Title
A Cluster-Based Partition Method of Remote Sensing Data for Efficient Distributed Image Processing
Abstract
Data stream partitioning is a fundamental and important mechanism for distributed systems. However, use of an inappropriate partition scheme may generate a data skew problem, which can influence the execution efficiency of many application tasks. Processing of skewed partitions usually takes a longer time, need more computational resources to complete the task and can even become a performance bottleneck. To solve such data skew issues, this paper proposes a novel partition method to divide on demand the image tiles uniformly into partitions. The partitioning problem is then transformed into a uniform and compact clustering problem whereby the image tiles are regarded as image pixels without spectrum and texture information. First, the equal area conversion principle was used to select the seed points of the partitions and then the image tiles were aggregated in an image layout, thus achieving an initial partition scheme. Second, the image tiles of the initial partition were finely adjusted in the vertical and horizontal directions in separate steps to achieve a uniform distribution among the partitions. Two traditional partition methods were adopted to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method in terms of the image segmentation testing, data shuffle testing, and image clipping testing. The results demonstrated that the proposed partition method solved the data skew problem observed in the hash partition method. In addition, this method is designed specifically for processing of image tiles and makes the related processing operations for large-scale images faster and more efficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/rs14194964
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
partition method, image processing, distributed computation, Apache Spark, digital disaster reduction
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
19
2072-4292
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Wang106.42
Bo Yu2306.46
Fang Chen32012.20
Congrong Li400.34
Bin Li569450.02
Ning Wang623087.46