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Peng Liu
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100094, P. R. China
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Tao Yuan
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100094, P. R. China
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Yan Ma
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100094, P. R. China
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Lizhe Wang
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100094, P. R. China
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Dingsheng Liu
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100094, P. R. China
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Shasha Yue
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100094, P. R. China
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Joanna KoĆodziej
Institute of Computer Science
Cracow University of Technology
Warszawska 24
31-155 Cracow, Poland
Parallel Processing of Massive Remote Sensing Images in a GPU Architecture
keywords: GPU, remote sensing image processing, data intensive computing
Profiting from the development of space remote sensing technology, the amount of remote sensing image data obtained by satellite is increasing dramatically; however, how to deal with these data quickly and efficiently has turned out to be a great computational challenge. With the rapid development of general-purpose GPU computing technology, researchers improved remote sensing applications based on GPU, and obtained good speedup. However, the current GPU parallel processes are not well adapted to the remote sensing image processing; furthermore, they have data loading, storage, and I/O problems. To solve these bottlenecks, this paper proposes three corresponding optimization strategies, and their effectiveness is confirmed by further experiments.
reference: Vol. 33, 2014, No. 1, pp. 197–217