IN009
Applications of Free and Open-Source Technologies for Advancing Earth and Space Science

Session ID#: 82541

Session Description:
Rapid advancements in technology, along with the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) paradigm, have improved the pace and ability to conduct research. With larger data volumes and heterogeneous data types, there is a growing need for evermore complex data formats; however, these files often rely on tools that are unfamiliar to general users and decision makers. Also, further advancements of applied informatics in the Earth Sciences will depend upon the interoperability and reuse of software as well as the continued growth of open formats, data, and training datasets. The highly customizable nature of FOSS fosters innovation and increases collaboration by making resources openly available to various end users for reuse and development.  This session aims to highlight FOSS geospatial web applications, tools, and platforms that utilize open data, software, and technologies in efforts to bridge the gap between scientists and decision makers in the Earth Sciences.
Co-Organized:
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
1928 GIS science [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
1978 Software re-use [INFORMATICS]

Primary Convener:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Francisco Jose Delgado, USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, Manil Maskey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Sarva Teja Pulla, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Re-architecting a Legacy Codebase with FOSS Tools (485677)
Kathleen D Moore1, Arun Gopalan2, Joshua Wilkins3, Thomas N Hillyer4 and Matthew Tisdale1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)SSAI, Virginia Beach, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
 
Three-Dimensional, Multiscale System for Geomorphometric Modeling of the Arctic Ocean Floor: Development of Desktop and Web Applications Using the Blender Software (488106)
Igor Florinsky, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia and Alexander Govorov, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK), Moscow, Russia
 
The eWaterCycle platform for Open Science Hydrology (490838)
Niels Drost1, Rolf Hut2, Nick Van De Giesen2, Ben van Werkhoven1, Jerom P.M. Aerts2, Inti Pelupessy1, Berend Weel1, Stefan Verhoeven1, Ronald van Haren1, Eric Hutton3, Maarten van Meersbergen1, Fakhereh Alidoost1, Gijs van den Oord1, Yifat Dzigan1, Jaro Camphuijsen1, Bouwe Andela1 and Caitlyn A Hall4, (1)Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
The Open-Source EarthCube Cyberinfrastructure BALTO: Applications in Earth Science (518590)
D. Sarah Stamps1, James H R Gallagher2, Scott Dale Peckham3, Anne F Sheehan4, Nathan Potter2, Maria Stoica5, Emmanuel Atem Njinju6, Zach M Easton7, David W Fulker2 and Daniel R Fuka7, (1)Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, MT, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (7)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Modern, microservices based web-applications for accessing atmospheric data: ARM Data Center Example (518842)
Ranjeet Devarakonda1, Kavya Guntupally2, Michael Cameron Crow2, Wade Darnell3, Kyle K Dumas4, Sean Robertson5, Mitchell Broxson5, Maggie R Davis6, Harold Shanafield7, Michael Giansiracusa5 and Giri Prakash2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Oak Ridge, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ESD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (7)ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Software Tool for Tracking and Mapping the NASA Orion Ascent Abort 2 Test Flight Ejectable Data Recorders in Real-time (521564)
Lucas Moxey, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, United States and Kristina Rojdev, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
 
SeedMeLab: Search, manage, share and visualize data, like never before (523226)
Amit Chourasia1, David R Nadeau1 and Michael R Norman2, (1)San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States
 
Using the Generic Mapping Tools from Julia (543187)
Joaquim Manuel Freire Luis, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal and Paul Wessel, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
The Cumulus Ecosystem: Open Source and Beyond to Foster Collaboration (546503)
Lauren Frederick, NASA EED-2 / Element 84, Alexandria, VA, United States
 
Image Labeler: Label Earth Science Images For Machine Learning (551788)
Ashish aa0132@uaH.edu1, Iksha Gurung1, Brian Freitag1, Manil Maskey2 and Rahul Ramachandran2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Providing data access and analysis capabilities to SERVIR’s data-sparse regions (552058)
William Ashmall, Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Francisco Jose Delgado, USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States and Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
CyberWater—An open and sustainable framework for diverse data and model integration (580524)
Daniel Luna1, Ranran Chen2, Cao Yuan2, Yao Liang2, Xu Liang1, Jerad Bales3, Anthony M Castronova3, Ibrahim Demir4, Richard P Hooper5, Witold F Krajewski4, Lan Lin6, Ricardo Mantilla4, Sudhakar Pamidighantam7, Fengguang Song2 and Yang Zhang8, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Computer and Information Science, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (3)Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, (6)Ball State University, Computer Science, Muncie, IN, United States, (7)Indiana University Bloomington, Chemistry, Bloomington, IN, United States, (8)North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States
 
RLeafAngle: An R package to estimate, plot and evaluate leaf angle distribution functions (581270)
Weimin Wang1, Liming Wang2, Li Tang1 and Xiangyun Xiong1, (1)Shenzhen Environmental Monitoring Center, Shenzhen, China, (2)Portland State University, Portland, United States
 
NASA GIBS and Worldview: Leveraging FOSS for NASA Earth Science Data Visualizations (Invited) (582904)
Matthew F Cechini1, Ryan A Boller2, Joe T Roberts3, Joshua Rodriguez3, Min Minnie Wong1, Mike McGann4, Zachary Rice5, Edward Plato6, Benjamin Adam King6 and Katie Baynes7, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Columbus Technologies and Services Greenbelt, Elkridge, MD, United States, (5)ASRC Federal Holding Company, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, ESDIS, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Paradigm for Managing Urban Drainage Leveraging Geospatial and Crowd Sourcing Techniques (601624)
Anupriya Goyal, Harsha Yadav, Himanshu Tyagi, Ashvani Kumar Gosain and Rakesh Khosa, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India
 
Water Quality Monitoring of In-Land Lakes in East Africa: How Open Source Tethys and Google Earth Engine Platforms are Improving Water Quality Data Analysis, Visualization and Decision Making (609031)
James Wanjohi Nyaga1, Kel Nicolas Markert2, Andi Brinn Thomas3, Robinson M Mugo1, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome1 and Daniel Irwin4, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)HX5—Jacobs JETS Contract, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Managing and Serving Geospatial and Geodynamic Data of Turkey Over an Online FaaS Based System (615716)
Deniz Başar, Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, Rahmi N. Çelik, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey and Onur Gorgun, Nokia Turkey, Research and Development, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Dancing Rivers in the Amazon Basin, the science behind the movement of rivers: A data visualization platform (616039)
Gabriela Flores1, Gerardo Valencia1, Jaime Del Alcazar1, Wan Chantavilasvong2, Jose Velarde1, Evelyn Calderon1 and Jorge D Abad1, (1)Universidad De Ingenieria Y Tecnologia, Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia del Agua - CITA, Lima, Peru, (2)Chulalongkorn University, Urban and Regional Planning, Bangkok, Thailand
 
Multitenant Web Applications for Managing Data Across Multiple Projects at ORNL, Example: NGEE-Arctic, ARM, and Mercury Critical Interfaces Science Focus Area (620999)
Michael Cameron Crow1, Ranjeet Devarakonda2, Terri Killeffer1 and Leslie Hook2, (1)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Multi-Mission Geographic Information System (MMGIS): an Open Source Spatial Data Infrastructure for Spacecraft Science Operations (626574)
Fred J Calef III1, Tariq K Soliman2, Joe T Roberts1, Hallie Gengl1 and Luke Dahl1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
A Google Earth Engine Wetland Extent Mapping Tool using Open Source Optical and Radar Satellite Sensors (631496)
Erica O'Connor1, Alice Lin1, Christopher Notto1, Melissa Ferriter1, Bruce Chapman2 and Benjamin Holt3, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA DEVELOP Program - JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
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