Post-Disaster Image Processing for Damage Analysis Using GENESI-DR, WPS, and Grid Computing

The goal of the two year Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations-Digital Repositories (GENESI-DR) project was to build an open and seamless access service to Earth science digital repositories for European and world-wide science users. In order to showcase GENESI-DR, one of the developed technology demonstrators focused on fast search, discovery, and access to remotely sensed imagery in the context of post-disaster building damage assessment. This paper describes the scenario and implementation details of the technology demonstrator, which was developed to support post-disaster damage assessment analyst activities. Once a disaster alert has been issued, response time is critical to providing relevant damage information to analysts and/or stakeholders. The presented technology demonstrator validates the GENESI-DR project data search, discovery and security infrastructure and integrates the rapid urban area mapping and the near real-time orthorectification web processing services to support a post-disaster damage needs assessment analysis scenario. It also demonstrates how the GENESI-DR SOA can be linked to web processing services that access grid computing resources for fast image processing and use secure communication to ensure confidentiality of information.

BIELSKI Conrad;  GENTILINI Simone;  PAPPALARDO Marco; 

2011-07-06

MDPI

JRC61369

http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/6/1234/,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC61369,   

10.3390/rs3061234,