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Hello everyone,<BR>
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First, greetings from Costa Rica. Recently we have been working on areal imaging and we need to implement a web-mapping service. This service is oriented to a highly variable range of users, including academia and any different individuals/organizations.<BR>
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Apart from vectorial data, we need to add collections of raster images. Last four years NASA has been giving us help in aereal imaging, and we count up to 16.000 raster photos (master, hyperspectral, multispectral) of about 11Km X 11Km each in extension.<BR>
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It is very important for us to know possible limitations, as well as get suggestions about a hardware platform that can give a decent performance. Another important consideration is that users should have the possibility to include their data and produce customized maps. This service is expected to grow to a middle/high demand into six to twelve months approximately.<BR>
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We are in the process of buying hardware, and we want to maximize efficiency and as always, keep cost controlled. The objective is to obtain an estimate of the server configuration, specially in terms of CPU, memory and HD. Another question would be how to manage image navigation in terms of preprocessing and file size.<BR>
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Any ideas on this?<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Santiago Núñez Corrales<BR>
Researcher<BR>
National Center for High Technology<BR>
Costa Rica<BR>
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