Helen Conover

Biography

Helen Conover, a principal research scientist with the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Information Technology and Systems Center (UAH ITSC), has over twenty-five years of experience in Earth science data systems, since leading development of the Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center ((MSFC DAAC) component of the distributed Information Management System for Version 0 of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) in the early 1990’s. Conover currently works on several Earth science informatics projects funded by NASA and NOAA.

Research Interests

Earth science informatics, data and information system standards, science data usability

Posters

Mission management tools poster A Mission Management Application Suite for Airborne Science Operations (AGU 2011)
NASA field campaigns poster A Survey of NASA's Tropical Atmospheric Research Field Campaigns (AGU 2009)
Art-inspired Presentation of Earth Science Research (AGU Fall Meeting 2016) Art-inspired Presentation of Earth Science Research (AGU Fall Meeting 2016)
Cloud Native Data Processing and Visualizations Techniques for Earth Science Data (AGU Fall Meeting 2019) Cloud Native Data Processing and Visualizations Techniques for Earth Science Data (AGU Fall Meeting 2019)
Coastal Research at ITSC Poster Coastal Research at the Information Technology and Systems Center
Talkoot poster Create Collaboratories for Earth Science using Talkoot (ESIP Meeting 2012)
Curated Data Albums poster Curated Data Albums for Earth Science Case Studies (ESIP Meeting 2012)
AMS 2013 curated data albums poster Curated Data Albums for Hurricane Case Studies (AMS 2013)
Data Albums: A Synthesis Engine for Studying Events (ESDSWG 2014) Data Albums: A Synthesis Engine for Studying Events (ESDSWG 2014)
Data Albums: A synthesis engine to support case study and climatology analysis (ESIP Winter 2014) Data Albums: A synthesis engine to support case study and climatology analysis (ESIP Winter 2014)
LEAD ESML poster Data Interchange in a Grid Environment: The Use of the Earth Science Markup Language (ESML) in the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)
Data System for HS3 Field Campaign (AGU 2014) Data System for HS3 Field Campaign (AGU 2014)
Disaster Preparedness & Event Analysis (ESIP Summer 2014) Disaster Preparedness & Event Analysis (ESIP Summer 2014)
DISOVER poster DISCOVER (AGU 2008)
Emergent Science poster Emergent Science - a new way forward?
SCOOP poster Enabling Coastal Researcn and Management with Advanced Information Technology
Sensor Webs poster Enabling Earth Science Research and Management with Sensor Webs
Enhancements to NASA’s Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE)
Event-Driven and Collaboration Technologies for Earth Science Research (Earth Cube 2014) Event-Driven and Collaboration Technologies for Earth Science Research (Earth Cube 2014)
Event-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Technologies Supporting the Disaster Life Cycle (AGU 2014) Event-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Technologies Supporting the Disaster Life Cycle (AGU 2014)
Event-Driven Data Delivery (ED3) Technologies for Severe Weather Research GHRC Innovations: Moving Technology from Research to Production (ESIP Winter 2014) Event-Driven Data Delivery (ED3) Technologies for Severe Weather Research GHRC Innovations: Moving Technology from Research to Production (ESIP Winter 2014)
GHRC poster 2016
Global Hydrology Resource Center (Suomi NPP 2014) Global Hydrology Resource Center (Suomi NPP 2014)
GPM-GV poster GPM Ground Validation Field Campaigns Collaboration and Data Management Tools (ESIP 2013)
GRIP Collaboration Portal: Information Management for a Hurricane Field Campaign
HS3 Information System (AGU Winter 2015) HS3 Information System (AGU Winter 2015)
Karma poster Instant Karma: Provenance at the AMSR-E SIPS
Interactive 3D Visualization of Diverse Datasets (AGU Fall Meeting 2018) Interactive 3D Visualization of Diverse Datasets (AGU Fall Meeting 2018)
LANCE poster Introducing NASA's Near-real-time Processing Capability for Aqua AMSR-E: A Component of LANCE (Land Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS)
ISO Lineage Metadata poster ISO Lineage Meadata at the AMSR-E SIPS (ESDSWG 2012)
Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Data System (AGU Fall Meeting 2016) Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Data System (AGU Fall Meeting 2016)
Near Real-time Distribution of ISS LIS Lightning Data (AGU Fall Meeting 2018) Near Real-time Distribution of ISS LIS Lightning Data (AGU Fall Meeting 2018)
Near Real-Time Distribution of Validated ISS LIS Lightning Data from LANCE available at the GHRC DAAC (AGU Fall Meeting 2019) Near Real-Time Distribution of Validated ISS LIS Lightning Data from LANCE available at the GHRC DAAC (AGU Fall Meeting 2019)
Planned HS3 Data System poster (HS3 science team meeting 2014) Planned HS3 Data System (HS3 science team meeting 2014)
NASA field campaigns poster Pre-Mission, Mission and Post Mission Data Management for NASA Field Campaigns (AGU 2011)
Provenance collection and display poster Provenance Collection and Display for the AMSR-E SIPS (ESDSWG 2011)
Provenance collection and display poster Provenance Collection and Display for the AMSR-E SIPS (ESIP Meeting 2012)
Real Time Data Management Tools for GPM Ground Validation Field Campaigns (ESIP Winter 2014) Real Time Data Management Tools for GPM Ground Validation Field Campaigns (ESIP Winter 2014)
SANDS poster SANDS: Sediment Analysis Network for Decision Support (AGU 2009)
Science on Drupal (ESDSWG 2014) Science on Drupal (ESDSWG 2014)
SKIF poster SKIF: Semantic Knowledge Integration Framework (AGU 2007)
SMART-ODM poster SMART-ODM Project: Sensor Management for Applied Research Technologies for On Demand Modeling
Stimulating Remote Sensing Education through Knowledge Augmentation Services (AMS 2017) Stimulating Remote Sensing Education through Knowledge Augmentation Services (AMS 2017)
RTMM poster The 2nd Generation Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM) Development (AGU 2009)
VISAGE Framework for Interactive Exploration of Diverse Precipitation Data (ESTF 2019) VISAGE Framework for Interactive Exploration of Diverse Precipitation Data (ESTF 2019)
VISAGE: Visualization for Integrated Satellite, Airborne and Ground-based data Exploration (AGU Fall Meeting 2017) VISAGE: Visualization for Integrated Satellite, Airborne and Ground-based data Exploration (AGU Fall Meeting 2017)
Visualize, Discover, and Analyze: A Data Center’s Innovative Services for Addressing Observing System Challenges (AMS 2017) Visualize, Discover, and Analyze: A Data Center’s Innovative Services for Addressing Observing System Challenges (AMS 2017)

Projects

Products

HyDRO - GHRC Data Search Capability
HyDRO in use at GHRC

HyDRO (the Hydrologic Data search, Retrieval, and Order system) allows users to search the GHRC database for specific data sets.

Mobile Applications using Collaborative Environments for the Transplant Professionals
TransplantPro provides health care professionals with mobile transplant tools

The mobile app "TransplantPro" allows transplant professionals to connect to other transplant professionals. Most commonly used transplant calculators are built into this app.

Provenance Tools
Provenance Tools help with the collection and display of data products

Several provenance collection and display tools have resulted from provenance research at ITSC in conjunction with the AMSR-E SIPS.The Earth science Library for Processing History (ELPH) i

Brochures

GHRC brochure 2014 - outside GHRC brochure 2014

Biblio

A Distributed Knowledge Extraction Framework Based on Semantic Web Services
A Framework for Sensor Data and Product Processing
A New Perspective on EOSDIS Data Management: The LIS SCF
A Next Generation Information System for Earth Science Data
A Prototype for Earth Science Data on Demand
A Survey of NASA's Tropical Atmospheric Research Field Campaigns
A Syntactic and Semantic Metadata Solution for Intelligent Applications in Earth Science
A Ten Year Record of Space Based Lightning Measurements
ADaM Services: Scientific Data Mining in the Service Oriented Architecture Paradigm
Advanced Information Management Services in SCOOP, an IOOS Testbed
Algorithm Development and Mining (ADaM) System for Earth Science Applications
An Information Infrastructure for Coastal Models and Data
An Integrated Approach for Accessing Multiple Datasets through LANCE
An Interoperable Environment for Geospatial Data
An Overview of the Data Holdings and Information Systems Technologies of the Global Hydrology Resource Center
Applying the Karma Provenance tool to NASA’s AMSR-E data production stream
Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization: an End-to-End System Perspective
Bird's Eye View of Data Mining in Geosciences
Collaboration Portals for NASA’s Airborne Field Campaigns (invited)
Collaboration Tools and Technologies for Scientific Field Campaigns
Coordinating Aircraft During NASA Airborne Science Field Campaigns
Create Collaboratories for Earth Science using Talkoot
Customizable Search Engine with Semantic and Resource Aggregation Capability
Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Collaborative Coastal Research
Data Assimilation Decision Making Using Sensor Web Enablement
Data Interchange in a Grid Environment: The Use of the Earth Science Markup Language (EMSL) in the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)
Data Interchange in a Grid Environment: The Use of the Earth Science Markup Language (ESML) in the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)
Data Mining on the TeraGrid
Data Mining: Atmospheric Science Case Study
Demo III Collaborative workflows in earth science data mining
DISCOVER: A Service Oriented Approach to Managing Earth Science Data Across Distributed Project-specific Repositories
Discovering and Accessing Data from the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
DISCOVERing Online Data and Services
Distributed Services Technology for Earth Science Data Processing
Distributed Technologies in a Data Pool
Earth Science Markup Language
Earth Science Markup Language (ESML): a solution for scientific data-application interoperability problem
Earth Science Markup Language: A Solution for Generic Access to Heterogeneous Data Sets
Earth Science Markup Language: A Solution to Address Data Format Heterogeneity Problems in Atmospheric Sciences
Earth Science Markup Language: A Solution to the Earth Science Data Format Heterogeneity Problem
Earth Science Markup Language: An Overview
Earth Science Markup Language: An update
Emergent Science: Accelerating the scientific process via simple collaborative interactions
Emergent Science: Solving Complex Science Problems via Collaborations
Enhancements to the V0 IMS Client/Server Message Protocol
EVE: An Environment for On-Orbit Data Mining
Evolving Sensor Web Protocols for Sensor Data Management
Federation Data POND Ecology
Flexible Earth Science Data Mining Architecture
Flexible Framework for Mining Meteorological Data
Flexible Processing at the AMSR-E SIPS
Framework for Mining and Analysis of Space Science Data
GLIDER: Earth Science Image Visualization and Analysis
Global Hydrology Resource Center: A Foundation for Research Using Earth Observation Data
GRIP Collaboration Portal: Information Management for a Hurricane Field Campaign
HLA-based Distributed Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations Using Grid Technology
Information Systems Research at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center
Initiating Collaboration Among Organ Transplant Professionals Through Web Portals and Mobile Applications
Innovative Technologies for Sciences Data Processing
Instant Karma Status Update: Provenance at the AMSR-E SIPS
Instant Karma: Accessing Provenance Information for AMSR-E Science Data Products
Instant Karma: Collecting Provenance for AMSR-E
Instrumenting Earth Science Applications for OPM-Driven Provenance
Intelligent Assimilation of Satelite Data into a Forecast Model Using Sensor Web Processes and Protocols
Interchange Technology for Applications to facilitate generic access to heterogeneous data formats
Introducing LANCE, NASA’s Near-real-time Processing Capability for Aqua AMSR-E
Introducing NASA's Near-real-time Processing Capability for Aqua AMSR-E
Introducing Provenance Capture into a Legacy Data System
ISO Lineage Metadata at the AMSR-E SIPS
Key Provenance of Earth Science Observational Data Products
LANCE AMSR-E Status
Meet Dizzy the Distometer: Creating a character and telling his story using ESRI Story Maps to increase use of Global Precipitation Measurement Ground Validation precipitation data
Metadata: Quality vs. Quantity
MIDAS: An Agent Based Data Transcoding Services Framework
Mining and Modeling in the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)
Mining Earth Science Data
Near Real-time Distribution of ISS LIS Lightning Data
Near Real-Time Distribution of Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) ISS LIS Lightning Data available at the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
Near-real-time processing for Aqua AMSR-E data
New Technologies for Improving Earth Science Data Usability
On-Board Mining in the Sensor Web
OOSTethys / Oceans IE Service Registry Based on Catalog Service for Web
Passive Microwave - ESIP
Passive Microwave Data Set Management Workshop
Powering Transplant Professional Collaborations with Web and Mobile Apps
Processing Direct Broadcast Data to Reduce Latency of Aqua AMSR-E Products
Product Delivery Record Server Data Transfer at the AMSR-E SIPS
Promoting Science Data through Innovative Information Systems
Prototyping a knowledge integration framework to solve science problems
Provenance as a Guide to Understanding Science Data
Provenance Collection and Display for the AMSR-E SIPS
Provenance Collection and Display Tools for the AMSR-E SIPS
Real-time Storm Detection and Weather Forecast Activation through Data Mining and Events Processing
Report from the Passive Microwave Data Set Management Workshop
SANDS - Sediment Analysis Network for Decision Support
Science Data Processing for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System
SCOOP Data Management: A Standards-based Distributed Information System for Coastal Data Management
SCOOP Data Management: A Standards-based Distributed System for Coastal Data and Modeling
Semanitcs and Earth Science Markup Language
Service Oriented Architecture for Harvesting Distributed Data Repositories
Subsetting AMSR-E Data
Syntactic and Semantic Metadata Integration for Science Data Use
Talkoot Software Appliance for Collaborative Science
Talkoot: Software Tool to Create Collaboratories for Earth Science
The 2nd Generation Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM) Development
The Effects of Data Storage Paradigms on Custom Order Processing
The Role of Data Mining in Earth Science Data Interoperability
The Sensor Management for Applied Research Technologies (SMART) Project
The Use of LANCE Imagery Products to Investigate Hazards and Disasters
User Resources and Support for the ISS LIS Science Data at NASA’s Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC)
Using ESML in a Semantic Web Approach for Improved Earth Science Data Usability
Using Sensor Web Protocols for Environmental Data Acquisition and Management
V0 IMS Server Cookbook
Visualization of On-demand Virtual Data Products in a Distributed Environment