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An interoperable web portal for parallel geoprocessing of satellite image vegetation indices

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The main objective of this paper is to introduce a portal of geoprocessing services that can be used to compute either a single vegetation index or a combination of vegetation indices, as a workflow. High Performance Computing (HPC) resources are used for the calculations, and the Web Processing Service (WPS) standard is used to handle the requests from and the responses to the portal. In case of a workflow, a single node of the cluster is dedicated to each index, and the number of used cores depends on the complexity of the task. In addition, based on a series of experiments made to accelerate remote sensing image processing, a parallelization method within the computational node is automatically chosen depending on the complexity of the operations and the amount of data. The suggested algorithm optimizes the processing by selecting the best methodology (serial or parallel) and the number of cores to efficiently manipulate and distribute the data. The interoperable web portal, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and the heterogeneous resources of HPC cluster are located in the same local area network, and the cluster nodes have access to the data via network file system sharing. The use of standardized web services makes it possible to use remote data as inputs.

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This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no 137325) through the project SCOPES ARPEGEO (”Deploying ARmenian distributed Processing capacities for Environmental GEOspatial data” (ARP 2011)).

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  1. Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

    H. Astsatryan, A. Hayrapetyan, W. Narsisian & A. Saribekyan

  2. Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

    Sh. Asmaryan, A. Saghatelyan & V. Muradyan

  3. Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Y. Guigoz, G. Giuliani & N. Ray

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Astsatryan, H., Hayrapetyan, A., Narsisian, W. et al. An interoperable web portal for parallel geoprocessing of satellite image vegetation indices. Earth Sci Inform 8, 453–460 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-014-0165-3

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