RAPTOR: rapid analysis, processing and transformation from online repositories

Information repositories are being constructed to manage the increasing volumes of Imagery being collected. In addition to only storing and indexing this information users will want to process the information efficiently to generate new information or new ways of viewing the information. this paper describes the development of a linkage between an experimental Image Management System and an exploitation environment provided by the Java Advanced Imaging toolkit. An application of this linkage is described that delivers a dynamic image mosaic capability of imagery sourced from the underlying repository. The application is delivered by developing a server process that communicates with a map display client via Java Remote Method Invocation