Tiled Image Archival and Distribution for Seafloor and Terrestrial Imagery

Abstract

The Navy and other Department of Defense activities collect and archive large amounts of imagery of the Earth's seafloor and terrestrial surfaces for distribution to users in the tactical, intelligence, or scientific communities. This imagery is high resolution and collections can be quite large; the compressed 1 meter per pixel imagery of the U.S. is approximately 3 terabytes. Storing the high-resolution imagery as flat files on a hard drive or in a database is problematic because the system must perform time-consuming loading, decoding, and post-processing of large numbers of images for every request by a user. The tile archival and distribution system developed by the Naval Research Laboratory's Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy Branch of its Marine Geosciences Division solves these problems and provides a sophisticated and comprehensive method of imagery management.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA525014

Entities

People

  • E. Ioup
  • F. Mccreedy
  • J. Sample

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Decoding
  • Department Of Defense
  • Earth Sciences
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Geographic Regions
  • High Resolution
  • Image Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Load Monitoring
  • Map Projection
  • Maps
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Application Software
  • Patent Applications
  • Seabed
  • Web Browsers

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