URL
BibTeX DOI
Abstract. We make a case for "planetary computing" -- infrastructure to handle the ingestion, transformation, analysis and publication of global data products for furthering environmental science and enabling better informed policy-making. We draw on our experiences as a team of computer scientists working with environmental scientists on forest carbon and biodiversity preservation, and classify existing solutions by their flexibility in scalably processing geospatial data, and also how well they support building trust in the results via traceability and reproducibility. We identify research gaps in the intersection of computing and environmental science around how to handle continuously changing datasets that are often collected across decades and require careful access control rather than being fully open access.
Authors. Patrick Ferris, Michael Dales, Sadiq Jaffer, Amelia Holcomb, Eleanor Toye Scott, Thomas Swinfield, Alison Eyres, Andrew Balmford, David A Coomes, Srinivasan Keshav and Anil Madhavapeddy
See Also. This publication was part of my Planetary Computing project.
Previous Revisions. There are also earlier revisions of this paper available below. Please cite only the latest version of the paper above where possible.
|
(Older v1) A Case for Planetary Computing |
News Updates
» Discuss the Bastion paper.
» Keynoted at Lambda Days on Programming for the Planet.
» Revision of planetary computing preprint.» On the BBC briefly about the Dawn supercomputer.» Keynoted at ICFP 2023 on Functional Programming for the Planet.» Preprint of planetary computing paper.