Presentation: GeoEDF: A Framework for Designing and Executing Reproducible Geospatial Research Workflows in Science Gateways

08 Jul 2022 | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Central to most geospatial research workflows are a series of data wrangling steps that need to be completed before the necessary data for a particular simulation model is available.  For instance, a hydrologist developing a new streamflow prediction model may need to acquire...

MyGeoHub Semi Annual Newsletter June 2021

10 Jun 2021 | Contributor(s): Carol Song

SIMPLE-G US Web Application

11 Sep 2018 | Contributor(s): Jungha Woo, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Jaewoo Shin

SIMPLE-G US is the US version of the SIMPLE-G

2017 GABBs Project Highlights

11 Feb 2018 | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This document highlights the GABBs project activities and accomplishments in 2017. GABBs is a National Science Foundation supported Data Infrastructure Building Blocks implementation project that has extended the HUBzero software stack with geospatial data and...

Cloud-enabling a Collaborative Research Platform: The GABBs Story

26 Oct 2017 | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Rob Campbell, Derrick Kearney, Leif Delgass, Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carolyn A Ellis, Carol Song

Modern cyberinfrastructures typically involve tightly integrated compute, storage and web application resources. They also form the basis of science gateways, which add their own science-specific processing or visualization capabilities. While some science gateways are intended as the central...

An open source geospatial cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration and broader engagement

26 Oct 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Solving complex global problems demands that researchers from different disciplines work together, and their analytical tools, models and datasets interoperate. This is especially true in the context of sustainability. For instance, multiple goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development...

MyGeoHub Geospatial Gateway

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Lan Zhao, Rob Campbell, Derrick Kearney, I Luk Kim, Jaewoo Shin, Larry Biehl, Wei Wan, Carol Song

MyGeoHub is a science gateway for researchers working with geospatial data. Based on the HUBzero cyberinfrastructure framework, it provides general-purpose software modules enabling geospatial data management, processing and visualization. Termed “GABBs” (Geospatial Data Analysis...

Extending Gateways into the Field: Geospatial Extensions and Remote Data Services

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rob Campbell, Lan Zhao, Rajesh Kalyanam, Carol Song, Larry Biehl

Science gateways are generally accessed via web browsers from workstation or laptop computers. However , activities such as fieldwork and data collection have prompted an increasing call for new methods of access using a wide range of mobile and specialized devices. Our work to extend the HUBzero...

Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable Agriculture and Use of the World's Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century

19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Laura C Bowling, Keith Cherkauer, Matthew Huber, David R Johnson, Carol Song, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.

GABBs - Reusable Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks for Science Gateways

31 May 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Rajesh Kalyanam, Larry Biehl, Rob Campbell, Leif Delgass, Derrick Kearney, Wei Wan, Jaewoo Shin, I Luk Kim, Carolyn A Ellis

Science gateways have gained wide adoption in recent years as an effective platform for a lower barrier entry to computational resources, research collaboration, dissemination of scientific data, applications and publications, online education, and community engagement. Although multiple portal...

Hydroglobe Tool

27 Apr 2017 | Tools | Contributor(s): Adnan Rajib, I Luk Kim, Jaewoo Shin, Venkatesh Merwade, Lan Zhao, Jack A Smith, Carol Song

Hydroglobe Tool in Jupyter Notebook

2016 GABBs Project Highlights

26 Feb 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a document that highlights the new development  and engagement activities of the GABBs project in 2016. This DIBBs implementation project develops geospatial data analysis building blocks in the HUBzero Scientific Collaboration Platform to enable researchers and educators to create...

Demonstration of the Crop Calendar Prototype using PyMapLib

12 Feb 2017 | Animations | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This short video demonstrates the concept of a crop calendar tool. This is only an early prototype. Further development will be necessary to meet the user requirements.

Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools

10 Nov 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza

This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...

PyMapLib for Rapid Development of Geospatial Data Analysis Tools

02 Aug 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lan Zhao, Jaewoo Shin, Shandian Zhe, Carol Song

This is the presentation at CyberGIS 2016 conference introducing pyMapLib, a generic Python mapping library developed as part of the NSF funded GABBS project.

Integrating HUBzero and iRODS: Geospatial Data Management for Collaborative Scientific Research (iRODS User Group Meeting, 2016)

09 Jun 2016 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Rob Campbell, Sam Wilson, Pascal Meunier, Lan Zhao, Betsy A Hillery, Carol Song

Geospatial data is now increasingly used with tools in diverse fields such as agronomy, hydrology and sociology to gain a better understanding of scientific data. Funded by the NSF DIBBS program, the GABBS project seeks to create reusable building blocks aiding researchers in adding geospatial...

FLAT: Fine-scale Land Allocation Tool

15 Apr 2016 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jingyu Song, Michael S Delgado, Paul V. Preckel, Shandian Zhe, Ian James Campbell, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Open access user interface FLAT: designed for fine-scale global land use estimation, display, and comparison.

Weather Data Explorer

10 Dec 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

An interactive application for accessing and visualizing Winter Weather Database (Wintx) for the INDOT areas

AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with Python Maps Library Demo

01 Dec 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Larry Biehl

Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

Future HUBzero Support for Publication and DOI (movie)

12 Oct 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This movie demonstrates the future HUBzero support for Publication and DOI, linked to live tools.

GABBs Python Maps Library: PyMapLib

09 Oct 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lan Zhao, Jaewoo Shin, Carol Song

As a part of the NSF funded Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks (GABBs) project, PyMapLib is designed as a generic framework for geospatial data visualization to support scientific computation and data tools. Based on a diverse set of use cases, the primary goal of PyMapLib is to lower the...

The GABBs Report - Building Geospatial Capability in HUBzero

15 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...

iData Cheat Sheet

19 Jun 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song

This document is a quick note that guides new iData users through the steps of registering a hub account, creating a new dataset, uploading some files, and sharing with others.

AgMIP Data Aggregator: Leveraging Globus Online and HUBzero to Make Global Spatial Data Accessible

10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Hongjun Choi, Steven Clark

As part of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP, http://www.agmip.org), the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison group ran a suite of global climate models and crop models to estimate historical and future changes in yields for crops under different...

Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...