracts over GeoTrellis pipeline operations. It also allows users to avoid manually writing the JSON DSL.
  • Allows reads (from local file system, s3, hdfs, etc), transformations (tile-to-layout, reproject, pyramid) and writes (all supported GeoTrellis stores).

geotrellis-spark-testkit

Integration tests for geotrellis-spark.

  • Utility code to create test RDDs of raster data.
  • Matching methods to test equality of RDDs of raster data in scalatest unit tests.

geotrellis-store

Types and interfaces for interacting with a number of different storage backends in an abstract way.

In older versions of GeoTrellis, store implementations were referred to as backends.

Provides: geotrellis.store.*

  • Contains interfaces for LayerReaders, LayerWriters and ValueReaders.
  • Avro Tile codecs.
  • Local file system and HDFS COG and GeoTrellis Value and Collection readers implementation.
  • Indexing strategies implementation: ZCurve and HilbertCurve.
  • GeoTrellisRasterSources that implement access to GeoTrellis layers through the new API.

geotrellis-util

Plumbing for other GeoTrellis modules.

Provides: geotrellis.util.*

  • Constants
  • Data structures missing from Scala, such as BTree
  • Haversine implementation
  • Lenses
  • RangeReaderProvider for reading contiguous subsets of data from a source
  • Implementations for FileRangeReader and HttpRangeReader

geotrellis-vector

Types and algorithms for processing Vector data.

Provides: geotrellis.vector.*

  • Provides idiomatic helpers for the JTS types: Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, GeometryCollection
  • Methods for geometric operations supported in JTS, with results that provide a type-safe way to match over possible results of geometries.
  • Provides a Feature type that is the composition of an id, geometry and a generic data type.
  • Read and write geometries and features to and from GeoJSON.
  • Read and write geometries to and from WKT and WKB.
  • Reproject geometries between two CRSs.
  • Geometric operations: Convex Hull, Densification, Simplification
  • Perform Kriging interpolation on point values.
  • Perform affine transformations of geometries

geotrellis-vector-testkit

Integration tests for geotrellis-vector.

  • GeometryBuilder for building test geometries
  • GeometryMatcher for scalatest unit tests, which aides in testing equality in geometries with an optional threshold.

geotrellis-vectortile

Experimental. A full Mapbox VectorTile codec.

Provides: geotrellis.vectortile.*

  • Lazy decoding
  • Read/write VectorTile tile layers from any tile backend