The PIs develop a conceptual architecture for the EarthCube program. The conceptual architecture will serve as the blueprint for the definition, construction, and deployment of both existing and new components to ensure that they can be unified and integrated into a evolutionary national infrastructure for EarthCube. They intend to create a concept that incorporates findings and requirements from ongoing EarthCube activities as well as other cross-agency Earth Science informatics efforts. The architecture models will be a roadmap for building an extensible and sustainable EarthCube system that facilitates new science and inspires substantive participation of a broad spectrum of geoscientists. The project team is led by a group of computer scientists from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and private industry that has extensive experience and a proven track record leading the architecture, design and development of complex and data intensive science data systems. They will specifically focus on the development of a guiding architecture report and specification.
The results of this EarthCube architecture study can intellectually contribute to other scientific and agency efforts as they are studying new architectural models to address scientific data management and discovery in the big data era.