Cloud computing flexible large area mosaic engine

A system for generating a geospatial mosaic image from a plurality of geospatial images, the system comprising:

• a front-end image processing system coupled in communication with a image storage;
• the front-end image processing system, which includes a first plurality of nodes of a cloud computing infrastructure, configured to:
• define an area of interest as a selected geographic area, wherein the area of interest is divided into geographically indexed tiles;
• retrieve, from an image storage, geospatial images corresponding to the area of interest;
• render browse version images of at least a portion of the geospatial images from the image storage in a map display of a user interface, wherein the browse version images includes first resolution image versions of corresponding geospatial images;
• and
• receive, from a user, via the user interface, a selection of one or more geospatial images for each geographically indexed tile based on the browse version images;
• define a mosaic recipe of the geospatial images based on the selection of the one or more geospatial images;
• a back-end image processing system coupled in communication with the image storage;
• the back-end image processing system, which includes a second plurality of nodes of the cloud computing infrastructure, configured to:
• based on the defined mosaic recipe, retrieve the geospatial images, in a second resolution, from a second resolution image storage, wherein the first resolution is lower than the second resolution, the back-end image processing system including a second plurality of nodes of the cloud computing infrastructure;
• based on receipt of the geospatial images, in strips, from the image storage, queue a plurality of strip operations;
• and
• execute the queue of the plurality of strip operations, on the strips of the geospatial images, in parallel, using the second plurality of nodes of the cloud computing infrastructure, to generate the geospatial mosaic image.