AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Rabie Almatarneh
Rabie is a solutions architect at AWS in worldwide public sector based in Ottawa, Canada. He works with Canadian federal government customers with a focus on science and research. Before joining AWS, Rabie spent 13 years in the field of software development and solutions architecture.
How Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada built a cloud-based coherence change detection solution with AWS
Monitoring agricultural practices across Canada’s vast landscape is essential for preserving soil health and water quality. To address this challenge at scale, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) collaborated with AWS to build a cloud-based proof of concept (PoC) solution that processes synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery, which can detect changes in agricultural land use and tillage practices.
Accelerating data processing for IRCC with Amazon EC2 instances
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) faced a significant challenge: the need to perform complex fuzzy string matching across two different datasets. IRCC embarked on a transformative project that redefined its data processing capabilities and showcased the power of cloud computing in overcoming substantial data challenges. Instead of dealing with months of undifferentiated heavy lifting activities, IRCC successfully used Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to complete the work in a only few days. Read this post to learn more.