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

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

101

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650462

Filename

5650462