Accessing Earth system science data and applications through high-bandwidth networks

Author

Vetter, R. ; Ali, M. ; Daily, M. ; Gabrynowicz, J. ; Narumalani, S. ; Nygard, K. ; Perrizo, W. ; Ram, P. ; Reichenbach, S. ; Seielstad, G.A. ; White, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Oper. Res., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

793

Lastpage

805

Abstract

We discuss gigabit network applications enabled by “Mission to Planet Earth”, an international effort to monitor the Earth as a system. We describe the design of a network architecture to support applications developed as part of this program; introduce a new component, public access resource centers (PARCs); and discuss how PARCs would facilitate access by users outside the traditional research community. We also describe how a particular class of users, agriculture users, might benefit from access to data collected as part of the Mission to Planet Earth program and delivered in a value-added form to them by a so-called AgPARC. The suggested architecture requires the deployment of high-bandwidth networks

Keywords

agriculture; broadband networks; environmental science computing; information centres; information networks; network topology; remote sensing; AgPARC; EOSDIS; Earth system science data; Mission to Planet Earth; agriculture users; gigabit network applications; high-bandwidth networks; network architecture; public access resource centers; traditional research community; value-added form; Computer science; Earth Observing System; Extraterrestrial measurements; Geoscience; Monitoring; Neodymium; Niobium; Planets; Satellites; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.391756

Filename

391756