@article{lewis2017the,
author = {Lewis, Adam and Oliver, Simon and Lymburner, Leo and Evans, Ben and Wyborn, Lesley and Mueller, Norman and Raevksi, Gregory and Hooke, Jeremy and Woodcock, Rob and Sixsmith, Joshua and Wu, Wenjun and Tan, Peter and Li, Fuqin and Killough, Brian and Minchin, Stuart and Roberts, Dale and Ayers, Damien and Bala, Biswajit and Dwyer, John and Dekker, Arnold and Dhu, Trevor and Hicks, Andrew and Ip, Alex and Purss, Matt and Richards, Clare and Sagar, Stephen and Trenham, Claire and Wang, Peter and Wang, Lan-Wei},
title = {The Australian Geoscience Data Cube — Foundations and lessons learned},
year = {2017},
month = {December},
abstract = {The Australian Geoscience Data Cube (AGDC) aims to realise the full potential of Earth observation data holdings by addressing the Big Data challenges of volume, velocity, and variety that otherwise limit the usefulness of Earth observation data. There have been several iterations and AGDC version 2 is a major advance on previous work. The foundations and core components of the AGDC are: (1) data preparation, including geometric and radiometric corrections to Earth observation data to produce standardised surface reflectance measurements that support time-series analysis, and collection management systems which track the provenance of each Data Cube product and formalise re-processing decisions; (2) the software environment used to manage and interact with the data; and (3) the supporting high performance computing environment provided by the Australian National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).

A growing number of examples demonstrate that our data cube approach allows analysts to extract rich new information from Earth observation time series, including through new methods that draw on the full spatial and temporal coverage of the Earth observation archives. To enable easy-uptake of the AGDC, and to facilitate future cooperative development, our code is developed under an open-source, Apache License, Version 2.0. This open-source approach is enabling other organisations, including the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS), to explore the use of similar data cubes in developing countries.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/the-australian-geoscience-data-cube-foundations-and-lessons-learned/},
pages = {276-292},
journal = {Remote Sensing of Environment},
volume = {202},
}