Astria Backend Mars Image Service

About this technology

Overview

We developed a new backend service comprising two micro-services which are exposed to remote web clients using standard secure web protocols. These services integrate with mission authentication and cloud infrastructure to securely deliver image data on an as-needed basis to mission users for science planning operations. The Mars image tile service provides access to potentially high-resolution imagery by breaking up monolithic images into a hierarchy of tiles. Only the tiles necessary for a particular view are sent to the client, optimizing use of bandwidth and end-user machine resources. The Mars image sample service provides access to the numeric data within images at specific requested pixel addresses. That facilitates end-user workflows to interrogate image data without requiring large images to be sent in full, also optimizing use of bandwidth and end-user machine resources.