Zoom Recording
Notes DocThe earth science community is faced with a need for greatly improved data sharing, analysis, visualization and advanced collaboration, based firmly on open science principles.
Furthermore, recent and upcoming launches of new satellite missions, with more complex and voluminous data, require spatial data infrastructures (SDI) that allow rapid and collaborative development of new algorithms, stewardship of those algorithms and their data products, and visualization/analysis capabilities.
At the same time, advances in on-demand, distributed compute, and storage have allowed our community to collaborate globally to produce a new breed of analysis-ready, higher-level data products suitable for communities broader than the traditional earth science user.
These opportunities and challenges, driven by the use case of an ever more urgent need to better understand the global carbon budget and related ecological processes, provided the immediate rationale for the Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP).
MAAP was born out of a collaboration between two government agencies from different continents. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) collaborated to provide an SDI designed to address the challenges of sharing and processing data from field, airborne, and satellite measurements related to ESA and NASA missions, in order to foster and accelerate scientific research conducted by those organization’s EO data users.
MAAP was publicly released in October 2021, providing computing capabilities co-located with the data, a collaborative coding and analysis environment, and a set of interoperable tools and algorithms developed to support the estimation and visualization of global above-ground biomass, using data from NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission and the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) in conjunction with data from ESA’s AfriSAR mission.
MAAP has allowed scientists from both North America and Europe to collaborate on the generation and analysis/visualization of data derived from multiple, discipline-adjacent missions in an open, collaborative environment that has reached beyond traditional scientific investigation.
Iterating on our 2021 release, MAAP will support the forthcoming ESA Biomass mission and incorporate data from the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission. We will also develop our framework to graduate MAAP-developed algorithms and data products into production environments.
MAAP speakers will discuss the lessons learned and best practices from collaborative development of the operational system and the results derived from the platform. We will also describe our plans to expand upon the initial use case of above-ground biomass research into other domains leveraging and expanding the current MAAP architecture, design and implementation.
We invite other speakers to share their experiences and results in this realm of online, scalable, collaborative scientific frameworks.
Recommended Ways to Prepare: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-esa-partnership-releases-platform-for-open-source-science-in-the-cloud
