Application for ZOO-Project (GSoC 2016)

Bringing pyModis to the web through ZOO-Project

Student: Chingchai Humhong (Thailand)

Mentors: Luca Delucchi (Italy) and Gérald Fenoy (France)

Wiki: ZOO Wiki

An idea which can be implemented for the future, based on this initial work,
include the creation of new services by combining pyModis, GRASS, OTB and SAGA-GIS services.

Learn more in GitHub

About ZOO-pyModis

Brief description of the idea

The pyModis project has been developed and used to work with MODIS data, it provides wxPython user interfaces which are able to download and process data using pyModis scripts. pyModis depends on a desktop graphical user interface which does not make it directly usable from a web application. The idea of this GSoC proposal is to bring pyModis to the web by publishing Python Web Processing Services using the ZOO-Project technology accessible through a minimal web application.

The state of the project as it was BEFORE your GSoC

Currently pyModis is able to run on a local computer but cannot be directly remotely invoked on-demand. ZOO-Project is able to handle services implemented in the Python language but do not offer any pyModis capabilities.

The addition that your project brought to the software

By providing pyModis as a service through ZOO-Project, capabilities of ZOO-Project will be increased, specially capabilities of python in ZOO-Project will be exposed. As a sample web service from this, we develop a web service to download, mosaic and convert modis data from NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) (http://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/).
Then, it could be useful to whoever that want to download data, mosaic images and convert modis data from image to another image file without GIS and Remote Sensing knowledge.