The Matsu Wheel: A Cloud-Based Framework for Efficient Analysis and Reanalysis of Earth Satellite Imagery

Maria T. Patterson, Nikolas Anderson, Collin Bennett, Jacob Bruggemann, Robert L. Grossman, Matthew Handy, Vuong Ly, Daniel J. Mandl, Shane Pederson, James Pivarski, Ray Powell, Jonathan Spring, Walt Wells, John Xia

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Abstract

Project Matsu is a collaboration between the Open Commons Consortium and NASA focused on developing open source technology for the cloud-based processing of Earth satellite imagery. A particular focus is the development of applications for detecting fires and floods to help support natural disaster detection and relief. Project Matsu has developed an open source cloud-based infrastructure to process, analyze, and reanalyze large collections of hyperspectral satellite image data using Open-Stack, Hadoop, MapReduce, Storm and related technologies. We describe a framework for efficient analysis of large amounts of data called the Matsu "Wheel." The Matsu Wheel is currently used to process incoming hyperspectral satellite data produced daily by NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. The framework is designed to be able to support scanning queries using cloud computing applications, such as Hadoop and Accumulo. A scanning query processes all, or most of the data, in a database or data repository. We also describe our preliminary Wheel analytics, including an anomaly detector for rare spectral signatures or thermal anomalies in hyperspectral data and a land cover classifier that can be used for water and flood detection. Each of these analytics can generate visual reports accessible via the web for the public and interested decision makers. The resultant products of the analytics are also made accessible through an Open Geospatial Compliant (OGC)-compliant Web Map Service (WMS) for further distribution. The Matsu Wheel allows many shared data services to be performed together to efficiently use resources for processing hyperspectral satellite image data and other, e.g., large environmental datasets that may be analyzed for many purposes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages156-165
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781509022519
DOIs
StatePublished - May 19 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: Mar 29 2016Apr 1 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService 2016

Conference

Conference2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period3/29/164/1/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems

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