Distributed GIS Project

Our main focus is the creation of standards-based software for managing the storage, searching, processing and remote accessing of large distributed online archives of geospatial data, particularly from earth observation systems such as GMS-5 and NOAA satellites.

The project is targeting environmental, agricultural, landcare and defence applications in Australia, with the goal of enabling new or improved applications by providing transparent access to distributed online archives of satellite imagery and other geospatial data.

Projects

Demonstrations

• MPEG movies of geostationary satellite data

Technical Reports

1. DHPC-001: Distributed GIS: Projects Concepts Discussion Document, DHPC Project Team.
2. DHPC-003: Geographic Information Systems Applications on an ATM-Based Distributed High Performance Computing System, K.A.Hawick, H.A.James, K.J.Maciunas, F.A.Vaughan, A.L.Wendelborn, M.Buchhorn, M.Rezny, S.R.Taylor and M.D.Wilson, Proc. of High Performance Computing and Networks (HPCN) Europe '97, April 1997.
3. DHPC-004: Geostationary-Satellite Imagery Applications on Distributed, High-Performance Computing, K.A.Hawick, H.A.James, K.J.Maciunas, F.A.Vaughan, A.L.Wendelborn, M.Buchhorn, M.Rezny, S.R.Taylor and M.D.Wilson, Proc. of High Performance Computing (HPC) Asia '97, April 1997.
4. DHPC-009: Distributed High-Performance Computation for Remote Sensing, K.A. Hawick and H.A. James, Proc. of Supercomputing '97, November 1997.
5. DHPC-018: A Web-based Interface for On-Demand Processing of Satellite Imagery Archives, H.A. James and K.A. Hawick, Proc. of the Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC) '98, February 1998.
6. DHPC-035: Kriging Interpolation on High-Performance Computers, K.E. Kerry and K.A. Hawick, Proc. of High-Performance Computing and Networks (HPCN) '98, April 1998.
7. DHPC-037: Web-Based Access to Distributed High-Performance Geographic Information Systems for Decision Support, P.D. Coddington, K.A. Hawick and H.A. James, Proc. of Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS) '99, January 1999.
8. DHPC-043: Interactive Viewing of 3D Terrain Models using VRML, Alvin Leung and Paul Coddington, Proc. of Asia Pacific Web (APWeb) '98, Sept 1998.
9. DHPC-047: Implementation of a Geospatial Imagery Digital Library using Java and CORBA, P.D. Coddington, K.A. Hawick, K.E. Kerry, J.A. Mathew, A.J. Silis, D.L. Webb, P.J. Whitbread, C.G. Irving, M.W. Grigg, R. Jana, K. Tang, Proc. of Technologies of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS) Asia '98, Sept 1998.
10. DHPC-071: Interfacing to On-line Geospatial Imagery Archives, P.D. Coddington, M.W. Grigg, S.J. Del Fabbro, K.A. Hawick, S.P. James, E.H.S. Lo, A.K. Lui, K.D. Mason and M.J. Owen, Proc. of Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Assoc. Conf. (AURISA'99), Leura, NSW, November 1999.
11. DHPC-108: Distributed Frameworks and Parallel Algorithms for Processing Large-Scale Geographic Data, K.A. Hawick, P.D. Coddington and H.A. James, Parallel Computing 10, 1297 (2003).

For more information, contact Paul Coddington.