DescriptionTools enabling and simplifying data access, subsetting, visualization, and early-analysis are useful to Earth data users across a wide range of communities. In today's environment of quickly evolving computing, users need nimble tools that:
- Function across multiple types of data, including data the tool was not originally designed to support
- Integrate features presently found across different tools
- Apply one or more tools' capabilities to data stored in multiple locations (ie: downloaded to a hard drive as well as in cloud)
- Subset, parse, and/or merge data from multiple sources to analysis-ready formats that also conserve data volume to limit egress costs
In this session, we will interactively explore current functionality of several popular data-oriented tools with a focus on suborbital (non-satellite) Earth observations. The variety of capabilities, backend requirements to support functional needs, and some individual tools’ planned (or idealized) next steps will be discussed. Our interactive conversation will continue as attendees formulate a “wish list” of functionalities and enabling concepts and technologies (eg: metadata, formats, protocols, and data governance standards) to envision an idealized future state that consolidates several (though perhaps not all) existing tools.
AudienceScience data users (especially but not limited to suborbital data); data managers and stewards; data services and tools developers who want to voice needs and provide input
Connection to ThemeMany tools have been built/sustained by discipline-specific groups or entities, and the notion of tool consolidation almost literally requires bridging the functional capacities of the tools themselves, as well as the technical/developmental expertise of the tool makers/maintainers. This “bridging” also includes making connections across the various science communities using such tools.
Value to ParticipantsVoice your needs, contribute opinions and professional perspectives on needs, challenges, and limitations to both current tools and plans you hear (or have heard) discussed for the future.
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