Structure, components, and interfaces of the airborne prism experiment (APEX) processing and archiving facility

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-43

  Hueni, Andreas ^a   Biesemans, Jan ^b   Meuleman, Koen ^b   Dell'Endice, Francesco ^a   Schlapfer, Daniel ^a   Odermatt, Daniel ^a   Kneubuehler, Mathias ^a   Adriaensen, Stefan ^b   Kempenaers, Stephen ^b   Nieke, Jens ^c   Itten, Klaus I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Database systems; Hyperspectral data calibration; On demand processing; Parallel processing; System architecture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE SENSORS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PRISMS; SENSORS;

AIRBORNE PRISM EXPERIMENTS; AUTOMATED GENERATIONS; CONFIGURABLE; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENTS; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOW; GENERIC DESIGNS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARES; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA CALIBRATION; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS; LEVEL-1; NEW PROCESSING; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; ON-DEMAND PROCESSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURES; PROCESSING MODULES; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; PRODUCT GENERATIONS; RELATIONAL DATABASES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

EID: 58149129408     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005828     Document Type: Article

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