Developer Spotlight: Earth Science Monitoring with Satellite Imagery

Sangram Ganguly, a senior research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center shares how they are analyzing satellite imagery with deep learning to gain a better understanding of our planet.
As a founding member of NASA Earth Exchange (NEX), which utilizes NASA’s GPU-accelerated Pleiades supercomputer, Ganguly helped develop the collaboration platform that 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.
“We recently got the DGX system which is extremely, extremely useful for us because we have complex (convolutional neural network) models,” said Ganguly because satellite images are getting larger and larger – about 1GB per image. “When we want to stack several of those models, we need a high-memory, big GPU machine.”

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