NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) represents a new collaboration platform for the Earth science community that provides a mechanism for scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing. NEX combines state-of-the-art supercomputing, Earth system modeling, workflow management, NASA remote sensing data feeds, and a social networking platform to deliver a complete work environment in which users can explore and analyze large datasets, run modeling codes, collaborate on new or existing projects, and quickly share results among the Earth science communities.
Mission Statement
The objective of the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) is to bring scientists together with the tools, massive global datasets, and supercomputers necessary to accelerate research in Earth systems science and global change.
NEX Work Environment
The work environment provides NEX members with community supported modeling, analysis and visualization software in conjunction with datasets that are common to the Earth systems and large-scale computing power together in a flexible framework. NEX reduces the need for duplicated efforts in downloading data, developing pre-processing software tools, and expanding local compute infrastructures—while accelerating fundamental research, development of new applications, and reducing project costs.
The social networking platform provides a forum for NEX members to efficiently share datasets, results, algorithms, codes, and expertise with other members. Since all members' work environments reside on the collaborative platform, sharing may be done without the transfer of large volumes of data or the porting of complex codes—making NEX an ideal platform for building upon and exchanging research, and fostering innovation.
For more information, see the NEX Website.
Project News Bites
Engineering Risk Assessment
The ERA team recently delivered the final report on their study of the historical safety and reliability trends of liquid and solid propellant stages, which will help NASA to better define the safety and mission success attributes of rocket propulsion technology options for future launch systems.
NASA Earth Exchange
The NEX network path from the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to the NAS facility in Silicon Valley, is yielding data transfer rates of up to 1 gigabit per second.
Fundamental Aeronautics
CFD experts are modeling a flapping fruit fly wing to emulate bird flight, as part of a joint research project with Stanford and other universities to develop a micro aerial vehicle.
