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posted on 2019-12-20, 13:37 authored by Sara Graves, sgraves@uah.edu, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Geoffrey Stano, Will Ellett, Manil MaskeyThe Global Hydrology Resource Center
(GHRC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), a joint venture between
the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and NASA, has developed a
framework for using cloud-native technologies for ingesting,
cataloging, subsetting, downloading, and visualizing NASA Earth Science
multi-instrument datasets. This framework uses many serverless
technologies from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform to keep the
cost of managing such cloud-based services very low. This framework is
being successfully used for GHRC's Field Campaign Explorer (FCX), which
is in the midst of being ported to AWS. Originally developed for the HS3
field campaign, FCX’s capabilities are being extended, both in function
and by using AWS, to serve as the primary end user tool to visualize
data holdings at GHRC. FCX incorporates design features and expertise
developed by GHRC members in the creation of the Visualization for
Integrated Satellite, Airborne, and Ground-based data Exploration
(VISAGE). Combined, these efforts are aimed at creating a tool that can
be used to discover, visualize, and obtain field campaign and other
data. This allows for the re-enactment of mission flights, interactive
visualizations, three-dimensional displays, and subset and view plots of
data on the fly. This presentation will discuss the general framework’s
architecture as well as provide use case examples for demonstration.
This framework will serve as an example of how to do end-to-end
cloud-native services for Earthdata Cloud. This poster was presented in January 2020 at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting held in Bethesda, MD.