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Vol: 53(67) No: 1 / March 2008 Satellite Imagery Application Development by MedioGrid Software Platform Victor Bâcu Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: +40-264-401478, e-mail: victor.bacu@cs.utcluj.ro Dorian Gorgan Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: dorian.gorgan@cs.utcluj.ro, web: http://users.utcluj.ro/~gorgan/ Cornelia Melenti Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: cornelia.melenti@cs.utcluj.ro Keywords: Grid computation, satellite imagery classification, diagrammatical process description, Grid applications Abstract Real-time processing of satellite images on Grid architectures can reveal relevant geographic and environmental information. The paper presents the MedioGrid Software Platform that supports the development of Grid applications. The performance of this software platform is evaluated using three environmental applications: Greenland, Waterland and Minerals. References [1] MedioGRID Project Homepage, (Available: http://mediogrid.utcluj.ro/app). [2] O. Muresan, F. Pop. D. Gorgan. V. Cristea, “Satellite image processing applications in MedioGRID”, in Proceedings of ISPDC06, IEEE Computer Press, (2006), pp 253-260. [3] CrossGrid Project. http://www.crossgrid.org. [4] MEDIgRID (Mediterranean Grid of Multi-risk data and Models); http://www.eu-medigrid.org. [5] SpaceGrid (2006), http://www.spacegrid.org. [6] Earth Observation Grid (2006), http://www.escience.clrc.ac.uk/web/projects/earthobservation. [7] Deelman, J. Blythe, Y. Gil, C. Kesselman, G. Mehta, K. Vahi, K.Blackburn, A. Lazzarini, A. Arbree, R. Cavanaugh, and S. Koranda, “Mapping Abstract Complex Workflows onto Grid Environments”, Journal of Grid Computing, Vol.1, no. 1, 2003, pp. 25-39. [8] DAGMan, Available: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/dagman/. [9] V. Bacu, O.Muresan, D.Gorgan. \"MODIS image based computation of vegetation indices in MedioGRID architecture\". Proceedings of SYNASC06, IEEE Computer Press, (2006), pp. 267-273. [10] V. Bacu, D. Gorgan, “Resource Measurements for Water Detection Algorithm in MedioGrid Architecture”. ISPDC 2007 - 6th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, July 5-8, 2007, Hagenberg, Austria. IEEE Computer Press (2007), pp. 107-114. [11] A. Imbroane1, C. Melenti, D. Gorgan, “Mineral Explorations with Landsat Images Ratios”, IEEE SYNASC, GridCAD2007 Workshop, 28 September, Timisoara. |