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The lack of open-source tools for hyperspectral data visualization and analysiscreates a demand for new tools. In this paper we present the new PlanetServer,a set of tools comprising a web Geographic Information System (GIS) and arecently…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 R. Marco Figuera , B. Pham Huu , A. P. Rossi , M. Minin , J. Flahaut , A. Halder

Surficial geologic (SG) maps are essential for understanding surface processes and supporting infrastructure planning, but current workflows are labor-intensive and difficult to scale. We introduce EarthScape, an AI-ready multimodal dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Matthew Massey , Nusrat Munia , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Large datasets are most economically trnsmitted via parcel post given the current economics of wide-area networking. This article describes how the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ships terabyte scale datasets both within the US and to Europe and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jim Gray , Wyman Chong , Tom Barclay , Alex Szalay , Jan vandenBerg

Relational databases (DBs) are ideal tools to manage bulky and structured data archives. In particular for Astronomy they can be used to fulfill all the requirements of a complex project, i.e. the management of: documents, software (s/w)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Nicastro , G. Calderone

This evaluate the performance of geospatial image processing using two distinct data storage formats: Zarr and TIFF. Geospatial images, converted to numerous applications like environmental monitoring, urban planning, and disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jaheer Khan , Swarup E , Rakshit Ramesh

Lately, many companies are using Mobile Workforce Management technologies combined with information collected by sensors from mobile devices in order to improve their business processes. Even for small companies, the information that needs…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Alejandro Cortiñas , Miguel R. Luaces , Tirso V. Rodeiro

The Aladin interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS, is a service providing simultaneous access to digitized images of the sky, astronomical catalogues, and databases. The driving motivation is to facilitate direct, visual comparison of…

Geospatial analysis offers large potential for better understanding, modelling and visualizing our natural and artificial ecosystems, using Internet of Things as a pervasive sensing infrastructure. This paper performs a review of research…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Andreas Kamilaris , Frank Ostermann

The Target infrastructure has been specially built as a storage and compute infrastructure for the information systems derived from Astro-WISE. This infrastructure will be used by several applications that collaborate in the area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-06 A. N. Belikov , F. Dijkstra , J. A. Gankema , J. B. A. N. van Hoof , R. Koopman

The Atlasmaker project is using Grid technology, in combination with NVO interoperability, to create new knowledge resources in astronomy. The product is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, scientifically trusted image atlas of the sky,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. Williams , S. G. Djorgovski , M. T. Feldmann , J. C. Jacob

This paper surveys visualization and interaction techniques for geospatial networks from a total of 95 papers. Geospatial networks are graphs where nodes and links can be associated with geographic locations. Examples can include social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sarah Schöttler , Yalong Yang , Hanspeter Pfister , Benjamin Bach

This article describes a data center hosting a web portal for accessing and sharing the output of large, cosmological, hydro-dynamical simulations with a broad scientific community. It also allows users to receive related scientific data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Antonio Ragagnin , Klaus Dolag , Veronica Biffi , Marionne Cadolle Bel , Nicolay J. Hammer , Aliaksei Krukau , Margarita Petkova , Daniel Steinborn

The analysis and an efficient scientific exploration of the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS) represents a major technical challenge. The input data set consists of 3 Terabytes of pixel information, and contains a few billion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. de Carvalho , S. C. Odewahn , R. R. Gal , J. Roden , P. Stolorz , A. Gray

In this paper we demonstrate the TerraByte Client, a software to download user-defined plant datasets from a data portal hosted at Compute Canada. To that end the client offers two key functionalities: (1) It allows the user to get an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Michael A. Beck , Christopher P. Bidinosti , Christopher J. Henry , Manisha Ajmani

We present SciServer, a science platform built and supported by the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science at the Johns Hopkins University. SciServer builds upon and extends the SkyServer system of server-side tools that…

While the Earth observation community has witnessed a surge in high-impact foundation models and global Earth embedding datasets, a significant barrier remains in translating these academic assets into freely accessible tools. This tutorial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yijie Zheng , Weijie Wu , Bingyue Wu , Long Zhao , Guoqing Li , Mikolaj Czerkawski , Konstantin Klemmer

A global site selection for astronomy was performed with 1 km spatial resolution ($\sim$ 1 Giga pixel in size) using long term and up-to-date datasets to classify the entire terrestrial surface on the Earth. Satellite instruments are used…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 N. Aksaker , S. K. Yerli , M. A. Erdoğan , Z. Kurt , K. Kaba , M. Bayazit , C. Yesilyaprak

Despite the remarkable developments achieved by recent 3D generation works, scaling these methods to geographic extents, such as modeling thousands of square kilometers of Earth's surface, remains an open challenge. We address this through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shang Liu , Chenjie Cao , Chaohui Yu , Wen Qian , Jing Wang , Fan Wang

This paper presents EarthView, a comprehensive dataset specifically designed for self-supervision on remote sensing data, intended to enhance deep learning applications on Earth monitoring tasks. The dataset spans 15 tera pixels of global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Diego Velazquez , Pau Rodriguez López , Sergio Alonso , Josep M. Gonfaus , Jordi Gonzalez , Gerardo Richarte , Javier Marin , Yoshua Bengio , Alexandre Lacoste

Earth Observation (EO) mining aims at supporting efficient access and exploration of petabyte-scale space- and airborne remote sensing archives that are currently expanding at rates of terabytes per day. A significant challenge is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Luigi Mascolo , Marco Quartulli , Pietro Guccione , Giovanni Nico , Igor G. Olaizola