GeoCubes Finland - A Unified Approach for Managing Multi-resolution Raster Geodata in a National Geospatial Research Infrastructure

Abstract

Providers of geospatial data are facing the challenge of di-verse user needs when delivering their products to different user groups. Academic researchers represent a user group with quite specific requirements, like good support for anal-ysis and high-performance computing. A national infrastruc-ture providing both geospatial data and powerful geocompu-ting facilities for research use is being developed in Finland. The part of the infrastructure described in this paper focuses on the management, storage and efficient delivery of raster-formatted geospatial data by applying the concept of datacube.