My Journey with Data
Yaxing Wei ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC)
Climate Change Science Institute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN, USA
My First Data Project
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Courtesy of Google and www.lafayette.edu
Research on Geospatial Data Grid
• NASA Earth Observation Data
• Grid computing and Web technologies
3 Wei, Dissertation
Virtual Geospatial Data
Geospatial Data Grid
GMU
NASA Ames
DOE LLNL
Build Skills
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Programming Web
Technology
Metadata Data
Analysis
Data Management GIS
Engage with Science Communities
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• North American Carbon Program Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (NACP MAST-DC) – Site-level Interim Synthesis
– Regional and Continental Interim Synthesis
– Mid-continent Intensive Interim Synthesis
– Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
– Coastal Interim Synthesis
Engage with Science Communities
• NACP Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP)
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Engage with Science Communities
• National Hydropower Asset Assessment Program (NHAAP)
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Dasgupta et al., 2015
Innovation
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• Data Visualization
Before After
Before
After
Dasgupta et al., 2015
Innovation
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• Web-based On-demand Data Access
http://webmap.ornl.gov/ogcdown
Innovation
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Long Journey Ahead
• Data Interoperability
• Big Data
• Small Data
Most Important …
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Devoted
ORNL DAAC
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Questions?
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