“iVEC is increasing Western Australia’s innovative capacity and economic development by encouraging and supporting the exploration, evolution and exploitation of advanced computing, large-scale storage, high- speed communications and scientific visualisation via grid technologies and eResearch services”

The iVEC Partnership

Remote Sensing Case Study Problem How do you discover how the vegetation over a particular region of WA has altered over the past 10 years as a result of climate change? Old Solution: Spend 6 months trying to find the right tapes from several Perth locations and then process the data to produce a time series of images (assuming you can find the right hardware to read the tapes!) iVEC’s Solution: Simply use the web form at iVEC that is connected to the petabyte data store, which will return the time series of images within seconds