About the WASTAC iVec Integration Portal

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.

What is the WASTAC iVec Integration Project?

A project to integrate WASTAC's satellite data archive with iVec's 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 will;

• catalogue scene metadata, to facilitate scene based search over the web
• routinely produce data products and make those available to entitled users
• spatially index product and scene data to allow seach based on scene quality parameters