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Software For Monitoring Forest Change In Tropical West Africa Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Michael Wimberly
Software For Monitoring Forest Change In Tropical West Africa Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Michael Wimberly
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Satellite remote sensing is an essential source of data on forest landscape change that is necessary for estimating carbon stocks, assessing biodiversity, and developing conservation plans to sustain ecosystem services. The Upper Guinean Forest region of West Africa, a global biodiversity hotspot, currently lacks timely, consistent, and accurate long-term forest monitoring systems suitable for decision support. Major limitations include data gaps due to frequent cloud cover and limited satellite coverage. To address these limitations, we developed the West African Forest Degradation Data System (WAForDD) to use all available Landsat imagery to monitor forest change in the tropical forest zone of …
Software For Monitoring Forest Change In Tropical West Africa Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Michael Wimberly
Software For Monitoring Forest Change In Tropical West Africa Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Michael Wimberly
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Satellite remote sensing is an essential source of data on forest landscape change that is necessary for estimating carbon stocks, assessing biodiversity, and developing conservation plans to sustain ecosystem services. The Upper Guinean Forest region of West Africa, a global biodiversity hotspot, currently lacks timely, consistent, and accurate long-term forest monitoring systems suitable for decision support. Major limitations include data gaps due to frequent cloud cover and limited satellite coverage. To address these limitations, we developed the West African Forest Degradation Data System (WAForDD) to use all available Landsat imagery to monitor forest change in the tropical forest zone of …
Advances In The Science And Technology Of Simulating Water, Nutrient, Soil And Plant Interactions And Dynamics In Space And Time, Tim Green
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The Agricultural Ecosystems Services (AgES) distributed watershed model is being developed as a component-based model for continuous daily simulation. Current case studies use AgES to simulate space-time patterns of soil moisture and infrequent runoff events in a dryland field-scale watershed in northern Colorado, contributions of irrigated agriculture to a mixed-landuse watershed near metropolitan Denver, and tile drainage contributing to high nitrate loads in Iowa, USA. These watersheds (56 ha to 581 km2) provide comparative studies to address model complexity across various scales with different types and amounts of data. Key advances include enhanced process simulation (1) coupling plant uptake of …
Going Serverless: Evaluating The Potential Of Serverless Computing For Environmental Modeling Application Hosting, Baojia Zhang, Wes J. Lloyd, Olaf David, George Leavesley
Going Serverless: Evaluating The Potential Of Serverless Computing For Environmental Modeling Application Hosting, Baojia Zhang, Wes J. Lloyd, Olaf David, George Leavesley
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Recently serverless computing platforms have emerged that provide automatic web service hosting in the cloud. These platforms are promoted for their ability to host “micro” services to end users while seamlessly integrating key features including 24/7 high availability, fault tolerance, and automatic scaling of resources to meet user demand. Serverless Computing environments abstract the majority of infrastructure management tasks including VM/container creation, and load balancer configuration. A key benefit of serverless computing is FREE access to cloud computing resources. Many platforms provide free access for up to 1,000,000 service requests/month with 1 GB of memory for 400,000 seconds/month. Additionally, serverless …
The Agricultural Ecosystems Services (Ages) Watershed Model Integrated Into The Environmental Resources Assessment And Management System (Erams) And Cloud Services Integration Platform (Csip), Nathan Lighthart, Olaf David, Timothy R. Green, Gregory S. Mcmaster, David Arden Patterson, Mazdak Arabi, Holm Kipka
The Agricultural Ecosystems Services (Ages) Watershed Model Integrated Into The Environmental Resources Assessment And Management System (Erams) And Cloud Services Integration Platform (Csip), Nathan Lighthart, Olaf David, Timothy R. Green, Gregory S. Mcmaster, David Arden Patterson, Mazdak Arabi, Holm Kipka
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Distributing models to various users can be difficult and prone to error, and therefore may negatively reflect on the program. Model distribution typically involves users downloading and installing the model following setup instructions. However, if this step is not handled correctly, the model is not able to be used correctly. Deploying a model through a web interface allows the user to focus on running the model rather than ensuring the model is setup correctly. The eRAMS/CSIP platform is designed to provide visual tools for models to be parameterized and connected to input data (eRAMS), and run using a remote web …
The Soil Conditioning Index Model Service, Jack R. Carlson
The Soil Conditioning Index Model Service, Jack R. Carlson
AgroEnviron 2016: 10th International Symposium on Agriculture and the Environment - May 23-27, 2016
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Development Of A Web Application For Continuous Analysis Of Many Cameras (Cam2), Anurag Anjaria, Dr. Yung-Hsiang Lu, Young-Sol Koh, Charles Hansen
Development Of A Web Application For Continuous Analysis Of Many Cameras (Cam2), Anurag Anjaria, Dr. Yung-Hsiang Lu, Young-Sol Koh, Charles Hansen
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
There are tens of thousands of web cameras located around the world and publicly available on the Internet. The images captured by these cameras contain data relating to our living environment such as traffic patterns, weather and crowd movement. Researchers can capture this data using image analysis techniques on the video and image from these cameras. However, there is a lack of a single, unified repository of all the public cameras on the Internet; this, coupled with the computational demands of image analysis means there is a need for a tool to help researchers perform large-scale image analyis on many …
Authentication In Saas By Implementing Double Security Measures, Muhamet Gërvalla, Shkëlqim Berisha
Authentication In Saas By Implementing Double Security Measures, Muhamet Gërvalla, Shkëlqim Berisha
UBT International Conference
Growing trends of services offered in the field of Cloud Computing are increasing on daily basis. These services are divided into three models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Despite this, much interest is shown to the usage of Software as a Service (SaaS) model. This model offers the usage of software’s that are hosted in Cloud that can be accessed by using web browsers or through “thin client”. Security and privacy are two most important problems that can occur in this model. Authentication through password is one of the …
The Impacts Of Cloud Computing And Big Data Applications On Developing World-Based Smallholder Farmers, Nir Kshetri
The Impacts Of Cloud Computing And Big Data Applications On Developing World-Based Smallholder Farmers, Nir Kshetri
UBT International Conference
Cloud computing and big data applications are likely to have far-reaching and profound impacts on developing world-based smallholder farmers. Especially, the use of mobile devices to access cloud-based applications is a promising approach to deliver value to smallholder farmers in developing countries since according to the International Telecommunication Union, mobile-cellular penetration in developing countries is expected to reach 90% by the end of 2014. This article examines the contexts, mechanisms, processes and consequences associated with cloud computing and big data deployments in farming activities that could affect the lives of developing world-based smallholder farmers. We analyze the roles of big …
Modeling-As-A-Service (Maas) Using The Cloud Services Innovation Platform (Csip), Olaf David, Wes Lloyd, Ken Rojas, Mazdak Arabi, Frank Geter, James Ascough, Tim Green, G. Leavesley, Jack Carlson
Modeling-As-A-Service (Maas) Using The Cloud Services Innovation Platform (Csip), Olaf David, Wes Lloyd, Ken Rojas, Mazdak Arabi, Frank Geter, James Ascough, Tim Green, G. Leavesley, Jack Carlson
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Cloud infrastructures for modelling activities such as data processing, performing environmental simulations, or conducting model calibrations/optimizations provide a cost effective alternative to traditional high performance computing approaches. Cloud-based modelling examples emerged into the more formal notion: "Model-as-a-Service" (MaaS). This paper presents the Cloud Services Innovation Platform (CSIP) as a software framework offering MaaS. It describes both the internal CSIP infrastructure and software architecture that manages cloud resources for typical modelling tasks, and the use of CSIP's "ModelServices API" for a modelling application. CSIP's architecture supports fast and resource aware auto-scaling of computational resources. An example model service is presented: the …
The Virtual Machine (Vm) Scaler: An Infrastructure Manager Supporting Environmental Modeling On Iaas Clouds, Wes J. Lloyd, Olaf David, Mazdak Arabi, James C. Ascough Ii, Timothy R. Green, Jack R. Carlson, Ken W. Rojas
The Virtual Machine (Vm) Scaler: An Infrastructure Manager Supporting Environmental Modeling On Iaas Clouds, Wes J. Lloyd, Olaf David, Mazdak Arabi, James C. Ascough Ii, Timothy R. Green, Jack R. Carlson, Ken W. Rojas
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds provide a new medium for deployment of environmental modeling applications. Harnessing advancements in virtualization, IaaS clouds can provide dynamic scalable infrastructure to better support scientific modeling computational demands. Providing scientific modeling “as-a-service” requires dynamic scaling of server infrastructure to adapt to changing user workloads. This paper presents the Virtual Machine (VM) Scaler, an autonomic resource manager for IaaS Clouds. We have developed VM-Scaler, a REST/JSON-based web services application which supports infrastructure provisioning and management to support scientific modeling for the Cloud Services Innovation Platform (CSIP) [Lloyd et al. 2012]. VM-Scaler harnesses the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) …
Data Provisioning For The Object Modeling System (Oms), Jack R. Carlson, Olaf David, Wes J. Lloyd, George H. Leavesley, Ken W. Rojas, Timothy R. Green, Mazdak Arabi, Lucas Yaege, Hom Kipka
Data Provisioning For The Object Modeling System (Oms), Jack R. Carlson, Olaf David, Wes J. Lloyd, George H. Leavesley, Ken W. Rojas, Timothy R. Green, Mazdak Arabi, Lucas Yaege, Hom Kipka
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The Object Modelling System (OMS) platform supports initiatives to build or re-factor agro-environmental models and deploy them in different business contexts as model services on cloud computing platforms. Whether traditional desktop, client-server, or emerging cloud deployments, success especially at the enterprise level relies on stable and efficient data provisioning to the models. In this paper we describe recent experience and trends with tools and services deployed to cloud platforms. Also, systematic, sustained data stewardship and alignment with standards organizations impart stability to data provisioning efforts.
Back-End Science Model Integration For Ecological Risk Assessment, Tao Hong, Chancellor Pascale, Jonathan Flaishans, Marcia Snyder, S. Thomas Purucker
Back-End Science Model Integration For Ecological Risk Assessment, Tao Hong, Chancellor Pascale, Jonathan Flaishans, Marcia Snyder, S. Thomas Purucker
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) relies on a number of ecological risk assessment models that have been developed over 30-plus years of regulating pesticide exposure and risks under Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Endangered Species Act. Since computing technology have changed dramatically over this time period, constituent legacy models often contain algorithms based on source code with defunct dependencies and/or have been integrated with graphical user interface elements no longer compatible with current operating systems. Model migration to modern web applications creates integration challenges for back-end science model code residing on a server. An example …
Tethys: A Software Framework For Web-Based Modeling And Decision Support Applications, Norm Jones, Jim Nelson, Nathan Swain, Scott Christensen, David Tarboton, Pabitra Dash
Tethys: A Software Framework For Web-Based Modeling And Decision Support Applications, Norm Jones, Jim Nelson, Nathan Swain, Scott Christensen, David Tarboton, Pabitra Dash
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We have developed a software framework called Tethys to aid in the creation of web-based water resource modeling applications. This suite is a Python-based scripting environment that leverages open source tools for geoprocessing of spatial data, map rendering and visualization, distributed computing, and database management. The system makes it possible to deploy a calibrated, high-resolution watershed or surface water model as a web-based application for decision support. The framework provides data managements, access to computing resources, and pluggable components (e.g. plots, maps and user controls) that enable rapid development of modeling applications. We have used the system to develop prototype …
Enabling Water Science At The Cuahsi Water Data Center, Alva Couch, Richard Hooper, Jon Pollak, Marie Martin, Martin Seul
Enabling Water Science At The Cuahsi Water Data Center, Alva Couch, Richard Hooper, Jon Pollak, Marie Martin, Martin Seul
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The CUAHSI Water Data Center (WDC) is a community-governed, multi-disciplinary data center focused upon the needs of water-related science in all academic disciplines. The WDC build upon the successes of the 10-year effort to develop the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS), and looks beyond HIS toward providing next-generation water data services. In partnership with the National Science Foundation, the WDC seeks to set the standard for data publication, persistence, and reliability, by providing formal user support services, using cloud-based abstractions and services, building new and accessible user interfaces to data, and establishing and sustaining data curation processes centered around optimizing …
Hydrotam: 3d Model For Hydrodynamic And Transport Processes In Coastal Waters, Lale Balas, Aslı Numanoğlu Genç, Asu Inan
Hydrotam: 3d Model For Hydrodynamic And Transport Processes In Coastal Waters, Lale Balas, Aslı Numanoğlu Genç, Asu Inan
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
HYDROTAM is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integrated three-dimensional baroclinic numerical model that has been developed to simulate the hydrodynamic and transport processes in coastal waters. The infrastructure of the program is based on cloud computing technology. GIS platform of HYDROTAM facilitates the time consuming task of preparation of data input and output. On the model interface, all functions of the MS Silverlight framework are available to the user with a menu driven graphical user interface (GUI). The numerical model consists of hydrodynamic, transport, turbulence and wave propagation model components. In the hydrodynamic model component, the 3D Navier–Stokes equations are …
Environmental Modelling Using Cloud Computing Tools: Case Studies And Examples, L. Matejicek
Environmental Modelling Using Cloud Computing Tools: Case Studies And Examples, L. Matejicek
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Cloud computing represents an emerging computing paradigm, which offers delivering a variety of computing services in a way that has not been experienced previously. In order to develop advanced simulations, environmental modelling must be adapted to this more powerful and efficient computing tool. Traditional model calculations are taken into the sphere of interconnected data and more accessible software tools, which rationalize the way they manage their resources. Moreover, information systems such as GIS, and case-oriented software tools for data pre-processing and visualization can be accessible for a wide range of users participating in research projects. In order to document distribution …
Design Framework For Multimodal Reading Experience In Cross-Platform Computing Devices – Focus On A Digital Bible, Minjeong Kang, Juhyun Eune
Design Framework For Multimodal Reading Experience In Cross-Platform Computing Devices – Focus On A Digital Bible, Minjeong Kang, Juhyun Eune
DRS Biennial Conference Series
With the emergence of cloud computing, a diverse range of content can be read across platforms. Here, we extend our previous research (Kang and Eune 2011), where we proposed three aspects to reinforce seamless reading across different platforms: coherence, immersion, and multimodality. The reading process is classified as pre-reading, during the reading, and post-reading, where each step requires different goals, functions, and types of reading. An appropriate platform among smart phones, Tablet PCs, and PCs is chosen to play a main role at each step. In this research, we verify the design framework of our previous study by analyzing a …
Application Of Ict: Potential Of Cloud Computing Architecture, Saira Begum, Muhammad Khalid Khan
Application Of Ict: Potential Of Cloud Computing Architecture, Saira Begum, Muhammad Khalid Khan
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
Cloud computing is a massively central advancement in the technique that businesses and users devour and work on computing. It's a elementary modify to an prepared model in which applications don't subsist out their lives on a specific section of hardware and in which possessions are more supplely deployed than was the historical standard. It's a primary shift to expansion and utilization model that replaces hard-wired, proprietary associations surrounded by software components and the clients of those components with unimportant Web services and Web-based software admittance. As difficulty under the virtualization is how to allocate resources to every application on-demand …