News and Research Highlights
ITSC Represented at NASA's GOMI ROSES Closeout Workshop
Dr. Sara Graves, Director of UAH Information Technology & Systems Center, attended NASA's Gulf of Mexico Initiative (GOMI) ROSES Closeout Workshop in New Orleans. The workshop was held on January 23 - 25, 2013 to present the results of the 48 projects funded by the ROSES 2008 A.28 and 2009 A.40 solicitations. Dr. Graves presented the Sediment Analysis Network for Decision Support (SANDS) a collaboration among ITSC and the Geological Survey of Alabama to generate enhanced imagery that depict suspended sediments resulting from selected hurricanes impacting the Gulf Coast. Both enhanced imagery and source data sets (Landsat and MODIS imagery in GeoTIFF for selected hurricane landfall events) are available from Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC), a NASA Earth science data center managed jointly by NASA MSFC and UAH ITSC. More>>
Awards rewarded to ITSC at the 2013 ESIP Federation Meeting
ITSC director Dr. Sara Graves and ITSC's Ken Keiser received awards at the 2013 ESIP Federation Meeting!
Dr. Graves was honored with the Martha Maiden Award. This award was established in 2009 to recognize outstanding service to the Earth science information community. This award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership, dedication and a collaborative spirit in advancing the field of Earth Science information.
Ken was honored with the ESIP's President's Award. This honor is given to an individual who has made the most significant contribution to the Federation in the previous year. More>>
ITSC at the 2013 AMS Annual Meeting
ITSC's Manil Maskey (pictured above) attended the 2013 AMS (American Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. He presented two posters: "Curated Data Albums for Hurricane Case Studies" and "Fostering national and international collaborations for Arctic Resources using a Virtual Collaboratory." More>>
ITSC Featured in UAH Research & Alumni News
Sandra Harper of the ITSC shares how the ITSC provides a collaboration portal to the Northern Gulf Coastal Hazards Collaboratory (NG CHC) designed to encourage collaborative "open science" by providing scientists with the capability to easily organize, discover, and share data, tools and information. More>>
NASA's GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment Wraps Up
For six weeks in Ontario, Canada, scientists and engineers lead a field campaign to study the science and mechanics of falling snow. The field team was supported by data managers at the ITSC who developed and maintained an on-line portal which provided data and collaborative resources. The datasets from GCPEx will be made available through the Global Hydrology Resource Center as soon as they are released by the GCPEx science team. The ground validation science manager Walt Petersen gives a summary of the GCPEx field campaign on the GCPEx Blog.
Applications Developed by ITSC
The ITSC recently developed a collaborative environment for the Transplant Professional department at the UAHuntsville
College of Nursing. Named the Transplant Professional Portal, it was designed by transplant professionals who routinely
emailed/networked with other colleagues to collaborate about complex problems unique to transplantation. In addition,
the ITSC has developed an application for Android called Mobile Transplant Professional and one for iPhone/iPod Touch
called transplantpro based on information at the portal. This app allows you use transplant related tools and connect
to transplant professionals from wherever you are, since most transplant professionals don't always have access to their
computer.
You can access the Transplant Professional Portal at tpp.uah.edu/.
The applications are available at:
iPhone/iPod Touch- itunes.apple.com/us/app/transplantpro/id512387289?ls=1&mt=8
Android Phones- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsc.transplantpro
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GRIP Revisited
In September 2010, more than a hundred scientists watched and waited as a tropical depression hovering over the Caribbean Sea swirled and formed into Tropical Storm Karl. Two days later, as the storm quickly intensified into a Category 3 hurricane near Mexico, the scientists pounced. Three aircraft with their payloads of sensors flew right into Karl to profile the storm’s innards—violently rotating wind and clouds, and torrential rains that fell on the southern bend of the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
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| ITSC Completes Integration of Provenance Tools into NASA System |
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Michael Goodman, NASA/MSFC, reports the successful integration of ITSC's provenance capture tools into the AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer – Earth Observing System) data production system. |
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The AMSR-E provenance tools are the result of Goodman’s ACCESS (Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science) project “Instant Karma: Applying a Proven Provenance Tool to NASA’s AMSR-E Data Production Stream.”
Co-I Helen Conover of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who manages the AMSR-E SIPS with Mr. Goodman, oversaw the development and integration of streamlined provenance tools for the AMSR-E system. Co-I Dr. Rahul Ramachandran, also of UAH, led development of a Provenance Browser to allow science users to explore lineage and context of an individual data file, or general context information for a data collection. Co-I Dr. Thorsten Markus and others on the AMSR-E Sea Ice algorithm team provided a science focus for the information collected and displayed.
The AMSR-E Provenance Browser is available for test at provenance.itsc.uah.edu/. It provides access lineage and context information for a test set of AMSR-E products from September and October 2011. Results from this project will be integrated into the AMSR-E SIPS production environment, to provide for provenance collection, storage and dissemination. Provenance metadata and tools will be made available to the AMSR-E data user community after reprocessing to begin in the fall of 2012.
For more information, see the full story at NASA's Earth Data website and the poster from the recent ESDSWG meeting.
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ITSC Research and Projects |
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| GLIDER: Globally Leveraged Integrated Data Explorer for Research |
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GLIDER allows users to visualize and analyze satellite data in its native sensor view. Users can enhance the image by applying different image processing algorithms on the data. GLIDER provides users with a full suite of pattern recognition and data mining algorithms that can be applied to satellite imagery to extract thematic information. The suite of algorithms includes both supervised and unsupervised classification algorithms. In addition, users can project satellite imagery and analysis/mining results onto a 3D globe for visualization. GLIDER was recognized by NASA as the recipient of the 2010 Software Reuse Award More >> |
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| Talkoot: Drupal Extensions to Create Earth Science Portals |
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Talkoot is a customizable software appliance that can be used to construct collaborative portals for Earth Science services and analysis workflows. Developed by the ITSC, Talkoot takes advantage of the Drupal open architecture platform to provide core Content Management System (CMS) capabilities and a vast array of specialized open community developed modules. Talkoot is adding Earth Science specific modules that provide data searching, processing, analysis and other capabilities. More>> |
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| Airborne Science Data Management |
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ITSC researchers and data managers have participated in a number of NASA field campaigns since 1998. Our roles include working with scientists and mission managers during mission preparation; supporting the mission in the field, and providing stewardship for the resulting data. Data from field campaigns is made available to researchers by the ITSC managed Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) – a NASA data center. |
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Partnering Earth Observations for People Living Environmentally
Arctic Collaborative Environment: PEOPLE-ACE |
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The PEOPLE-ACE project is a decision support system focused on the changing environment of the Arctic region. By employing a robust data management system populated with timely data from remotely sensed and in-situ data products, decision makers will be given the ability to make decisions based on sound scientific data. The PEOPLE-ACE project is an international program which brings together groups from nations in the Arctic region enabling broader sharing of resources and producing a system that can serve the region as a whole. PEOPLE-ACE is strengthening engagements with partner nations and research organizations, while capitalizing on existing assets, capabilities, and a proven itsc-developed architecture.
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Tropical Storms Database
This Tropial Storms Database provides a convenient user interface for casually browsing storm information, including location, category, and wind speed. The bulk of the information in the database is derived from the storm data provided annually by the National Hurricane Center. The files contain storms from 1851 to the previous storm season. We download and process data for ongoing storms during the storm season (roughly April to January) to supplement this database. These data are constantly updated in the database while there are active storms. More>>
Data Mining
The ITSC data mining research areas include machine learning, phenomena detection, knowledge discovery, and streaming data. Particular emphasis is given to large heterogeneous spatial data sets that are common in both Earth science and other real-world problems. ADaM, an Algorithm Development and Mining System, developed by the ITSC, is a widely used data mining application with over 100 components that can be configured to create customized mining processes. ADaM Version 4.0.2 is now available for download. More>>
Text / Document Mining
Many enterprises have large collections of documents that they need to manage, search and analyze. In general, unstructured text documents present the greatest challenge because all information used to index, search and analyze the documents must be derived from the documents themselves. Spyglass is a software tool that is designed to help analysts explore very large collections of unstructured text documents. Spyglass uses a domain ontology to index documents and provides retrieval and visualization services based on the ontology and the resulting index. More>>
Semantic Web and Ontologies
The ITSC is a partner in the NSF information technology research project LEAD (Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery). For this project we created an ontology that provides semantic metadata for data sets and serves as an educational service, knowledge resource and community reference. More>>
Artificial Intelligence for Wargames
The ITSC is doing artificial intelligence research and development for commercial wargames. ITSC has partnered with John Tiller Software and HPS Simulations to produce the award winning "Total War In Europe: The First Blitzkrieg". In addition, ITSC has developed customizable AI components for John Tiller's "Modern Air Power" game, which is being used by the United States Air Force in the Air and Space Basic Course. More>>
Sensor Network Simulations
The ITSC is developing real time data fusion and target tracking algorithms for very large sensor networks. Networks consisting of over one million heterogeneous sensors are being used to track hundreds of targets over a simulated theater of battle. More>>
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