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View article: Segment Anything Model Can Not Segment Anything: Assessing AI Foundation Model’s Generalizability in Permafrost Mapping
Segment Anything Model Can Not Segment Anything: Assessing AI Foundation Model’s Generalizability in Permafrost Mapping Open
This paper assesses trending AI foundation models, especially emerging computer vision foundation models and their performance in natural landscape feature segmentation. While the term foundation model has quickly garnered interest from th…
View article: Segment Anything Model Can Not Segment Anything: Assessing AI Foundation Model's Generalizability in Permafrost Mapping
Segment Anything Model Can Not Segment Anything: Assessing AI Foundation Model's Generalizability in Permafrost Mapping Open
This paper assesses trending AI foundation models, especially emerging computer vision foundation models and their performance in natural landscape feature segmentation. While the term foundation model has quickly garnered interest from th…
View article: Self-Supervised Masked Digital Elevation Models Encoding for Low-Resource Downstream Tasks
Self-Supervised Masked Digital Elevation Models Encoding for Low-Resource Downstream Tasks Open
The lack of quality labeled data is one of the main bottlenecks for training Deep Learning models. As the task increases in complexity, there is a higher penalty for overfitting and unstable learning. The typical paradigm employed today is…
View article: Research Software Engineers: Career Entry Points and Training Gaps
Research Software Engineers: Career Entry Points and Training Gaps Open
As software has become more essential to research across disciplines, and as the recognition of this fact has grown, the importance of professionalizing the development and maintenance of this software has also increased. The community of …
View article: Creating a Permafrost Discovery Gateway - Providing Researchers and the Public with access to arctic data
Creating a Permafrost Discovery Gateway - Providing Researchers and the Public with access to arctic data Open
Warming climate is causing rapid and significant change to permafrost in the Arctic region. Fortunately a large quantity of satellite data is available for analysis. The goal of the Permafrost Discovery Gateway is to a) enable the creation…
View article: What Does TERRA-REF’s High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community?
What Does TERRA-REF’s High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community? Open
A core objective of the TERRA-REF project was to generate an open-access reference dataset for the evaluation of sensing technologies to study plants under field conditions. The TERRA-REF program deployed a suite of high-resolution, cuttin…
View article: Senior level RSE career paths (with an s)
Senior level RSE career paths (with an s) Open
Over the past nine years there has been growing acceptance of the role of RSEs and the value they bring to projects. We've also talked about different models for where RSEs can fit in institutions, from lone RSEs working with research grou…
View article: Research Software Sustainability: Lessons Learned at NCSA
Research Software Sustainability: Lessons Learned at NCSA Open
This paper discusses why research software is important, and what sustainability means in this context. It then talks about how research software sustainability can be achieved, and what our experiences at NCSA have been using specific exa…
View article: A Vision for the Future Low-Temperature Geochemical Data-scape
A Vision for the Future Low-Temperature Geochemical Data-scape Open
Data sharing benefits the researcher, the scientific community, and most importantly, the public by enabling more impactful analysis of data and greater transparency in scientific research. However, like many other scientists, the low-temp…
View article: Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing on NSF-supported Cyberinfrastructure
Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing on NSF-supported Cyberinfrastructure Open
Significant investments to upgrade and construct large-scale scientific facilities demand commensurate investments in R\&D to design algorithms and computing approaches to enable scientific and engineering breakthroughs in the big data era…
View article: Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies from Manchester's RSDS Group, Illinois' NCSA, and Notre Dame's CRC
Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies from Manchester's RSDS Group, Illinois' NCSA, and Notre Dame's CRC Open
Modern research in the sciences, engineering, humanities, and other fields\ndepends on software, and specifically, research software. Much of this research\nsoftware is developed in universities, by faculty, postdocs, students, and\nstaff.…
View article: Petabytes in Practice: Working with Collections as Data at Scale
Petabytes in Practice: Working with Collections as Data at Scale Open
The emerging transdiscipline of Computational Archival Science (CAS) links frameworks such as Brown Dog and repository software such as Digital Repository At Scale To Invite Computation (DRAS-TIC) to yield an understanding of working with …
View article: Deep Learning for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: A Gateway for Discovery in the Big Data Era
Deep Learning for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: A Gateway for Discovery in the Big Data Era Open
This report provides an overview of recent work that harnesses the Big Data Revolution and Large Scale Computing to address grand computational challenges in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, with a particular emphasis on real-time discovery c…
View article: SC19 Panel - Developing and Managing Research Software in Universities and National Labs
SC19 Panel - Developing and Managing Research Software in Universities and National Labs Open
This set of documents are the slides presented at the panel and the results of audience polls during the panel
View article: Clowder
Clowder Open
Clowder is an open source data management system to support data curation of long tail data and metadata across multiple research domains and diverse data types. Institutions and labs can install and customize their own instance of the fra…
View article: Brown Dog
Brown Dog Open
Brown Dog is a data transformation service for auto-curation of long-tail data. In this digital age, we have more data available for analysis than ever and this trend will only increase. According to most estimates, 70--80% of this data is…
View article: BRACELET: Hierarchical Edge-Cloud Microservice Infrastructure for Scientific Instruments’ Lifetime Connectivity
BRACELET: Hierarchical Edge-Cloud Microservice Infrastructure for Scientific Instruments’ Lifetime Connectivity Open
Recent advances in cyber-infrastructure have enabled digital data sharing and ubiquitous network connectivity between scientific instruments and cloud-based storage infrastructure for uploading, storing, curating, and correlating of large …
View article: The Canoe and the Superpixel: Image Analysis of the Changing Shorelines on Historical Maps of the Great Lakes
The Canoe and the Superpixel: Image Analysis of the Changing Shorelines on Historical Maps of the Great Lakes Open
Local information cannot capture all of the image/scene constraints available for image segmentation.Imposing global constraints such as context and shape priors are known to often improve segmentation results.In this paper we consider two…
View article: Medici 2: a scalable content management system for cultural heritage datasets
Medici 2: a scalable content management system for cultural heritage datasets Open
Digitizing large collections of Cultural Heritage (CH) resources and providing tools for their management, analysis and visualization is critical to CH research. A key element in achieving the above goal is to provide user-friendly softwar…
View article: An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures
An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures Open
Brown Dog is an extensible data cyberinfrastructure, that provides a set of extensible and distributed data conversion and metadata extraction services to enable access and search within unstructured, un-curated and inaccessible research d…
View article: pecan: MAESPA, LPJ-GUESS and Site Groups
pecan: MAESPA, LPJ-GUESS and Site Groups Open
The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) is an integrated ecological bioinformatics toolbox.
View article: pecan: PEcAn 1.4.5 : PRELES + CRUNCEP
pecan: PEcAn 1.4.5 : PRELES + CRUNCEP Open
This release requires an update to the config file in PEcAn web interface. Without this change the web interface will not work. See config.php changes Following are the major new features of this release. Besides these new features many bu…
View article: pecan: PEcAn 1.4.4: Remote execution from web interface
pecan: PEcAn 1.4.4: Remote execution from web interface Open
The major new feature of this release of PEcAn is the ability to launch workflows from the web interface that then run on remote machines (e.g. clusters, cloud services). For this to work you will need to have ssh access to that remote mac…
View article: pecan: MET Process and Brown Dog
pecan: MET Process and Brown Dog Open
PEcAn This version of PEcAn now can use BrownDog. BrownDog will help with the conversion of data from input files to model specific files. This version also allows for conversion of the NARR data. PEcAn WEB allow the user to type the name …