Opportunities for Accelerating Research in the Cloud

As the data holdings of the Earth Observation System Data and Information System expand over the next several years, the typical data analysis process of downloading data to local compute resources will become increasingly inefficient. However, cloud computing promises to mitigate that by allowing the user to process close to the data. These improvements will be obtained via a variety of mechanisms: 1 - improving the ability of data transformation services to reduce the data prior to analysis; 2 - providing cloud-native analysis capabilities for common analysis functions; and 3 - providing the ability to work directly with data in Web Object Storage.