NSF funded project to generate high-resolution forest structure maps and accurate Above Ground Biomass estimates derived from fusion of multi-source satellite remote sensing data, statistical modeling, and AI/ML techniques.
Funding: NSF awards 2409885, 2409886 and 2409887
NSF funded OpenTopography project facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.
Funding: NSF awards 2410799, 2410800 and 241801
Past Funding: NSF awards 1948997, 1948994 and 1948857
Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)
CARTA is a virtual organization formed in order to promote transdisciplinary research into human origins, drawing on methods from a number of traditional disciplines spanning the humanities, social, biomedical, biological, computational & engineering and physical & chemical sciences.
NSF funded CloudBank is a cloud access entity that helps the computer science community access and use public clouds for research and education by delivering a set of managed services designed to simplify access to public clouds.
A novel GNSS-based terrestrial water storage time series for the nation
NASA project leverages Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS, which includes the Global Positioning System) data from NASA's SESES program to produce a data product that maps terrestrial water storage changes over the continental United States at unrivaled spatiotemporal resolution, with latencies of one week or less.
Funding: NASA ROSES National Climate Assessment NNX16AG30G
The NASA funded project is developing cyberinfrastructure that will enable users, both novice and expert users across different science specializations to discover, process and visualization ICESat and ICESat-2 data via a powerful, interactive interface.
Funding: NASA ACCESS Award NNX16AL89A
American Red Cross Safe and Well List / Cyberinfrastructure Preparedness for Emergency Response and Relief: Learning the lessons from Hurricane Katrina
The American Red Cross Safe and Well Website is a service provided by the American Red Cross (ARC) for use by victims of disasters in the US, and their loved ones. The Safe and Well list service was an idea that originated during Hurricane Katrina when researchers at SDSC worked in close conjunction with the American Red Cross to provide such a site for victims of Katrina (and, soon thereafter, Hurricane Rita).
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0638561
Big Data Benchmarking
The objective of this project is to develop an end-to-end application-layer benchmark for big data applications to enable ranking of big data systems according to a well-defined, verifiable/audited performance metric, with an accompanying efficiency metric.
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1241838
Big Data Top 100
The BigData Top100 List is a new collaborative effort between academia and industry to develop definitions and specifications for big data benchmarking and support publication of benchmark results, blending approaches from high performance computing (top500.org) and transaction processing and database systems (Transaction Processing Council, TPC).
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338373
CloudStor: Data Intensive Computing in the Cloud
The objective of the CloudStor project is to explore new strategies and technologies for data-intensive cloud computing; investigate application profiles that benefit from this paradigm; and, develop corresponding applications. The CloudStor group is interested in evaluating the performance and price/performance of alternative, dynamic strategies for provisioning data intensive applications based on parallel database systems versus Hadoop.
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0844530
Geosciences Network (GEON)
GEON is a collaborative research project among a dozen PI institutions, funded by the NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) program, to develop cyberinfrastructure for Earth Science data sharing and integration.
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0225673, 0744229
Open Science Chain
Open Science Chain utilizes distributed ledger technology (consortium blockchain) to securely store information about scientific data including its provenance to enable independent verification of its authenticity to establish trust in the research community.
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840218
Spatiotemporal Analysis of 9-1-1 Call Stream Data
Analysis of 9-1-1 call stream data will provide a better understanding of the spatiotemporal patterns of emergency calls and their correlation to external events. Predictive models built with this data can lead to real-time decision support and better overall planning to enable more efficient and effective response to emergencies.
Funding: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0429448
Tropical Ecological Assessment and Monitoring Network
The goal of the TEAM Network project is to scale up ecological studies to global proportions. This ambitious initiative is devoted to monitoring long-term trends in biodiversity and by establishing networks of tropical field stations and standardized methods of data collection so that scientists anywhere on Earth can quantify at the pace at which we are saving tropical ecosystems.