TESViS: An Integrated Data Platform for Exploring, Visualizing, and Subsetting Land Products for Terrestrial Ecology Research

Rupesh Shrestha,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  shresthar@ornl.gov
Jerrold Williams,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  williamsjr@ornl.gov
Bruce E Wilson,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  wilsonbe@ornl.gov
Daine Wright,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  wrightdm@ornl.gov
Chris Lindsley,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  lindsleycj@ornl.gov
Yaxing Wei,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  weiy@ornl.gov (Presenter)

Earth science data from both satellite observations and modeling efforts, such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), and Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), and Daymet, are valuable resources for terrestrial ecology research. The sheer scale of these data products, in terms of spatial resolution, temporal frequency, and data volume, means that the data users must spend significant time and effort retrieving and processing the data before they are useful for analysis. Additionally, the complexity of these data products, including diverse data structure, complex data quality information, and differing file formats further limit immediate use of these data products by general users. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) has developed a suite of integrated, standards-compliant tools and services for working with these diverse data products, the Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting and Visualization Services (TESViS). Data transformation, visualization, aggregation, analysis and download are simplified and easily retrieved through TESViS. This platform makes Earth Observation data more accessible and useable for multi-disciplinary research by facilitating data processing of “big data” for non-remote sensing scientists. In this poster, we describe the features of TESViS through example use cases for terrestrial ecology and highlight the recent effort of making complex Earth science data from the NASA’s Earthdata Cloud accessible to researchers through TESViS.

Poster: Poster_Shrestha_3-9_182_35.pdf 

Poster Location ID: 3-9

Presentation Type: Poster

Session: Poster Session 3

Session Date: Thu (May 11) 3:00-5:00 PM

CCE Program: Other