ITS_LIVE: A Cloud-Native Approach to Monitoring Glaciers From Space

NASA's ITS_LIVE project delivers information on global glacier dynamics and provides historical context for climate change with a record of how every glacier in the world has evolved over decades of satellite observation. To handle petabytes of data in the satellite archives and a constant influx of new observations, the project has adopted a cloud-native approach that is scalable, performant, user friendly, and embraces transparent and collaborative code development. As every discipline of Earth science is being transformed by a new era of remote sensing and cloud computing, ITS_LIVE offers a progressive approach to maximizing scientific advancements through open science.