Satellite image processing on computational grids

Remote sensing image processing is a very demanding procedure in terms of data manipulation and computing power. Grid computing is a possible solution when the required computing performance or data sharing is not available at the user's site. Two scenarios of using Service Grids were analyzed in our papers [17, 18]. This paper discusses another scenario of using Computational Grids. According to this scenario a prototype code for satellite image classification was designed, implemented and tested.

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