Title
Parallel Morphological/Neural Classification of Remote Sensing Images Using Fully Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Commodity Clusters
Abstract
The wealth spatial and spectral information available from last-generation Earth observation instruments has introduced extremely high computational requirements in many applications. Most currently available parallel techniques treat remotely sensed data not as images, but as unordered listings of spectral measurements with no spatial arrangement. In thematic classification applications, however, the integration of spatial and spectral information can be greatly beneficial. Although such integrated approaches can be efficiently mapped in homogeneous commodity clusters, low-cost heterogeneous networks of computers (HNOCs) have soon become a standard tool of choice in Earth and planetary missions. In this paper, we develop a new morphological/neural parallel algorithm for commodity cluster-based analysis of high-dimensional remotely sensed image data sets. The algorithms accuracy and parallel performance are tested (in the context of a real precision agriculture application) using two parallel platforms: a fully heterogeneous cluster made up of 16 workstations at University of Maryland, and a massively parallel Beowulf cluster at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311867
Barcelona
Keywords
Field
DocType
aerospace computing,image processing,remote sensing,workstation clusters,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,heterogeneous commodity clusters,high computational requirements,homogeneous commodity clusters,last-generation Earth observation instruments,low-cost heterogeneous computer networks,morphological parallel algorithm,neural classification,neural parallel algorithm,parallel Beowulf cluster,parallel morphological,remote sensing images,remotely sensed data,spatial information,spectral information,spectral measurements,thematic classification applications,workstations clusters
Spatial analysis,Parallel algorithm,Computer science,Massively parallel,Parallel computing,Image processing,Workstation,Heterogeneous cluster,Earth observation,Heterogeneous network
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1552-5244 E-ISBN : 1-4244-0328-6
1-4244-0328-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Plaza156158.04
Rosa M. Pérez2326.18
Antonio Plaza33475262.63
pablo martinez461758.77
David Valencia519416.07