Elizabeth City State University
http://www.ecsu.edu
Elizabeth City State University is an institution of higher learning. Located in Elizabeth City it is the center for the preceeding information. ECSU is a four year university that provides students with the talents they will need for the challenging world.

Center of Exellence in Remote Sensing Education Research (CERSER)
http://cerser.ecsu.edu
The Center of Exellence in Remote Sensing Education Research that is based at Elizabeth City State University. CERSER has the capibilities of communicating with space everyday. CERSER has several branched programs including Undergraduate Research Programs and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Center for Remote Sensing in Ice Sheets ( CReSiS)
https://www.cresis.ku.edu/
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is a Science and Technology Center established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2005, with the mission of developing new technologies and computer models to measure and predict the response sea level change to the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

Hadoop
http://hadoop.apache.org/
The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

MapReduce
http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key. Many real world tasks are expressible in this model, as shown in the paper.