Development of multidimensional analysis of remote sensing (MARS) software

Abstract

A new software have been developed for multidimensional analysis for remote sensing application. A new data storage structure named “mdd” for storing long time series remotely sensed data with spatial, temporal and spectral dimensions was induced as well as. Five data formats were included within the multidimensional data storage, which were TSB, TSP, TIB, TIP and TIS. MARS can be used for building multidimensional datasets and extracting information from MDD data file for time-series analysis. This paper introduced the main functions of MARS software by using MODIS long time series data as an example. MARS have the potential on analyzing long time satellite datasets.