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Announcements of Opportunity are posted by JPL technical staff for the SURF@JPL program. Each AO indicates whether or not it is open to non-Caltech students. If an AO is NOT open to non-Caltech students, please DO NOT contact the mentor.
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| Project: |
Enhancing Software Tools for GIBS-in-the-Cloud and VisLabs
(JPL AO No. 14228)
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| Disciplines: | Computer Science, Earth Science | ||||||||
| Mentor: |
Joe Roberts,
(JPL),
Joe.T.Roberts@jpl.nasa.gov, |
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| Background: | NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) provides a full-resolution image archive and access services for over 1000 NASA Earth science data products. Its image server component, OnEarth, is an open source image processing and server software package developed at JPL. OnEarth specializes in rapidly serving tiled raster imagery and GIS data over the web to client applications such as NASA Worldview and the State of the Oceans (SOTO) visualization tool at PO.DAAC. To achieve its high-level of performance, all tiled imagery is pre-generated and sourced from existing imagery provided by NASA’s distributed active archive centers (DAACs). GIBS recently transitioned from an on-premises system to the AWS cloud. However, not all parts of the GIBS system have been optimized for the cloud and there are several shortcomings. GIBS is investigating novel ways to better serve and visualize its data sets, including the use of vector graphics, 3D Tiles, and augmented/mixed/virtual reality. VisLabs is GIBS research and development effort to design these new solutions. | ||||||||
| Description: | The intern will join the GIBS-in-the-Cloud and VisLabs teams to help enhance software tools used by the project. Tasks include: Working with the team to update OnEarth to support Zen JPEG imagery, which will save a good deal of storage space with geostationary imagery; develop a translator for GIBS tile services to newer OGC APIs; researching the dynamic data visualization technology landscape; and prototyping 3D/4D visualization services, taking advantage of JPL's dataSPACE visualization facility. If time permits, we would also like to investigate potential software and system architectures that enable rapid visualization of Earth science data in various forms, such as 3D Tiles and augmented/mixed/virtual reality. | ||||||||
| References: | https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov | ||||||||
| Student Requirements: | Computer programming, API development, Python, JavaScript, C, C#, GIS, AR/VR development, data science, data visualization, Earth science | ||||||||
| Location / Safety: | Project building and/or room locations: . Student will need special safety training: . | ||||||||
| Programs: |
This AO can be done under the following programs:
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