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Towards Collaborative Exploration and Analysis of Big Data from Mars: A Noachis Terra Case Study

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More and more satellite data are being collected from the planet Mars. The sheer size of this ‘Big Data’ asks for new access and analysis methods to be developed. We present a novel approach towards collaboratively exploring and analyzing Big Data from Mars. The Noachis Terra region on Mars was selected for a Case Study. Available Context Camera (CTX) and Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) data were processed and analyzed. A web service named ‘PlanetServer’ is under development, allowing for collaborative exploration and analysis of Mars Big Data. We conclude that the infrastructure is advancing but more work is needed towards integration.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the two reviewers, Monica Pondrelli and Christoph Waldmann for their constructive comments. Achim Geleßus is thanked for granting us access to the CLAMV (Computational Laboratories for Analysis, Modeling and Visualization) HPC cluster at Jacobs University Bremen. We are grateful to the L-SIS group at Jacobs for valuable support throughout the PhD project and the overall work. Jennifer Eidswick, from the Fremdsprachenzentrum Bremen, is thanked for her English language coaching for key parts of the publication. The present work has been carried out within the FP7 EarthServer (EU FP7-INFRA grant no. 283610).

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    Jelmer H. P. Oosthoek, Angelo P. Rossi & Vikram Unnithan

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  1. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

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    Helge Meggers

  3. School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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Oosthoek, J.H.P., Rossi, A.P., Unnithan, V. (2015). Towards Collaborative Exploration and Analysis of Big Data from Mars: A Noachis Terra Case Study. In: Lohmann, G., Meggers, H., Unnithan, V., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Notholt, J., Bracher, A. (eds) Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13865-7_25

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