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NASA'S Earth Science Data Stewardship ActivitiesNASA has been collecting Earth observation data for over 50 years using instruments on board satellites, aircraft and ground-based systems. With the inception of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Program in 1990, NASA established the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project and initiated development of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). A set of Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) was established at locations based on science discipline expertise. Today, EOSDIS consists of 12 DAACs and 12 Science Investigator-led Processing Systems (SIPS), processing data from the EOS missions, as well as the Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership mission, and other satellite and airborne missions. The DAACs archive and distribute the vast majority of data from NASA’s Earth science missions, with data holdings exceeding 12 petabytes The data held by EOSDIS are available to all users consistent with NASA’s free and open data policy, which has been in effect since 1990. The EOSDIS archives consist of raw instrument data counts (level 0 data), as well as higher level standard products (e.g., geophysical parameters, products mapped to standard spatio-temporal grids, results of Earth system models using multi-instrument observations, and long time series of Earth System Data Records resulting from multiple satellite observations of a given type of phenomenon). EOSDIS data stewardship responsibilities include ensuring that the data and information content are reliable, of high quality, easily accessible, and usable for as long as they are considered to be of value.
Document ID
20150021292
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Lowe, Dawn R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Murphy, Kevin J.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Ramapriyan, Hampapuram
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Lanham, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
November 17, 2015
Publication Date
November 3, 2015
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Geosciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN27796
Meeting Information
Meeting: PV 2015 Conference
Location: Darmstadt
Country: Germany
Start Date: November 3, 2015
End Date: November 5, 2015
Sponsors: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG15HQ01C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
metadata
data stewardship
Earth Science
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