“iVEC is increasing Western Australia’s innovative capacity and economic development 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

eResearch services”

The iVEC Partnership

Remote Sensing Case Study

• Problem

How do you discover how the vegetation over a particular region

of WA has altered over the past 10 years as a result of climate

change?

• Old Solution:

Spend 6 months trying to find the right tapes from several Perth

locations and then process the data to produce a time series of

images (assuming you can find the right hardware to read the

tapes!)

• iVEC’s Solution:

Simply use the web form at iVEC that is connected to the petabyte

data store, which will return the time series of images within

seconds