Despite the computing power growth of the cloud-based platforms providing the opportunity to process the big amounts of remote sensing data, there is still a need to process and store some kinds of data locally. During the last several years, scientists have been interested in makings to make the popular open-source GIS application QGIS and the most popular cloud-based platform Google Earth Engine (GEE) friends. However, today it is not comfortable to use different processing platforms because of their data format differences or some long converting data manipulations. Some platforms suggest their cloud-based storage services use, but some restrictions include limited storage space, upload/download speed limitations, or data format differences. This research uses the GEE as a well-designed platform with often updated remote sensing data storage, processing tools, and algorithms for interdisciplinary research using the cloud and desktop data processing opportunities. The main idea is to create a well-designed infrastructure that can be more flexible than separately used cloud and desktop platforms. An integrated cloud-desktop processing infrastructure is based on GEE cloud performance via the Python API, QGIS as a powerful desktop GIS software, and PostgreSQL with PostGIS extension to store and analyze the results of cloud-desktop processing of remote sensing data locally by database management system (DBMS). Integration of the cloud-desktop processing has allowed for increasing the data processing speed, ensuring the operational usage of the representative satellite observation data, and processing long observation series without using local capacities without needs.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Research on Geotechnical Engineering, Remote Sensing, Geophysics and Earthquake Seismology (MedGU 2021)
Pages279-281
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
EventMediterranean Geosciences Union Annual Meeting 2021 - Стамбул, Turkey
Duration: 25 Nov 202128 Nov 2021
https://www.medgu.org/2021/

Publication series

NameAdvances in Science, Technology and Innovation
PublisherSpringer Nature
ISSN (Print)2522-8714

Conference

ConferenceMediterranean Geosciences Union Annual Meeting 2021
Abbreviated titleMedGU-21
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityСтамбул
Period25/11/2128/11/21
Internet address

    Research areas

  • GIS, Google Earth Engine, Remote sensing

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