CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Geospatial Discovery and Innovation
in the Era of Big Data and Compute
Shaowen Wang
CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies
CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (Primary)
Department of Computer Science
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NRC BESR Spring Meeting
April 29, 2015, Washington, DC
CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies ‘Big’ is a fuzzy and relative term!
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Business is Unusual!
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Cyberinfrastructure
Computation
Statistics
Intelligence
Geospatial data
o  Access, granularity, purpose, privacy, quality,
resolution, scale, security, speed, uncertainty, etc.
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Earth Data Science
Geo & Human
Sciences
Big
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Compute
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Geospatial Drivers for Earth Data Science
Wright, D.J. and Wang, S. 2011. “The Emergence of Spatial Cyberinfrastructure.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (14): 5488–5491
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Big Compute rGIS
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Big Collaboration
Big Problems
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Wang, S. (2010) “A CyberGIS Framework for the Synthesis of Cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and Spatial Analysis”.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(3): 535-557
Wright, D.J. and Wang, S. (2011) “The Emergence of Spatial Cyberinfrastructure”. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 108 (14): 5488–5491
Wang, S., Wilkins-Diehr, N. R., and Nyerges, T. L. (2012) “CyberGIS – Toward Synergistic Advancement of
Cyberinfrastructure and GIScience: A Workshop Summary”. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 4: 125-148
Wang, S. (2013) “CyberGIS: Blueprint for Integrated and Scalable Geospatial Software Ecosystems”. International
Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(11): 2119-2121
Liu, Y.Y., Padmanabhan, A., and Wang, S. (2015) “CyberGIS Gateway for Enabling Data-Rich Geospatial
Research and Education”. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(2): 395-40
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Collaborative Work by David Tarboton, Yan Liu, and Shaowen Wang
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Leetaru, K., Wang, S., Cao, G., Padmanabhan, A., Shook, E. 2013. “Mapping
the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter.” First Monday, 18(5),
http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4366/3654.
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Collaborative Work by Hao Hu, Tao Lin, Yan Liu, Luis F. Rodríguez, and Shaowen Wang
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies ROGER Supercomputer
(Resourcing Open Geospatial Education and Research)
for Advancing Earth Data Science @ Scale
•  ~7 petabytes of raw disk storage with high input/output (I/O)
bandwidth
•  Solid-state drives for applications demanding high dataaccess performance
•  Advanced graphics processing units for exploiting massive
parallelism in geospatial data and computing
•  Interactive visualization supported with a high-speed network
and dynamically provisioned cloud computing resource
NSF MRI: Acquisition of a National CyberGIS Facility for Computing- and Data-Intensive
Geospatial Research and Education
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Geospatial Discovery and Innovation
CyberGIS
Toolkit
CyberGIS
Gateway
GISolve
Middleware
R O G E R
www.ncsa.illinois.edu/
BlueWaters/
www.opensciencegrid.org
http://cybergis.illinois.edu
www.xsede.org
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies NSF CyberGIS Software Project
$4.43 million, Year: 2010-2015
Principal Investigator
–  Shaowen Wang
Chair of the Science Advisory Committee
–  Michael Goodchild
Co-Principal Investigators
–  Luc Anselin
–  Budhendra Bhaduri
–  Timothy Nyerges
–  Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
Project Manager
–  Anand Padmanabhan
Senior Personnel
–  Michael Goodchild
–  Sergio Rey
–  Xuan Shi
–  Marc Snir
–  E. Lynn Usery
Project Staff
–  ASU: Wenwen Li and Rob Pahle
–  ORNL: Ranga Raju Vatsavai
–  SDSC: Choonhan Youn
–  UIUC: Yan Liu and Anand
Padmanabhan
–  Graduate and undergraduate students
Industrial Partner: Esri
–  Steve Kopp and Dawn Wright
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Science of CyberGIS
•  Integration
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Science of Data
Science of complex systems
Science of information
Science of computation
•  Interoperability
•  Scalability
•  Reliability
o  Quality of services
•  Accessibility
o  User interfaces
•  Reproducibility
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Frontiers and Future Directions
•  Dynamics
•  Processes
•  Intelligence
•  Geospatial connectivity
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies National Data Service Consortium
Seidel et al. 2014
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Mission: Empower advanced digital and spatial studies
through innovation of CyberGIS technologies and applications
Key Application Domains: Agriculture and Food, Disaster and Emergency, Earth
and Environment, Energy and Water Resources, and Health and Wellness
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies CyberGIS Center’s Contributing Units
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College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental
Sciences
College of Engineering
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Geography and Geographic Information
Science
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Prairie Research Institute
School of Earth, Society, and Environment
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies CyberGIS Fellows
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Acknowledgments
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Federal Agencies
National Science Foundation
–  ACI-1443080
–  ACI-1429699
–  ACI-1047916
–  BCS-0846655
–  EAR-1239603
–  IIS-1354329
–  PHY-0621704
–  PHY-1148698
–  TeraGrid/XSEDE SES070004
n  US Geological Survey (USGS)
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Industry
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Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri)
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CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Thanks!
•  Comments / Questions?
•  Email: shaowen@illinois.edu
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