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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2015, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 156-170

Development of software tools for satellite data remote processing in contemporary information systems

A.V. Kashnitskiy1 , I.V. Balashov1 , E.A. Loupian1 , V.A. Tolpin1 , I.A. Uvarov1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
The problem of development of new technologies for satellite observation data processing capable for the efficient extra large continuously updated archive management has become more and more urgent in recent years. “Traditional” approaches propose selecting matching input datasets from the archives, making their local copy for the user or researcher at the first step, and performing data processing and analysis after that. Using of this kind of approach is limited due to a number of factors. The most significant ones are the explosive growth of the data volume acquired from Earth observation satellite systems, the need for selection, transmission and storage of huge data volumes, the existence of powerful datacenter-based computational resources, which typically do not belong to end users. This paper presents the technology of distributed satellite data processing management development in Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS). The technology is aimed at extension of functionality from simple selection and displaying of satellite based information to providing the means of data processing and analysis of data products with use of computational resources located in data archiving and representation centers. The technology enables the researchers to use the distributed information and computational resources as easily as if they were local. It provides capabilities of efficient access to extra large distributed satellite imagery and data products archives. The paper describes the proposed distributed data processing systems architecture and its principal functional capabilities. One can find examples of data processing procedures implementation and use in a number of remote monitoring systems for arrangement of satellite data processing and analysis, including hyperspectral data.
Keywords: remote sensing, information systems, distributed data processing, satellite data processing, web interfaces, extra large data archives, satellite data
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