Astronomical Image Data Analysis in the Cloud

Abstract

Earth sciences and space exploration instrument sensors are getting improved with each iteration providing us with bigger and more detailed sets of data. Though current available archiving and processing mechanisms are able to cope with current rates, forecasted enormous rates of data to be transmitted on a daily basis by each of the different instruments to be available on the near future make imperative to design mechanisms to handle, process, archive and search through the datasets as well as tools that lead to efficient data triage.