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Chapter 8
Cloud-enabling GEOSS
Clearinghouse
Kai Liu, Douglas Nebert, Qunying Huang,
Jizhe Xia, and Zhenlong Li
GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)
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Clearinghouse
(CLH) is a comprehensive data management system, and is the core
component of GEOSS that provides harvesting and searching capabilities
for the geospatial components and services registered in the GEOSS. This
chapter introduces how to cloud-enable CLH with the deployment and
congurations needed for running the CLH in Amazon EC2 cloud service.
8.1 GEOSS CLEARINGHOUSE:
BACKGROUND AND CHALLENGES
8.1.1 Background
A variety of Earth Observation (EO) systems monitor the ...