NASA satellite data incorporated into OpenNEX
include global views of drought conditions. Green regions in this map of July
2012 are areas with more vegetation than an average July (2000-2013); red
regions have less vegetation than average. Regions in black have no data due to
clouds and snow.
Image Credit: NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
NASA
is launching two challenges to give the public an opportunity to create
innovative ways to use data from the agency’s Earth science satellites.
The challenges will use the Open NASA Earth Exchange. OpenNEX is a data,
supercomputing and knowledge platform where users can share modeling and
analysis codes, scientific results, knowledge and expertise to solve big data
challenges in the Earth sciences. A component of the NASA Earth Exchange,
OpenNEX provides users a large collection of climate and Earth science satellite
data sets, including global land surface images, vegetation conditions, climate
observations and climate projections.
“OpenNEX provides the general public with easy access to an integrated Earth
science computational and data platform,” said Rama Nemani, principal scientist
for the NEX project at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
“These challenges allow citizen scientists to realize the value of NASA data
assets and offers NASA new ideas on how to share and use that data.”
The first "ideation" stage of the challenge, which runs July 1 through Aug.
1, offers as much as $10,000 in awards for ideas on novel uses of the datasets.
The second "builder" stage, beginning in August, will offer between $30,000 and
$50,000 in awards for the development of an application or algorithm that
promotes climate resilience using the OpenNEX data, based on ideas from the
first stage of the challenge. NASA will announce the overall challenge winners
in December.
NASA's OpenNEX challenge addresses a number of White House initiatives,
including Open Data, Big Data and Climate Data. These initiatives advance
national goals to address climate change impacts on economic growth, health and
livelihood, and include the use of competitions and challenges to foster
regional innovation.
“NASA is an innovation leader in developing high-quality data covering all
parts of our planet that can be used to make a difference in people's lives,”
said Tsengdar Lee, program manager in the Earth Science Division of the Science
Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “NASA is committed to
sharing that knowledge freely with the global community.”
The challenges are managed by NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative
Innovation (CoECI). CoECI was established in coordination with the Office of
Science and Technology Policy to advance NASA’s open innovation efforts and
extend that expertise to other federal agencies. The challenges are released on
the NASA Innovation Pavilion, one of the CoECI platforms available to NASA team
members, through its contract with InnoCentive, Inc.
To educate citizen scientists on how the data on OpenNEX can be used, NASA is
releasing a series of online video lectures and hands-on lab modules. To view
this material, and for information on registering for the challenges, visit:
OpenNEX is hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and available to the
public through a Space Act Agreement.
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of
satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. NASA
develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems
with long-term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our
planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global
community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world
that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.
For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014,
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Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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