[Data-Mongers] Special seminar on Pangeo platform for big data geoscience, Tues., 9am, Clark 271

[Stace Beaulieu]

Woods Hole Data Mongers:

Special seminar and demo tomorrow (Tuesday 23 July) from 9am to 10am in 
Clark 271:

Scott Henderson (U. Washington eScience Institute and Earth and Space 
Sciences Dept.) will present "Pangeo: An open community platform for big 
data geoscience analysis and visualization." The Pangeo project 
(http://pangeo.io) is a coordinated effort with NSF and NASA funding to 
promote open, reproducible, and scalable science, with an emphasis on 
software designed to take advantage of Cloud services. He'll present 
computation of vegetation indices with Landsat-8 
<https://medium.com/pangeo/cloud-native-geoprocessing-of-earth-observation-satellite-data-with-pangeo-997692d91ca2>, 
tracking landslide motion with Sentinel-1, and monitoring global sea 
surface height with satellite altimetry. Talk summary and speaker bio below.

Coffee and donuts thanks to Rich Signell!

Rich adds: Even if you aren't interested in remote sensing or ocean 
modeling, this is a great demonstration of how to use the Python 
ecosystem to do scalable data-proximate computing.

Best regards, Stace Beaulieu Coordinator, WHOI Ocean Informatics 
https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-informatics


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Title: Pangeo: An open community platform for big data geoscience 
analysis and visualization

Summary: NASA has estimated that by 2025, it will be storing upwards of 
250 Petabytes (PB) of its data using commercial Cloud services [e.g. 
Amazon Web Services (AWS)]. The Cloud transition could fundamentally 
improve our current approach to data management and also empower 
researchers with computational tools that scale with a dataset of any 
size. The Pangeo project (http://pangeo.io) is a coordinated effort with 
NSF and NASA funding to promote open, reproducible, and scalable 
science, with an emphasis on software designed to take advantage of 
Cloud services. A major goal of the project is to provide a consistent 
user interface (using Jupyter notebooks) whether operating on your 
laptop, institutional HPC, or Cloud provider. In this presentation, 
Scott will provide an update on the Pangeo project and illustrate its 
versatility with several scientific use-cases: Computation of vegetation 
indices with Landsat-8, tracking landslide motion with Sentinel-1, and 
monitoring global sea surface height with satellite altimetry.

Speaker: Scott Henderson is a research scientist affiliated with the 
University of Washington eScience Institute and Earth and Space Sciences 
Department. Scott uses satellite-based synthetic aperture radar and 
other remote sensing methods to quantify and model terrestrial geologic 
hazards such as landslides and volcanic activity. He obtained a PhD in 
Geological Sciences from Cornell University.

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Stace E. Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist, Biology Dept.
MS #34, Redfield 104
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Email stace at whoi.edu
Tel +1 508 289 3536, Skype stace.beaulieu
http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu
https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/sbeaulieu/

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