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Enabling Earth Science Through Cloud ComputingCloud Computing holds tremendous potential for missions across the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Several flight missions are already benefiting from an investment in cloud computing for mission critical pipelines and services through faster processing time, higher availability, and drastically lower costs available on cloud systems. However, these processes do not currently extend to general scientific algorithms relevant to earth science missions. The members of the Airborne Cloud Computing Environment task at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have worked closely with the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) mission to integrate cloud computing into their science data processing pipeline. This paper details the efforts involved in deploying a science data system for the CARVE mission, evaluating and integrating cloud computing solutions with the system and porting their science algorithms for execution in a cloud environment.
Document ID
20150008798
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Hardman, Sean
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Riofrio, Andres
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Shams, Khawaja
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Freeborn, Dana
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Springer, Paul
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Chafin, Brian
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
May 26, 2015
Publication Date
March 3, 2012
Subject Category
Geosciences (General)
Computer Systems
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 3, 2012
End Date: March 10, 2012
Sponsors: PHM Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
science data system
airborne mission

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