Annapureddy (2026) Next-Generation Glacier Monitoring: Leveraging Cloud Computing for Climate Insights

Identification

• Journal: Lecture notes in networks and systems
• Year: 2026
• Date: 2026-01-01
• Authors: Venkat Reddy Annapureddy
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09825-2_41

Research Groups

• Rocket Mortgage LLC, Detroit, MI, USA (Venkat Reddy Annapureddy)

Short Summary

This paper presents a scalable, cloud-native framework for global glacier monitoring, integrating advanced satellite imaging and automated processing to transform petabytes of data into near-real-time velocity measurements, enabling high-resolution spatial and temporal analysis for climate insights.

Objective

• To develop and present a scalable, cloud-native framework for global glacier monitoring to address the demand for innovative approaches to analyze Earth's cryosphere and advance climate science.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Global (glacier monitoring)
• Temporal Scale: Near-real-time, high-resolution temporal analysis

Methodology and Data

• Models used: Cloud-native framework, automated processing pipelines, intelligent data structures, serverless access tools.
• Data sources: Advanced satellite imaging, petabytes of satellite data.

Main Results

• The developed system transforms petabytes of satellite data into near-real-time glacier velocity measurements.
• It enables high-resolution spatial and temporal analysis of glacier dynamics.
• The framework eliminates traditional data-handling barriers through cloud-optimized formats and serverless access tools.
• It provides researchers with rapid and reproducible workflows for glacier monitoring.

Contributions

• Introduces a novel scalable, cloud-native framework for global glacier monitoring.
• Redefines Earth observation by advancing climate science through seamless data integration, open-source methodologies, and user-friendly analytics platforms.
• Offers a solution to overcome traditional data-handling barriers in large-scale Earth observation.

Funding

• Not specified in the provided text.

Citation

@article{Annapureddy2026NextGeneration,
  author = {Annapureddy, Venkat Reddy},
  title = {Next-Generation Glacier Monitoring: Leveraging Cloud Computing for Climate Insights},
  journal = {Lecture notes in networks and systems},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-09825-2_41},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-09825-2_41}
}