The AIPHA Platform

How can you process your geospatial data? With AIPHA you can perform 3D data processing in a very simple way, both by running processing pipelines manually and by automation with the AIPHA API. This section give an introduction to the different approaches.

Manual Processing

The manual processing is performed in three steps

  1. Upload your data

  2. Select your processing pipeline and analyze your data

  3. Download your results

Manual Up- and Download of Data

AIPHA provides two mechanism for up- and downloads. For small data sets you can perform up- and downloads directly in your web browser by using the web filebrowser.

Alternative texti Data up and download by using using web filebrowser

Large datasets can be downloaded or uploaded by using System Operators.

The cloud storage is optimized and intended for high performance data processing. Cloud-storage for high performance computations tends to be about ten times more expensive than long term storage solutions. Please use different solutions for long term storage.

Manual Data Processing

You can perform manual data processing by selecting an operator, parameterize it and start the processing. AIPHA will automatically take care to allocate the instances required for data processing and release unused cloud instances. Typical operators require a single cloud instance for computation. Please note that multiple cloud instances can be started for massive parallel computing by running a single processing pipeline. AIPHA provides you with multiple ready-to-use processing pipelines and operators.

Alternative texti Webinterface to launch operators manually

Monitoring of Data Processing

Each of your tasks can have different states. Pending tasks are waiting for an available cloud instance for computation. Running tasks are asigned to a cloud instance. Completed tasks have finished computations. The resources of completed tasks are freed automatically. You can stop running or pending tasks to free your cloud resources manually with the buttons stop all tasks or by selecting a running task and by clicking stop task. You can also remove all completed task from being monitored by clicking clear completed tasks.

Alternative texti Webinterface to monitor and stop tasks manually

Automation via API

You can further automate data processing or create your own massive parallel cloud processing pipelines by using the AIPHA API.