Eclipse Newsletter - 2017.11.22 Location Matters Editor's Note There is an assumption that up to 80% of all objects and activities are linked to a specific and unique location, permanently or at any given time. This implies that a majority of all - big and small - data has a spatial or spatial-temporal component. Something that is of great value for asset management, remote sensing, IoT, and autonomous cars, just to name a few. No wonder that geospatial technology has become the must-have in many commercial and industrial applications. LocationTech, an Eclipse Foundation Working Group for spatially aware technology, is the home for Big (and smaller) Geospatial Data processing and visualization components and development tools. Within LocationTech, a variety of stakeholders collaborate on projects that deal with the various challenges presented by the 'Big Data V's'. This issue of the Eclipse Newsletter is dedicated to some of the latest Big Geospatial Data development projects available. We kick off with an article about the open source geospatial toolkit, JTS 1.15. We then explore LocationTech GeoTrellis before moving on to two case studies: 1) exactEarth and GeoMesa being used for Hurricane Harvey and 2) Spatial Data and Precision Agriculture. Finally, we learn what's new in GeoGig 1.2. You are welcome to join the conversation, participate, and benefit regardless of background - industry, government, science, or academia, etc. We'd like to thank the Eclipse LocationTech community for contributing these articles. It was a great pleasure to work with each author and the community as a whole. Articles Geospatial starts with Geometry A cornerstone of the open source geospatial toolkit, JTS 1.15 brings spatial data types, spatial relationships, and spatial operations for processing geometries to the Eclipse Foundation. LocationTech GeoTrellis - What's New GeoTrellis continues to advance the field of distributed processing of geospatial imagery and raster data. Maritime Location Intelligence with exactEarth data and LocationTech GeoMesa The CCRI team shows how exactEarth’s maritime dataset was used with GeoMesa to explore shipping traffic during Hurricane Harvey. Spatial Data and Precision Agriculture Witness the power of LocationTech software when used as a tool for precision agriculture and large scale farming. LocationTech GeoGig 1.2.0 now released! GeoGig 1.2 delivers improved usability with QGIS, better Replication and support for GeoServer 2.12. | 
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