This page lists technologies under consideration for use considered or actually used in the SKOPE system.
| Niche | Specialty | Weaknesses | Alternatives | Our experience| References | General problem | Specific approach | Advantages | Limitations | Team experiences |
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| AngularJS | | | | | | |
| Clowder | | Data management | Automate processing of new data. | - Extend with extractors that process data based on data type.
| - Supports simple data processing workflows only.
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| Django | | | | | | |
| Docker | | | | | | |
| Electron | | | | | | |
| Flyway | | Database migration | | | | |
| GeoJP2 | | Raster tile format for display or storage. | Extend JPEG2000 with georeference metadata. | - Supports both lossy and lossless compression.
- Generally higher compression than PNG.
| - JPEG2000 not widely supported in web browsers.
- No transparency support.
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| GeoServer | | Serve geospatial data using OGC web services. | | - Web dashboard, web previews of web services.
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| GeoTIFF | | Raster tile format for storage. | Extend TIFF format with georeference metadata. | - Supports both lossy and lossless (DEFLATE) compression.
- Internal data layout can be optimized for expected data access patterns.
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| Girder | | Data management | Share data via RESTful services | | | |
| JPEG | | Raster tile format for display or storage. | | - Supported in web browsers.
- Generally better compression than PNG.
| - Data storage always lossy
- No transparency support
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| Leaflet | | | | | | |
| MapServer | | Serve geospatial data using OGC web services. | |
Mockito | | |
| MBTiles | | Raster tile storage | | | - Stores all tiles in a single SQLite file
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NodeJS | Testing | Mocking Java classes| Mockito | | Unit testing | Mock Java classes | | | |
| NodeJS | | | | | | |
| NetCDF | | Raster tile format for storage. | | - Raster data standard of paleoenvironmental community (Unidata/UCAR)
- Data in NOAA paleoclimate community in this format
- "Self-documenting"—flexible metadata in xml that can fit diverse datasets
- Can be compressed many ways, including DEFLATE (same as PNG)
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| PNG | | Raster tile format for display or storage. | | - Supported in web browsers.
- Lossless compression
- Higher compression than JPEG and JPEG2000 for images with many identical pixel values.
- Transparency support facilitates display of irregular overlays.
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| PostGIS | | | | | | |
| OAuth | | | | | | |
| Rasdaman - Raster Data Manager | | Spatio-termporal database | Array database with SQL-like query language and support for OGC interface standards. | | | |
| React | | | | | | |
| Socrata | | Data management | | | - For government organizations sharing government data
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| Spring |
Boot | Boot | | | | | | |
| Web World Wind | | Web-based visualization of geographic information |
