Giovanni Current and Future—Analysis Ready, Cloud Ready

Giovanni (Geospatial Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure), developed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), allows discovery, visualization, analysis and access of satellite and model data. As of today, it supports over 1900 variables in 82 measurement groups over 8 discipline areas. Since its first release in 2004, over 1700 peer-reviewed publications in different disciplines have cited Giovanni in their research activities.

Giovanni’s key features include basic functions for data analysis and visualization, data provenance, data reformatting and more. Giovanni users can discover, analyze and visualize hundreds of products from 6 different Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAAC), as well as intercompare these products with each other, and model data such as North American/Global/Famine Early Warning Systems Network Land Data Assimilation System (NL/GL/FLDAS), Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA)-x, etc.

Just like any other enterprise application, Giovanni also faces the big data challenge, such as: increased data variables, data volumes and requests for extremely long time series data. This presentation will demonstrate how GES DISC has been evolving Giovanni to address these challenges while providing capabilities not present in the current on-premises software application.