About the WASTAC iVec Integration Project

A project to integrate WASTAC's multi-decade satellite data archive with iVec's immense storage and computing facilities - to solve accessibility challenges and make data in WASTAC's archive easily and readily available to those that need it.  The project provides;

• Ingest low-level satellite data from multiple sources (WA receiving stations and NASA direct broadcast)
• Routinely process data to higher order products and make those available to entitled users
• Catalogue scene and pixel level geospatial metadata to facilitate data search over the web

With approximately 6 years retrospective processing of the multi-Terra-byte archive completed so far, and 60-70 newly acquired datasets per day to process in real-time ongoing,  the searchable metadata catalogue currently stores approximately 142,000 scenes and 330,000,000 geospatially registered tiles, amounts which are forecast to grow by an order or magnitude.

The data search technical design was conceived with the following requirement in mind;

To search for satellite data covering a given point or region of interest, while having a specified level of quality such as the absence of clouds at that point or area.  For example, show me MODIS radiance data between 2004 and 2006 without cloud cover over Geraldton.

Check out our data search and data coverage facilities!

What is WASTAC?

WASTAC is a consortium of state and federal departments and universities that share a common objective of maintaining a reliable, comprehensive and accessible archive of NOAA-AVHRR, MODIS and SeaWiFS satellite data. You can read more about WASTAC here.

WASTAC are the custodians of a continuously growing archive of almost 40 years of satellite data covering the western region of Australia.

What is iVec?

iVec is an intitiative to increase Western Australia's innovative capacity and economic develoment by encouraging and supporting the exploration, evolution and exploitation of advanced computing, large scale storage, high-speed communications and scientific visualisation via grid technologies and e-research services. Read more about iVec here.