Cyber infrastructure for Community Remote Sensing

Community Remote Sensing (CRS) is an emerging field where information is collected about the environment by the general public and then integrated into collections to provide a holistic view of the environment with local details. We argue the need for a common architecture for the cyber-infrastructure that will be necessary to cater to the needs of Community Remote Sensing systems. We identify the challenges that such a cyber infrastructure (CRS-CI) has to meet and also proposed five principles as solutions to meet these challenges. Finally, we also describe the integrated Rule Oriented Data System, a data grid middleware that is built upon these principles which provides an ideal and exemplar implementation for CRS-CI.