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View article: Introduction to Big Earth Data Applications
Introduction to Big Earth Data Applications Open
Climate and weather modeling generate enormous volumes that make iterative analysis challenging, spurring the development of new ways to work with the data. At the same time in the Earth observation area, technological advances are enablin…
View article: Introduction to Analysis Methods for Big Earth Data
Introduction to Analysis Methods for Big Earth Data Open
Big Earth Data are too big to be tractable to simple data inspection. Thus, they typically require models to make sense of all the data. Useful models for Big Earth Data may be physical, statistical, or machine-learning based. While physic…
View article: Future of Big Earth Data Analytics
Future of Big Earth Data Analytics Open
The state of the art of Big Earth Data Analytics can be expected to evolve rapidly in the coming years. The forces driving evolution come from both growth in the data and advancements in the field of data analytics. In the data area, advan…
View article: Benchmark Comparison of Cloud Analytics Methods Applied to Earth Observations
Benchmark Comparison of Cloud Analytics Methods Applied to Earth Observations Open
Cloud computing has the potential to bring high performance computing capabilities to the average science researcher. However, in order to take full advantage of cloud capabilities, the science data used in the analysis must often be reorg…
View article: Front Matter
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View article: IEEE App
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its antecedent form.
View article: Investigating Different Data-Traceability Approaches to Prevent Data Swamps [Perspectives]
Investigating Different Data-Traceability Approaches to Prevent Data Swamps [Perspectives] Open
Science users typically obtain data from authoritative or trusted sources referred to as repositories . An authoritative source is defined as an entity that is approved by a legal entity to develop or manage data for a specific purpose [4]…
View article: NASA Open-Source Science Initiative: Transform to OPen Science (TOPS)
NASA Open-Source Science Initiative: Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) Open
The Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) 5-year initiative will act as a catalyst to jump-start a suite of coordinated activities designed to rapidly transform science.
View article: TOPS: Transform to OPen Science
TOPS: Transform to OPen Science Open
Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) project, part of NASA's Open Source Science Initiative, will coordinate efforts designed to rapidly transform agencies, organizations, and communities to open science. This is the initial public talk on the…
View article: Improving Discovery and Use of NASA’s Earth Observation Data Through Metadata Quality Assessments
Improving Discovery and Use of NASA’s Earth Observation Data Through Metadata Quality Assessments Open
High quality descriptive metadata is essential to enabling the effective discovery of Earth observation data to a growing number of diverse users. In this paper, we define a framework to assess the quality of NASA’s Earth observation metad…
View article: Data Systems to Enable Open Science: The Joint ESA-NASA Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform’s Data Ecosystem
Data Systems to Enable Open Science: The Joint ESA-NASA Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform’s Data Ecosystem Open
<p>The scientific method within the Earth sciences is rapidly evolving. Ever increasing volumes require new methods for processing and understanding data while an almost 60 year Earth observation record makes more data-intensive retr…
View article: The Joint ESA-NASA Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform: Next-Generation Collaboration Tool for Scientific Algorithms and Datasets
The Joint ESA-NASA Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform: Next-Generation Collaboration Tool for Scientific Algorithms and Datasets Open
The ESA-NASA Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) is a platform designed to meet the need of the international scientific community to collaborate on the generation and analysis of increasingly massive datasets from space-b…
View article: Connecting Data with Data Usage: a Graph Approach
Connecting Data with Data Usage: a Graph Approach Open
Connecting Data with Data Usage: a Graph Approach. This presentation was given at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting held in Bethesda, MD in January 2020.
View article: 2020 ESIP Summer Meeting Highlights
2020 ESIP Summer Meeting Highlights Open
This presentation, originally given during a webinar on August 13th, 2020, provides an overview of plenary and breakout sessions from the 2020 Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting held online (July 14th-24th, 2020).
View article: Federated Cloud Challenges in NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (Why So Difficult?)
Federated Cloud Challenges in NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (Why So Difficult?) Open
NASA is presented with a number of opportunities and challenges in federating its Earth Science Data Systems in the burgeoning world of cloud computing. Cloud hosting of Earth Science data provides a new way of bringing data together, at l…
View article: End-to-End Solution for Data Customization with NASA's Earthdata Search
End-to-End Solution for Data Customization with NASA's Earthdata Search Open
The goal of NASA's Earthdata Search End-to-End Services workflow is to take the pain and headache out of searching for data and getting that data back in a format that is usable with only that data that is relevant for you. For too long sc…
View article: Advanced Analytics and Big Earth Data
Advanced Analytics and Big Earth Data Open
NASA's Earth Science Data Systems process, archive and distribute petabytes of Earth Observation data to a variety of end users. These end users will face dramatically increased data size in the near future, bringing about new challenges a…
View article: Generalizing a Data Analysis Pipeline in the Cloud to Handle Diverse Use Cases in NASA's EOSDIS
Generalizing a Data Analysis Pipeline in the Cloud to Handle Diverse Use Cases in NASA's EOSDIS Open
NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is tasked with archiving and distributing Earth Observation data across a range of disciplines, including atmospheric science, oceanography, land processes, natural hazards…
View article: How to Cloud for Earth Scientists: An Introduction
How to Cloud for Earth Scientists: An Introduction Open
This presentation is a tutorial on getting started with cloud computing for the purposes of Earth Observation datasets. We first discuss some of the main advantages that cloud computing can provide for the Earth scientist: copious processi…
View article: Earthdata Cloud Analytics Project
Earthdata Cloud Analytics Project Open
This presentation describes a nascent project in NASA to develop a framework to support end-user analytics of NASA's Earth science data in the cloud. The chief benefit of migrating EOSDIS (Earth Observation System Data and Information Syst…
View article: Evaluating the Open Source Data Containers for Handling Big Geospatial Raster Data
Evaluating the Open Source Data Containers for Handling Big Geospatial Raster Data Open
Big geospatial raster data pose a grand challenge to data management technologies for effective big data query and processing. To address these challenges, various big data container solutions have been developed or enhanced to facilitate …
View article: Recommendations to Improve Downloads of Large Earth Observation Data
Recommendations to Improve Downloads of Large Earth Observation Data Open
With the volume of Earth observation data expanding rapidly, cloud computing is quickly changing the way these data are processed, analyzed, and visualized. Collocating freely available Earth observation data on a cloud computing infrastru…
View article: agu-poster-2017-wcs-v4.pdf
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NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is evolving to expose data using standards based geospatial web services, e.g. Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Mapping Service (WMS). There is a need for fusion of services…
View article: Re-Organizing Earth Observation Data Storage to Support Temporal Analysis of Big Data
Re-Organizing Earth Observation Data Storage to Support Temporal Analysis of Big Data Open
The Earth Observing System Data and Information System archives many datasets that are critical to understanding long-term variations in Earth science properties. Thus, some of these are large, multi-decadal datasets. Yet the challenge in …
View article: Web Coverage Service Challenges for NASA's Earth Science Data
Web Coverage Service Challenges for NASA's Earth Science Data Open
In an effort to ensure that data in NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is available to a wide variety of users through the tools of their choice, NASA continues to focus on exposing data and services using s…
View article: Archive Management of NASA Earth Observation Data to Support Cloud Analysis
Archive Management of NASA Earth Observation Data to Support Cloud Analysis Open
NASA collects, processes and distributes petabytes of Earth Observation (EO) data from satellites, aircraft, in situ instruments and model output, with an order of magnitude increase expected by 2024. Cloud-based web object storage (WOS) o…
View article: NASA Update for Unidata Stratcomm
NASA Update for Unidata Stratcomm Open
The NASA representative to the Unidata Strategic Committee presented a semiannual update on NASAs work with and use of Unidata technologies. The talk updated Unidata on the program of cloud computing prototypes underway for the Earth Obser…
View article: Big Data in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System
Big Data in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Open
Approaches that are being pursued for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data system to address the challenges of Big Data were presented to the NASA Big Data Task Force. Cloud prototypes are underway to tackle…