Constructor University
EarthServer Datacube Federation Member
About
Constructor University is a private, English-speaking campus university in Germany.
Its aim is to strengthen people and markets with innovative solutions and advanced training programs.
Students from more than 120 nations join the vibrant international community.
The Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems Research Group
innovates on flexible, scalable, federated services for massive multi-dimensional data, often called "datacubes".
A main result is the pioneer Array Database System, rasdaman.
Further, the group leads datacube standardization in OGC and ISO, and contributes critically to the European SDI initiative, INSPIRE.
Datacube Offering
The Constructor University node in EarthServer provides the Earth Datacube Playground showcasing 1-D through 4-D datacubes ("coverages") in various situations. Datacubes available range from global climate models and satellite imagery to localized digital surface models. On these data, the service offers a variety of processing and visualization capabilities. The underlying platform accomplishing the service is rasdaman