Cloud-based Data Processing System for ECCO

About this technology

Overview

The Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) global ocean state estimation system (https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov) is the premier tool for synthesizing NASA's diverse Earth system observations into a complete physical description of Earth's time-evolving full-depth ocean and sea ice system. ECCO state estimates are of particular significance to NASA because on their own, all satellite observations, although global in coverage, remain sparse in space and time relative to the inherent scales of ocean variability, and are blind to the oceans interior. With increased streams of data at better spatial resolution the scientific utility of the product is increasingly limited by 1) the inability to automate observing network ingestion and update in a rapid, robust manner, and 2) the lack of capabilities to search, and perform efficient online data analysis. ECCO-Cloud is a NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (ACCESS) project. Its goals are to tackle the two limitations by leveraging serverless cloud-based solution to automate product generation and to establish a cloud-based analytics center for the ECCO community for fast access and interactive analysis using prior NASA AIST-funded technology, the Apache Science Data Analytics Platform (https://sdap.apache.org).