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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, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 53-66

Evolution of remote monitoring information systems development concepts

E.A. Loupian 1 , M.A. Bourtsev 1 , A.A. Proshin 1 , D.A. Kobets 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 08.06.2018
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-3-53-66
The paper provides the analysis of remote monitoring information systems (RMS) design and development concepts evolution during the last decades along with evolution of Earth remote sensing (ERS) systems and technologies. The paper depicts the main stages of this evolution primarily determined by necessity of effective management of very large data volumes generated by modern ERS systems. The analysis conducted reveals the step-by-step transition from creation of dedicated hardware and software satellite data management infrastructure for a given RMS to maximum use of existing multi-purpose ERS data collection, archiving, processing and dissemination centres features and infrastructure in RMS design. It leads to significant reduction of problem-oriented RMS both development time and development and maintenance cost. The paper provides examples of RMS’s designed according to this concept using the resources provided by the IKI-Monitoring Common Use Centre. The article also discusses remote monitoring information systems design and support concepts evolution trends and highlights the reasonability of developing a dedicated information environment for efficient development of RMS’s. Such an environment could provide various resources for RMS developers including convenient and standard data access services, data analysis and processing services, computational and hosting resources and RMS development and distributed control tools.
Keywords: remote monitoring information systems, Earth observation satellite systems, monitoring systems, automated data processing technologies, remote sensing data, distributed information systems, very large data archives
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