Amazon rainforest visualization/classification by orbiting radar, enabled by supercomputers (ARVORES)

The ARVORES project is a specific science task (part of a larger supercomputing effort) whose purpose is to develop SAR resources based on JERS-1 multi-season coverage of the Amazon rainforest using available state of the art computing technology. Because of the basin-wide coverage of this data set, in addition to providing the immediate science goals of landcover classification, it will also serve as a foundation which present and future data sets may be overlain and compared to. In addition, it is the goal of this project to use the science requirements related to the study of the Amazon region to guide the development of a flexible, large-scale computing environment for addressing SAR specific tasks.