Building climatological services on the cloud
Thomas S. Huang, Michael E. Gangl, Andrew W. Bingham · 2011
The NASA Physical Oceanographic Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at Jet Propulsion Laboratory is funded by the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project to conduct a study of cloud services for data management, data access and data processing. The study is to improve our understanding and articulate the cost/benefit of cloud technologies for the NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) and Science Investigator-led Production Systems (SIPs). This demonstration focuses on our experience in developing climatology services using Apache Hadoop to store and analyze temporal and spatial characteristics of scatter-ometer data over Antarctica.