the clouds the limit: driving impact with the nasa earth exchange - ariel gold (amazon web services)
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Ariel Gold's presentation slides from the ODI Summit 2014Arial Gold's video presentation can be found here: http://vimeo.com/110908146The ODI Summit 2014 took place across London on the 3 - 4 November 2014. Taking place over two days, featuring a training discovery day, conference, gala dinner and open data awards. The day conference was held in the British Film Institute, Southbank, on 4 November. The summit celebrated innovation and evolution of open data and its impact across cultural, economic, environmental and social spheres.Summit videos: bit.ly/odisummit_videoSummit photos: bit.ly/odisummit_photosOur videos: bit.ly/odi_vimeoOur photos: bit.ly/odi_flickrOur audio: bit.ly/odi_soundcloudOur slides: bit.ly/odi_scribdOur tweets: bit.ly/odi_tweetsOur website: www.theodi.orgTRANSCRIPT
The cloud's the limit: Driving impact with the NASA Earth eXchange
Ariel Gold ([email protected])Program Manager, Open DataAmazon Web Services
…care about open data?
Why does Amazon…
AWS Open Data Program Mission
Make it as easy as possible to make data open and drive impact with it.
How do you drive impact with open data? Build communities and tools around sustainable open data sets.
Mission:• Reduce carbon pollution • Promote sound science to understand
and manage climate impacts
Accelerating Research : A tale of two droughts
TRMM MODISFrom 2005 to 2010:• Faster (24 months vs 6 months)• Consistent (same analytical methods, quality flags) • ReproducibleSamantha et al., GRL, 2011
Xu et al., GRL, 2011
• AWS and the NASA Earth eXchange are making over 20 TB of NASA’s Climate and Earth Science data available to the public
• NASA is providing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with pre-installed software that makes it easy to analyze and visualize this data using Amazon’s complement of “Big Data” services
• This enables crowd-sourced, citizen-science applications like those found on the Zooniverse
AWS and NASA Earth eXchange (NEX)
Downscaled climate scenarios developed for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5)
s3://nasanex/NEX-DCP30
NEX Downscaled Climate Projections (NEX-DCP30) MODIS Vegetation Indices
Global biogeochemical and hydrologic modeling, Agricultural monitoring and forecasting, Land-use planning, Land cover characterization, Land cover change detection
s3://nasanex/NEX-DCP30
LANDSAT Global Land Survey (GLS)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA produced global land data sets from Landsat images
s3://nasanex/Landsat
The Data
The Ecosystem
How do you drive impact with open data?
Build communities and tools around sustainable open data sets.
Think Big.
Big is relative.
Get started.
Please get in touch: [email protected] [email protected]
Learn more about Open Data on AWS at:http://bit.ly/awsopendata