Using Microservices for Rapid Creation of Remote Sensing Products

Abstract

Driven by the demands of various sensing data products, remote sensing software systems have increasingly been developed and applied to a wide range of fields. Due to the legacy monolithic product line, we used to satisfy the requirements on a project-by-project basis, only with reuse of some fundamental source codes and tools. By employing microservices to refactor our product line, we are now able to follow a divide-and-conquer strategy to maximize the reusability of component business capacities and create satellite remote sensing products at a much faster pace. This paper mainly introduces our microservice-oriented product line, and the data-analytics-visualization (DAV) pattern for logically organizing and managing relevant microservices of different products. In particular, two projects (namely archaeological detection and cultural heritage protection & urban planning and land use) are used to demonstrate how we prevent to develop thematic products from scratch.