Land use update detection based on Geotrellis and Spark

# first, we compile everything and produce a fat jar
# which contains all the dependences
mvn package

# now we can run the example app
java -cp target/biggis-landuse-0.0.7-SNAPSHOT.jar \
  biggis.landuse.spark.examples.GeotiffToPyramid \
  /path/to/raster.tif \
  new_layer_name \
  /path/to/catalog-dir

Code for this example is located inside src/main/scala/biggis.landuse.spark.examples/GettingStarted.scala

# based on https://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis-landsat-tutorial
# download examples from geotrellis-landsat-tutorial
# to data/geotrellis-landsat-tutorial
wget http://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/L8/107/035/LC81070352015218LGN00/LC81070352015218LGN00_B3.TIF
wget http://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/L8/107/035/LC81070352015218LGN00/LC81070352015218LGN00_B4.TIF
wget http://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/L8/107/035/LC81070352015218LGN00/LC81070352015218LGN00_B5.TIF
wget http://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/L8/107/035/LC81070352015218LGN00/LC81070352015218LGN00_BQA.TIF
wget http://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/L8/107/035/LC81070352015218LGN00/LC81070352015218LGN00_MTL.txt

We strongly recommend using an IDE for Scala development, in particular IntelliJ IDEA which has a better support for Scala than Eclipse

For IDE Builds please select Maven Profile IDE before running to avoid using scope provided (necessary for cluster builds)

Since Geotrellis uses Apache Spark for processing, we need to set the spark.master property first.

• For local debugging, the easiest option is to set the VM command line argument to -Dspark.master=local[*].
• Other option for local debugging, that is closer to a cluster setup is to run geotrellis in a docker container as implemented in biggis-spark. In this case, use -Dspark.master=spark://localhost:7077
• Third option is to use a real cluster which can run on the same docker-based infrastructure from biggis-spark

Geotrellis always work with a "catalog" which is basically a directory either in local filesystem or in HDFS. You might want to use target/geotrellis-catalog during development. This way, the catalog will be deleted when running mvn clean and won't be included into git repository.