pipsCloud: High performance cloud computing for remote sensing big data management and processing.

Massive, large-region coverage, multi-temporal, multi-spectral remote sensing (RS) datasets are employed widely due to the increasing requirements for accurate and up-to-date information about resources and the environment for regional and global monitoring. In general, RS data processing involves a complex multi-stage processing sequence, which comprises several independent processing steps according to the type of RS application. RS data processing for regional environmental and disaster monitoring is recognized as being computationally intensive and data intensive.