Workflow-based Remote-Sensing Image Processing Application in ImageGrid

Remote-sensing image processing applications demand large-scale, collaborative processing and storage capabilities. Computational grid can provide abundant powerful computational resources with sharing and cooperation in grid environment. This paper gives an introduction to a collaborative processing mechanism based on workflow technology implemented in ImageGrid. The main idea is to encapsulate all parallel algorithms of remote-sensing image processing into grid services and recombine them with grid workflow to satisfy more and more complex remote-sensing image processing applications. In particular, we describe the architecture of the workflow-based grid system and the processing flow. We also give out the algorithm classification and an example of remote-sensing image processing grid application.