Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) Manager Dr. Rahul Ramachandran delivered an invited-author speech titled “Exploiting dark information resources to create new value added services to study Earth science phenomena” in the Earth Observing Data Science session at the 2016 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IGARSS) symposium held in Beijing, China. Results from Dr. Ramachandran’s ongoing Advanced Information Systems Technology research project, “Illuminating the Darkness: Exploiting untapped data and information resources in Earth Science,” were also presented at the symposium, including the latest version of the automated data curation algorithm, the rules engine to automate analysis and visualization, and the deep learning application to provide image retrieval.
