Title
Architecting Climate Change Data Infrastructure for Nevada.
Abstract
The NSF EPSCoR-funded Nevada Climate Change Project seeks to create a central, reusable, extensible infrastructure that can be used to collect geospatial climate data and information. Housing climate data for Nevada and its surrounding regions during the initial construction phases, the newly created system (with its central component: the Nevada Climate Change Portal) will ultimately be capable of storing any kind of geospatial data for multiple types of research, education and outreach activities. In order to meet the varied needs of the climate researchers, educators, students, and policy makers involved in the project, it was necessary to research and implement a new system architecture. The novelty of this architecture is that it addresses, in an extensible and robust manner, the end-to-end needs of all project stakeholders, implementing multiple sub-levels of architectural design that incorporate data acquisition from sensor networks, data storage using high-performance geospatially-enabled databases. asset tracking and management to improve data validation and verification, metadata collection and management, data curation, and advanced web-based data management and retrieval. The paper describes the proposed system architecture, discusses the major design challenges encountered, addresses some implementation points, and highlights the capabilities of the Nevada Climate Change Portal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-22056-2_38
ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Climate change,infrastructure,system architecture,web services,sensor network,climate research,education,public policy
Data science,Geospatial analysis,Metadata,Architecture,Systems engineering,Computer science,Project stakeholder,Data curation,Systems architecture,Web service,Data management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
83
1865-1348
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.77
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael J. McMahon Jr.141.54
Sergiu Dascalu236279.10
Frederick C. Harris Jr.354778.86
Scotty Strachan481.78
Franco Biondi561.66