Development of a Cloud-Based Web Geospatial Information System for Agricultural Monitoring Using Sentinel-2 Data

This paper presents a system architecture of a cloud-based web geographic information system (GIS) used to develop a web mapping application for agricultural monitoring. It incorporates a dynamic web map tile service (WMTS) with a geospatial processing service (GPS) for distributed calculations. The system implementation results in a web GIS deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and exposed to the client as a set of RESTful APIs. The functionality provided by the system is used in the application to visualize crop type maps and calculate a core set of descriptive statistics, that summarize the values of vegetation indices for a user defined area of interest over a time period, using Sentinel-2 data.