American Geophysical Union
Fall Meeting
Dec. 14-18, 2015
San Francisco, CA, USA

Organizers:
Dawn Wright (Esri & OrSt)
Mike Little, NASA
Nancy Hoebelheinrich (Knowledge Motifs LLC)
Lesley Wyborn (Australian National U.)
David Gallaher (U. Colorado-Boulder)


Recent developments in GIS, Cloud Computing, Scientific Databases and High-performance Computing can enable the Earth and Space Sciences communities to accelerate greatly the modeling, handling, analysis and visualization of large, multi-component data sets. Researchers can minimize the restrictions imposed by small data sets and slow computing capacity. The testing, evaluation and demonstration programs of both ESIP and EarthCube show promise in creating credibility and acceptance.

GIS tools have demonstrated the ability to support analysis and computing, as well as visualization, and scaling up using cloud-computing services. Powerful new capabilities involving NoSQL, clustered GPU processing, solid-state memory architectures, and database compression techniques can be exploited to accelerate data access.

The recent US Presidential announcement of the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) recognizes the demand for substantially greater computing performance to meet the growing needs of these communities. Quantum Computing is starting to find value in Earth Science. However, far more work is needed to infuse these capabilities into the science part of our community. Technologies need independent testing to gain recognition and credibility. Scientific investigators and their teams need experience to gain familiarity with them. But most importantly, working examples of the application of these technologies are perhaps the single most important contributor to embedding them into the scientists' work environments. Recent work in China, India, Europe as well as the United States are beginning to gain recognition for these technologies among scientists, policy makers and planners, as well as demonstrating value to local and regional climate, land use and hydrology application users.

Invited Oral Presenters:
  • Douglas Fils, Consortium for Ocean Leadership
  • Sara Graves, Director, Information Technology and Systems Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Brian Knosp, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Praveen Kumar, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director, Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes
  • Carol Song, Director of Scientific Solutions, ITaP Research Computing, Purdue University
  • David Tarboton, Hydrology Research Group, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University
  • William Teng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET Systems)
  • Dean Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Keywords: Cyberinfrastructure; Geospatial; Emerging informatics technologies; Big Data; Earth observations; GIScience.

Main Sponsor: Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group

Related Sponsoring Sections: Atmospheric Sciences (A), Global Environmental Change (GC), Ocean Sciences (OS), Tectonophysics (T)

Posters | Papers (Oral) | Contacts

IN43B Poster Session Lineup

  • Towards Jointly Validation of Land Remote Sensing Products In China
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  • Optimized sampling strategy of wireless sensor network for validation of remote sensing products over heterogeneous coarse-resolution pixel
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  • Rasdaman for Big Spatial Raster Data (George Mason)
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  • Driving Scientific Innovation with Open GIS Data (Amazon Web Services)
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  • Discrete Global Grid Systems – A Framework for the next Era in Big Earth Data (Pyxis)
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  • Scaling Critical Zone analysis tasks from desktop to the cloud utilizing contemporary distributed computing and data management approaches: A case study for project based learning of Cyberinfrastructure concepts
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  • Big Data Geo-Analytical Tool Development for Spatial Analysis Uncertainty Visualization and Quantification Needs
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  • Array Databases: Agile Analytics (not just) for the Earth Sciences
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  • High-Resiliency and Auto-Scaling of Large-Scale Cloud Computing for OCO-2 L2 Full Physics Processing (NASA JPL)
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  • The Synthetic Aperture Radar Science Data Processing Foundry Concept for Earth Science (NASA JPL)
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  • A Columnar Storage Strategy with Spatiotemporal Index for Big Climate Data (George Mason & NASA)
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  • LVFS: A Big Data File Storage Bridge for the HPC Community (NASA Goddard & U. Maryland)
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  • Exploring quantum computing application to satellite data assimilation (NASA Goddard & UC-Davis)
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  • Using CyberShake Workflows to Manage Big Seismic Hazard Data on Large-Scale Open-Science HPC Resources (USC & SCEC)
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IN51C Oral Session Lineup

  • EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE) : An environment to verify, validate, integrate and demonstrate EarthCube technology components
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  • Envisioning a Future of Computational Geoscience in a Data Rich Semantic World
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  • Geospatial-enabled Data Exploration and Computation through Data Infrastructure Building Blocks
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  • Clearing your Desk! Software and Data Services for Collaborative Web Based GIS Analysis
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  • A Look Under the Hood: How the JPL Tropical Cyclone Information System Uses Database Technologies to Present Big Data to Users
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  • Connecting real-time data to algorithms and databases: EarthCube’s Cloud-Hosted Real-time Data Services for the Geosciences (CHORDS)
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  • Between a Map and a Data Rod
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  • Rethinking Approaches to Exploration and Analysis of Big Data in Earth Science
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    IN52A Oral Session Lineup

  • DREAM: Distributed Resources for the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) Advanced Management
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  • Independent Technology Assessment within the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Testbed
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  • A Cloud Computing Workflow for Scalable Integration of Remote Sensing and Social Media Data in Urban Studies
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  • Access to Cloud Raster Data Using GDAL, MRF and LERC (Esri)
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  • Improved Hammond’s Landform Classification and Method for Global 250m Elevation Data (Esri)
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  • Multi-Scale Change Detection Research of Remotely Sensed Big Data in CyberGIS
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  • Condensing Massive Satellite Datasets For Rapid Interactive Analysis
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  • High-Speed On-Board Data Processing Platform for LIDAR Projects at NASA Langley Research Center
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    Contacts

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