A Virtual Telescope for Global Monitoring of Earth Surface Changes
January 1, 2011CalTech Keck Institute of Space Sciences Computer Science, 2010-11
Liaison(s): Dr. Sebastien Leprince, Francois Ayoub
Advisor(s): Michael Erlinger
Students(s): Sonja Bohr (PM), Emma Carlson, Singer Ma, Julia Matsieva
COSI-Corr (Co-registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation) is a software developed at CalTech that estimates ground displacements using multi-temporal satellite images. Among other uses, correlating such images enables geologists to locate earthquake fault ruptures soon after an event. Unfortunately, analysis of a few pairs of images may take on the order of several hours. To improve this response time, our project is to propose a framework that allows the migration of COSI-Corr to a multitude of distributed computing environments.