Title :
Enhancing remote sensing education with GeoBrain cyberinfrastructure
Author :
Di, Liping ; Deng, Meixia
Author_Institution :
Center for Spatial Inf. Sci. & Syst., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
Modern geoscience and remote sensing (RS) are increasingly data-intensive. Cyberinfrastructure (CI) plays an essential role in data-intensive geoscience and RS research and education. GeoBrain is one of NASA´s significant investments in CI for facilitating data-intensive Earth science (ES) and RS research and education. The GeoBrain CI, which makes large data and computing resources interoperable and sharable over the Web by adopting and developing the latest Web service, geospatial interoperability and related information technologies, provides an innovative approach to data-intensive geospatial computing. This paper addresses the GeoBrain solution to major issues in data-intensive ES/RS education and illustrates how use of GeoBrain could greatly enhance ES/RS education.
Keywords :
Earth; Web services; computer aided instruction; geophysics computing; open systems; remote sensing; ES education; Earth science; GeoBrain CI; GeoBrain cyberinfrastructure; RS education; RS research; Web service; data-intensive geoscience; data-intensive geospatial computing; geospatial interoperability; information technology; remote sensing education; Distributed databases; Education; Geoscience; Geospatial analysis; Portals; Remote sensing; Web services; Web service; cyber-infrastructure; data-intensive; education; geoscience; geospatial; interoperability; remote sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650462
