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Session Abstract: NASA's Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture (CARA) Working Group was established at the 2018 Earth Science Data Systems Working Group (ESDSWG) annual meeting to define a reference architecture enabling discovery and analysis of big data in cloud environments. Current key activities include gathering use cases for cloud analytics, and development of the reference architecture document. The goal of this working session is to inform the ESIP community of the CARA WG's efforts to date, and solicit review and contributions to the use cases and reference document.
Session Takeaways (post-meeting): 1) Many use cases exist as to how to best use cloud services to do big data analysis. Using these the ESDSWG is building a common architecture based on these use cases. 2) Building this architecture, requires community members to integrate the works that have been done previously. 3) Identifying and assembling the building blocks for technology components that enable the evolution of data-driven, science-informed resilience plans that come with full traceability from decisions back to the underlying data and models.
