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100 years of Technological Advances in the Earth and Space Sciences

Session ID#: 76400

Session Description:
The last 100 years have witnessed amazing progress in technologies that have helped inform our understanding of Earth and Space sciences. These breakthroughs have included the development of in situ sensors, space-based observing platforms, and high-fidelity models. A convergence of technology advancements in microsatellites, unattended aerial vehicles, and sensor networks have resulted in profound leaps forward in scientific understanding. Complementing the development of sensors and numerical models has been advancements in information technology, including graphical information systems, high performance computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We will discuss the past and future of these areas, and the anticipated impact on the advancement of science.
Co-Organized:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1972 Sensor web [INFORMATICS]
1994 Visualization and portrayal [INFORMATICS]

Primary Convener:  Jane K Hart, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Michael S Seablom, NASA, Washington, DC, United States, Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Geoff Bland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Geoff Bland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Over 50 Years of Earth Atmospheric Sensing from Space Using Passive Microwave Observations: A Retrospective and Look Ahead (Invited) (499676)
William J Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States
 
100 Years of Computational Technologies Have Enabled Advances in Earth and Space Sciences (Invited) (500464)
Michael M Little, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Tsengdar J Lee, NASA, Burke, VA, United States, Daniel Duffy, NASA Center for Climate Simulation, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
The Changing Ocean: 100 Years of Oceanographic Sensing (Invited) (507487)
Deborah S Kelley, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
 
UAS for Earth Sciences, the State of the Art and Future Directions (Invited) (562410)
Jack Steward Elston1, Maciej Stachura1 and Geoff Bland2, (1)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Advances in tracking glacier change over the past century (Invited) (586330)
Laura Thomson, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
 
A Retrospective Analysis of an Epistemological Computer Simulation That Framed the Design of the US Global Operational Observing Systems for the Past 50 Years and Future Decades. (Invited) (598112)
Milton Halem, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Computer Science, Baltimore, MD, United States, Mark A Cane, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Richard Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Zhifeng Yang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Physics Department, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Two decades of Roving on Mars: Are we there yet? (Invited) (617360)
Rob Manning, NASA JPL, Pasadena, United States
 
A century of water data: triumphs and frontiers (Invited) (622852)
Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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