IN21B:
Free and Open-Source Technologies for Advancing Earth and Space Sciences I eLightning


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Session ID#: 56915

Session Description:
More complex data formats are necessary for remote sensing and satellite measurements, which have a much larger data volume and heterogeneous data types. Some data formats have many powerful features, but these files need to be read with tools that are not familiar to general users. Rapid advancements in technology have improved the ability to conduct research and disseminate data in the Earth and Space Sciences area.

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) paradigm has changed the way we develop and use software. Whole industries are now founded on using FOSS. However, it is only one aspect of applying informatics in geoscience research. Interoperability and reuse of software also depend on open formats and open data. Progress in machine learning will depend on open training datasets.
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia
Conveners:  Sarva Teja Pulla, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Keith D Evans, University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR II, Baltimore, MD, United States and Amanda Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia
Chairs:  Sarva Teja Pulla, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Manil Maskey, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States; NASA, Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI), Huntsville, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Sarva Teja Pulla, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Index Terms:

1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Transformative Tuna: How Electronic Animal Tags Improved Rosetta for Everyone (454195)
Sean Cody Arms1, Vardis M Tsontos2, Jennifer Oxelson Ganter3, Chi Hin Lam4, Charles K Thompson5, Nga Chung5, Lewis John McGibbney5, Flynn Platt6 and Joe T Roberts7, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Unidata, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA/JPL, Pasadena, United States, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Large Pelagics Research Center/University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
YAML encoding promotes human and machine readability for satellite ASCII data (455930)
Wen-Hao Li, Raytheon Company Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States, Edward M Armstrong, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Christopher J Finch, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and David N Wiese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Skip the Parsing Blues: Interoperable Data Delivery from Observing Platforms (443233)
Eugene F Burger1, Scott Stalin2, Matthew Casari1, Kevin O'Brien3, Robert Simons4 and Willa Zhu5, (1)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (2)Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)NOAA/PMEL UW Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, Seattle, United States, (4)NOAA Pacific Grove, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (5)Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, United States
Tuning HDF5 (and NetCDF-4) Applications to Overcome and Avoid Compression Pitfalls (467672)
Larry Knox and Elena Pourmal, The HDF Group, Champaign, IL, United States
A Reusability Assessment of Recommended Software Solutions for Improving the Quality of Earth Science Data Products and Services (395876)
Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States, Hampapuram Ramapriyan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Democratizing Geospatial Image Processing with Open Source (Invited) (351519)
Andrew Bollinger, Cloud.Gov, Washington, United States
Using Open Source Tools for Change Detection and Feature Extraction of Urban Infrastructure and Landscape from Mobile LiDAR Sensor Data to Manage Geospatial Features (439569)
Bienvenido Alonzo Alonzo, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Open Numerical Simulation Data of Planetary Magnetosphere (403335)
Keiichiro Fukazawa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Tomoki Kimura, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Fuminori Tsuchiya, Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, Go Murakami, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, Hajime Kita, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, Chihiro Tao, NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Terumasa Tokunaga, Department of Systems Design and Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan and Ken Takeshi Murata, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
HAPI: An API for Streaming ASCII Data over HTTP (443426)
Robert S Weigel, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Jon Duane Vandegriff, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Jeremy Faden, Self Employed, Washington, United States, Todd A King, UCLA/ESS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, D Aaron Roberts, NASA Goddard SFC, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bernard T Harris, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert M Candey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Space Physics Data Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nand Lal, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cntr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Scott A Boardsen, NASA GSFC/UMBC, Greenbelt, United States, Douglas M Lindholm, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Tom Baltzer, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, E. W. Grimes, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Lawrence E Brown, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, SES, Laurel, MD, United States
Tethys WPS Server: An open source platform for Water Resources Web Processing Services (WPS) development (444612)
Xiaohui Qiao, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, Daniel P Ames, Brigham Young University, Civil and Construction Engineering, Provo, United States, Zhiyu Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, Urbana, United States, Jim Nelson, Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States and Nathan R Swain, Brigham Young University, Provo, United States
Towards democratization of water related data in developing regions using cloud computing and open source geospatial web applications (Invited) (438690)
Kel Nicolas Markert1,2, Sarva Teja Pulla3, Ashutosh S Limaye3, Hyongki Lee4, David S Saah5,6, Ate Poortinga7, Susantha Jayasinghe8, Faith Mithieu9, Chinaporn Meechaiya8, Mamadou Adama Sarr10, Amanda Markert1,2, Eric Ross Anderson11 and Farrukh Chishtie12, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Pleasanton, United States, (7)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (8)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (9)Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (10)Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Dakar, Senegal, (11)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (12)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand
Using NASA’s Worldview to Convey Scientific Findings (373418)
Zachary Rice1, Ryan A Boller2, Katie Baynes3, Min Minnie Wong4, Benjamin Adam King1, Mike McGann5 and Edward Plato1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Data Systems, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)Columbus Technologies and Services Greenbelt, Elkridge, MD, United States
The Advantages of Synergy – Quantitative Earth Science Data Visualization and Analysis with Giovanni, Panoply, and Excel (398598)
James G Acker, NASA GSFC GES DISC (ADNET Systems Inc.), Greenbelt, United States, Gary T Alcott, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Melanie Ventura, Fairmont Heights High School, Capitol Heights, United States, Jennifer C Wei, NASA GSFC GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David J Meyer, NASA, GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States and Giovanni Development Team

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