Industry Choking'The imaging industry is choking on data volumes. We can produce far more than we can use', said Stuart Nixon, the chief executive of ER Mapper. Nixon was speaking at an imagery workshop organised by the Spatial Sciences Institute, the Australian Spatial Information Business Association and the West Australian Land Information System in Perth on 28 November. He said that the industry has a need for 5 cm resolution data over urban regions, and 25 cm in the bush, updated on a monthly cycle. Most of the technology required to do this already exists, he told the seminar. The weak point is our inability to store the massive amounts of data without hugely expensive hardware. However, he said that there is plenty of reason for optimism. Disk drives capable of storing 2 Terabyte of data will soon be available for desktop computers. Also, grid computing will make processing data much easier. |
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