BIGEARTH
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PROJECT TITLE: Flexible Processing of Big Earth Data Over High Performance Computing Architectures — BIGEARTH
Coordinator:
- CGIS (Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems) Laboratory
- Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Partners: –
Period: 29 November 2013 – 29 November 2016
Project director: Prof.dr.ing. Dorian Gorgan
Project team: 44 PM
8 researchers, 4 PhD students, 1 MSc student
Description:
- Explore techniques and methodologies to develop and execute analytics on Big Earth Data
- Provide flexible and interactive description of HPC processing (High Performance Computing)
Focus on:
- Access data, knowledge, and information
- User’s access to simple and complex processing algorithms
- Processing scheduling
- Execution performance
- High performance platforms:
- Grid
- Cloud
- Multicore
- Cluster
- Interoperability based on
- OGC standard services
Project objectives:
- Flexible description of processing for knowledge extraction from big Earth Observation (EO) data
- HPC oriented solutions for adaptive and portable processing of EO analytics
- EO data processing interoperability based on OGC standard services
- EO oriented development methodologies based on flexible and adaptive complex processing
- Use case development and experimental validation for representative EO use cases
Activities:
- WP1 – Project Management
- WP2 – Earth Observation data models
- WP3 – Flexible description and adaptive processing solutions
- WP4 – High performance computing infrastructures
- WP5 – Use case development and experimental validation
- WP6 – Disemination and publication
Contributions to the STAR programme objectives:
Homepage: BIGEARTH