Derek Dohler
Derek is an engineering lead at Azavea, a software firm that builds geospatial web applications, data analytics, and research tools for good.
Sessions
09-29
11:00
30min
Handling GeoTIFFs in client-side code with GDAL and Loam
Derek Dohler
GDAL provides extensive capabilities for processing GeoTIFFs and other spatial data formats. However, until recently, the use of GDAL in web applications was limited to server-side code. This talk will describe how we use WebAssembly and a new wrapper library we developed, called Loam, to make GDAL's suite of tools accessible from client-side code. This strategy enables improved user experiences and can lower infrastructure costs for web applications handling GeoTIFFs and other spatial data.
Software
Aconcagua