Increasing the adoption of innovative Earth science technology for operational use through an adaptive research-to-operations framework
Abstract
There is a plethora of innovative approaches and technology currently being used to forward Earth science research. However, often the research conducted and technology used is siloed from other applications making it difficult to integrate different projects together or scale to operational use. These discrepancies often occur due to the lack of standards or use of conflicting standards that hinder the alignment of different research objectives into a common framework. To alleviate these challenges and maximize the return on research and datasets created through NASA, the Inter-agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT), a program focused on empowering science and applications by integrating data, technology and people together, is building an adaptive framework to integrate research applications and datasets into an operations context for further research.
This research-to-operations (RTO) framework consists of standards and guidelines that support researchers and data providers during the development phase to enable integration and interoperability of components supporting operations. These standards include open science standards to increase replicability and openness, using several metadata standards to catalog datasets, structuring data for machine accessibility, software unit and integration testing, dockerization of software for continuous integration, and documentation of software for useability. These standards will be provided for popular scientific data formats and programming languages with overarching interoperability standards to integrate individual pieces for large-scale applications. Lastly, with the adherence of the RTO framework, operational cases can be rapidly deployed on clusters or the cloud through dockerization. With the RTO framework operational context involved early within development cycle, research is made operational, increasing the adoption of innovative technologies that advance the current and future use of Earth science applications.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMIN24A..06M
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- 1912 Data management;
- preservation;
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- INFORMATICS;
- 1930 Data and information governance;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1982 Standards;
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- 1998 Workflow;
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