Study on the Efficient Use of Satellite Image Data Analysis System

Tokyo University of Information Sciences receives MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data, one of the sensors equipped by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, and researches of the analysis on change of environment as part of the academic frontier project. For the information infrastructure of this frontier research, we are developing a satellite image data analysis system to support of web system, a parallel distributed system configuration using multiple PC clusters, database for MODIS data to open the research results and MODIS data for public use. This paper presents the overview of satellite data analysis system and new feature which are the composite of multiple satellite data, and LSM with virtualization of storage system for satellite data, scheduling for multiple cluster nodes and performance evaluation.