IN22A:
Using Open Source Software to Enable Scientific Analysis and Reuse of Data II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia, Edzer J Pebesma, University of Münster, Münster, Germany and Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Chris A Mattmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert R Downs, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Analyzing Geoscientific Data with R: Past, Present, Future
Edzer J Pebesma, University of Muenster, Institute for Geoinformatics, Muenster, Germany
10:35 AM
 
Land Use Change Modelling in R
Simon Moulds, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Grantham Institute for Climate Change, London, United Kingdom and Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Grantham Institute for Climate Change, London, SW7, United Kingdom
10:50 AM
 
Analysis of Giga-size Earth Observation Data in Open Source GRASS GIS 7 - from Desktop to On-line Solutions.
Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Tomasz F. Stepinski, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Space Informatics Lab - SIL, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Jaroslaw Jasiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Geoecology and Geoinformation Institute, Poznań, Poland, Markus Neteler, Fondazione Edmund Mach and Innovation Center, San Michele all'Adige, Italy and Soeren Gebbert, Thuenen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Braunschweig, Germany
11:05 AM
 
On the Use of FOSS4G in Land Cover Fraction Estimation with Unmixing Algorithms
Uttam Kumar1, Cristina Milesi2, Kumar Raja3, Sangram Ganguly4, Weile Wang5, Gong Zhang4 and Ramakrishna R Nemani4, (1)NASA Ames Research Center-Oak Ridge Associated Universities, ARC:TN, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA-CSUMB, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, (3)EADS Innovation Works, Airbus Engineering Centre India, Bangalore, India, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)CSUMB & NASA/AMES, Seaside, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Semantically aided interpretation and querying of Jefferson Project data using the SemantEco framework
Evan W Patton, Paulo Pinheiro and Deborah L McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
11:35 AM
 
Apache Open Climate Workbench: Building Open Source Climate Science Tools and Community at the Apache Software Foundation
Michael Joyce1, Paul Ramirez2, Maziyar Boustani1, Chris A Mattmann1, Shakeh Khudikyan2, Lewis John McGibbney1 and Kim D Whitehall3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:50 AM
 
SimPEG: An open-source framework for geophysical simulations and inverse problems
Rowan Cockett, Seogi Kang and Lindsey Heagy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:05 PM
 
Improving Running Times for the Determination of Fractional Snow-Covered Area from Landsat TM/ETM+ via Utilization of the CUDA® Programming Paradigm
Lewis John McGibbney1, Karl Rittger2, Thomas H Painter3, David Selkowitz4, Chris A Mattmann3 and Paul Ramirez5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States