IN23B:
New Approaches to Data Discovery Across Geoscience Domains II Posters

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Session ID#: 14131

Session Description:
Research data resides in myriads of independent domain-specific, domain-independent and institutional repositories. These repositories may organize information and support search by datasets, samples, time series, individual observations, etc. Different information models, granularity levels, access mechanisms, and semantic conventions make cross-domain data search far from a trivial task. Further, it is unclear to what extent existing search mechanisms meet the evolving data discovery needs of geoscientists.


This session aims to explore the challenges and new approaches that those who produce data, and those who build systems that enable data discovery, share. Topics include:

  • Methods to improve relevance ranking
  • Federated data search: practice and problems

  • Searching across different types and granularity levels of information
  • Customized web crawling
  • Text mining and NLP to enrich results and enable faceted search
  • Describing dataset relationships for improved scoring by search engines
  • Modeling of user behavior
  • New search paradigms and visual interfaces
Primary Convener:  Siri Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Anita de Waard1,2, Lewis John McGibbney3 and Edward M Armstrong3, (1)Elsevier, Jericho, VT, United States(2)Elsevier, London, United Kingdom(3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Edward M Armstrong, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Siri Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lewis John McGibbney, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1914 Data mining [INFORMATICS]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1936 Interoperability [INFORMATICS]
1950 Metadata: Quality [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Accessing Cloud Properties and Satellite Imagery: A tool for visualization and data mining (184052)
Thad Chee1, Louis Nguyen2, Patrick Minnis3, Douglas Spangenberg4 and Rabindra Palikonda4, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
Creating and Searching a Local Inventory for Data Granules in a Remote Archive (136892)
Peter C Cornillon, University of Rhode Island, Physical Oceanography, Narragansett, United States
Sea Level Rise Data Discovery (165087)
Nga Chung1, Thomas Huang1, Carmen Blackwood1 and Kevin Michael Gill2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Aggregating Queries Against Large Inventories of Remotely Accessible Data (187129)
David W Fulker, OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, MT, United States and James H R Gallagher, OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, United States
searchSCF: Using MongoDB to Enable Richer Searches of Locally Hosted Science Data Repositories (149313)
Brian Knosp, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Microwave Limb Sounder Science Team
New approaches in cataloging and distributing multi-dimensional scientific data: Federal Data Repositories example (161117)
Ranjeet Devarakonda1, Michele Thornton2, Yaxing Wei1, Bhargavi Krishna1, Mike Thomas Frame3, Lisa Zolly4, Rob Records1 and Giri Prakash1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States, (4)USGS Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries, Denver, United States
Mining and Utilizing Dataset Relevancy from Oceanographic Dataset (MUDROD) Metadata, Usage Metrics, and User Feedback to Improve Data Discovery and Access (191194)
Yun Li1, Yongyao Jiang1, Chaowei Phil Yang2, Edward M Armstrong3, Thomas Huang3, David F Moroni4 and Lewis John McGibbney3, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Science, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Towards improving searches on the NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) (171064)
Kim D Whitehall1, Hampapuram Ramapriyan2, Siri Jodha S Khalsa3, Christopher Lynnes4, Lewis John McGibbney5, Edward M Armstrong5 and The Earth Science Data System Working Group (ESDSWG) Search Relevancy Year 1 group, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Computer-Aided Discovery Tools for Volcano Deformation Studies with InSAR and GPS (139594)
Victor Pankratius1, Juliet Pilewskie, PhD2, Cody Millard Rude3, Justin D Li3, Michael Gowanlock3, Noa Bechor1, Thomas Herring1 and Christelle Wauthier4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Improving Discoverability Between the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere/Thermosphere Domains (178554)
Daniel Morrison1, Robert K Schaefer2, Matthew Potter2, Robin J Barnes3, Elsayed R Talaat4 and Theodoris Sarris5, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Space, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
New Tools to Document and Manage Data/Metadata: Example NGEE Arctic and UrbIS (178619)
Michael Cameron Crow1, Ranjeet Devarakonda2, Leslie Hook3, Terri Killeffer1, Misha Krassovski2, Tom Boden4, Anthony W King5 and Stan D Wullschleger2, (1)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Spatial Data Mining for Estimating Cover Management Factor of Universal Soil Loss Equation (179603)
Fuan Tsai1, Tin-Chun Lin2, Tang-Huang Lin1 and Walter W. Chen3, (1)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Jhongli, Taiwan, (2)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Department of Civil Engineering, Jhongli, Taiwan, (3)National Taipei University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan
Progress developing the JAXA next generation satellite data repository (G-Portal). (132793)
Yousuke Ikehata, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite Applications and Operations Center (SAOC), Tsukuba, Japan

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