Unlocking the Australian Landsat Archive - From dark data to High Performance Data infrastructures

GeoResJ

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-140

  Purss, Matthew B J ^a   Lewis, Adam ^a   Oliver, Simon ^a   Ip, Alex ^a   Sixsmith, Joshua ^a   Evans, Ben ^b   Edberg, Roger ^b   Frankish, Glenn ^c   Hurst, Lachlan ^d   Chan, Tai ^e  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b National Computational Infrastructure   (Australia)

^c Lockheed Martin Australia   (Australia)

^d Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing ^*  (Australia)

^e Global Spatial Network Board   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big data; Data rescue; Earth Observation; High Performance Computing; High Performance Data; Landsat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925763662     PISSN: 22142428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.grj.2015.02.010     Document Type: Article

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