Journal of Geo-information Science ›› 2016, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 664-672.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2016.00664

Special Issue: 地理大数据

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Real-time Rendering and Interactive Visualization of Remote Sensing Big Data

ZHOU Ya'nan1(), ZHAO Wei2, FAN Ya'nan3   

  1. 1. School of Earth Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
    2. Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
    3. Tianjin Institute of Surveying and Mapping, No.9 Changling Road, Tianjin 300381
  • Received:2015-12-15 Revised:2016-02-01 Online:2016-05-10 Published:2016-05-10

Abstract:

Data visualization is an important service in remote sensing applications. To address the problems that it is difficult for the static pre-built map tile service to meet the requirements of professional data view, map configuration, spatial analysis and other applications, this paper presented a solution architecture for the real-time rendering and interactive visualization of remote sensing big data. Firstly, on the rendering nodes, a rendering-tile structure for image was constructed to improve the reading speed of remote sensing images. Secondly, on the visualization servers, a data-computing load balancing strategy was proposed to optimize the rendering efficiency of map tiles. Thirdly, a set of service interfaces for the interactive visualization was designed for the front ends of services. Compared with the traditional technology, this solution can not only achieve the real-time rendering and the interactive visualization of remote sensing data, but also obtain an equivalent service performance to the pre-built tile map service. Finally, based on the above solutions, an interactive visualization prototype system of remote sensing data was developed and was applied into the demonstrations of the real-time viewing of remote sensing images, the visualized computing and the visualized analysis.

Key words: RS big data, WMTS, real-time rendering, interactive visualization