Enhancing remote sensing education with GeoBrain cyberinfrastructure

Modern geoscience and remote sensing (RS) are increasingly data-intensive. Cyberinfrastructure (CI) plays an essential role in data-intensive geoscience and RS research and education. GeoBrain is one of NASA's significant investments in CI for facilitating data-intensive Earth science (ES) and RS research and education. The GeoBrain CI, which makes large data and computing resources interoperable and sharable over the Web by adopting and developing the latest Web service, geospatial interoperability and related information technologies, provides an innovative approach to data-intensive geospatial computing. This paper addresses the GeoBrain solution to major issues in data-intensive ES/RS education and illustrates how use of GeoBrain could greatly enhance ES/RS education.