IN54A
Big Data in Earth Science: From Hype to Reality II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2020 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Kwo-Sen Kuo, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Bayesics, LLC, Bowie, MD, United States
Conveners:  Rahul Ramachandran, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Ben James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and Mike M Little, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Mike M Little, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ben James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
OSPA Liaisons:  Kwo-Sen Kuo, Bayesics, LLC, Bowie, MD, United States
16:00
Forget the hype or reality. Big data presents new opportunities in Earth Science. (Invited) (61226)
Tsengdar J Lee, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
16:15
Building the Petascale National Environmental Research Interoperability Data Platform (NERDIP): Minimizing the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ and Accelerating Pathways to the ‘Plateau of Productivity’ (78510)
Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Ben James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
16:45
The NOAA Big Data Project: NEXRAD on the Cloud (69384)
Ariel Gold, Amazon Web Services, Washington, DC, United States and Jeff Weber, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
17:00
Can Data be Organized for Science and Reuse? (Invited) (61933)
Ted Habermann, HDF Group, Champaign, IL, United States
17:15
Scientific Data Management and Analysis for Earth Science at Scale (79513)
Paul Geoffrey Brown, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
17:30
Climbing the Slope of Enlightenment during NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (Invited) (59951)
Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and ABoVE Science Cloud Team
17:45
Towards a New Assessment of Urban Areas from Local to Global Scales (Invited) (79075)
Budhendra L Bhaduri, Pranab K Roy Chowdhury, Jacob McKee, Jeanette Weaver, Edward Bright and Eric Weber, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States