EarthCube is an ongoing effort to frame the research benefits of an integrated cyberinfrastructure to house data and information across the geosciences. The group has just released a white paper under the auspices of the Open Geospatial Consortium to outline seven data-intensive and cross-disciplinary science scenarios that would benefit from such a robust and adaptable computing platform.
The seven scenarios are:
- Landslide Forecasts
- Understanding the Earth’s Interior
- Adaptive Sensing and Model-based Feedback Control for an Agricultural Observatory
- Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning
- Polar Oceanography and Climate Change
- Contaminant Transport
- Integrated Disaster Risk Assessment
The white paper summarizes each scenario and provides details on the common technical and non-technical cyberinfrastructure requirements.
You can download and view the white paper here.
