The document discusses the history and challenges of environmental cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF). It notes that in 2000, NSF began funding large-scale infrastructure projects and established a panel to advise on cyberinfrastructure development. For environmental research, challenges include the global scope of data, complexity of systems, data volume, and need for long-term data collection and modeling. The document also outlines needs in environmental education like digital libraries, data tools, and networking to support research. Key challenges are managing distributed observing systems, ensuring data standards and access, and developing modeling frameworks that integrate different earth systems over long periods of time.
15. Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Spatial data challenges: e.g. Merging digital imagery with digital data Compute cycles Networks, software, data manipulation, data management, training Cyberinfrastructure for discipline science
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