Paper Info
Title
Grid-Enabled Ogc Envirorment For Eo Data And Services In Support Of Canada'S Forest Applications
Abstract
System of Agents for Forest Observation Research with Advanced Hierarchies (SAFORAH) is a grid-enabled environment that makes optimum use of distributed data storage facilities. It supports EO data collaboration among various Canadian research organizations and provides ready access to the most current, consistent and reliable forest resource information through various network environments. SAFORAH was built with an extensible data grid network based on the Globus Toolkit and transparently presents the distributed data storage facilities across multiple organizations and government agencies as one single data archive to users to facilitate easy EO data archiving and distribution. Currently, four Canadian Forestry Centres located in Victoria British Columbia, Cornerbrook Newfoundland, Edmonton, Alberta and Laurentian Quebec, and Environment Canada's Canadian Wildlife Service are operationally connected via Canarie to the SAFORAH data grid. The connection to a large petabyte storage facility under development at the University of Victoria (UVic) was also established. SAFORAH has been modified to provide data services based on the OGC standard using NWGISS to support the distribution of comprehensive, integrated and thematic EO data for forest applications. SAFORAH has been used in the EOSD project to support the national monitoring of Canada's forests. This use has demonstrated that SAFORAH is a practical tool for collaborative research to facilitate the sharing of EO data. The extension of SAFORAH to handle OGC requests has enabled the distribution of landcover product tiles from multiple storage sites seamlessly to national and international users. The web address for SAFORAH is www.saforah.org.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423927
IGARSS: 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOLS 1-12: SENSING AND UNDERSTANDING OUR PLANET
Keywords
Field
DocType
SAFORAH, grid, OGC, forest, EO, EOSD
Grid computing,Computer science,Petabyte,Distributed data store,Data grid,Remote sensing,Thematic map,Application software,Data as a service,Grid
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
2
0.45
References 
Authors
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David G. Goodenough171.83
Hao Chen28716.52
Liping Di381198.92
Aimin Guan431.20
Yaxing Wei520217.42
a dyk68518.72
Geordie Hobart7316.44