About the VEDA project
Background and vision of the VEDA project
About
Visualization Exploration and Data Analysis (VEDA) is an ecosystem of tools and services built with the goal to provide a redeployable and unified open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and GIS capabilities with NASA data on the cloud.
Developed through a collaboration between NASA IMPACT, Development Seed, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Element 84, Indiana University, International Interactive Computing Collaboration (2i2c), Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project, NASA Science Managed Cloud Environment (SMCE), and NASA Mission Cloud Platform (MCP), VEDA significantly reduces the barriers to accessing Earth science data and the computational resources needed for exploring and processing the petabyte-scale Earth data archives in the cloud. VEDA’s achievement exemplifies the core principles of NASA’s Open-Source Science Initiative (OSSI), showcasing commitment to promoting transparent, accessible, and collaborative scientific research.
Read more about the history of VEDA in this blog post.
Goals
- Leverage existing open source components (NASA-MAAP, Dashboard, Cumulus, Pangeo, STAC, etc) to assemble interoperable ecosystem of tools
- Maximize the capabilities offered by data and compute on the cloud
- Provide services for future mission data processing
- Provide a platform for new priorities and directives: NASA’s Earth Action, NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program, and other priority initiatives
Stakeholder Benefits
- General Public: Interactive stories
- Scientist: scientific (visual) analysis and communication
- Data producers/Researchers: processing and self publishing
- TOPS: summer schools and competitions
- Applied science/Decision makers: geospatial analysis and communication
- Communication: Interactive storytelling
Overview
