| ESE Data and Services
As part of NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise, the EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) manages and distributes more than 1,800 science data products, covering a wide range of physical, geophysical, biochemical, and other parameters through a consortium of nine distributed active archive centers or data centers. This consortium includes the Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC (ASF DAAC),GSFC Earth Sciences DAAC(GES DAAC),Global Hydrology Resource Center(GHRC),Langley Research Center DAAC (LaRC DAAC),Land Processes DAAC(LP DAAC),National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC(NSIDC DAAC),Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC(ORNL DAAC),Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC), and the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center(SEDAC).The centers process, archive, document and distribute data from NASA’s past and current Earth science research satellites and field measurement programs. Each center serves a specific Earth science discipline and provides its user community with data products, information, services, and tools unique to its particular science. Earth Observatory
NASA’s Earth Observatory provides a freely accessible Web publication where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about Earth’s climate and environmental changes. The site is useful to the public, media and educators. Earth scientists and science writers from all NASA centers, as well as all agencies and universities affiliated with NASA’s ESE, submit articles and images for publication on this site. Earth Observing System (EOS)
The EOS is the centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. The EOS Program comprises a science element, data management system, and space component consisting of a series of coordinated satellites for long-term global observations of Earth’s land, biosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and oceans. EOS Data Gateway (EDG)
The EDG is the online search-and-order system for Earth science data products from NASA and affiliated centers. The EDG system allows users to search data holdings,retrieve high-level descriptions of data sets, view browse images, and place orders for data products. Earth Science Enterprise (ESE)
NASA’s ESE is dedicated to understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment. ESE’s programs study the interactions among Earth's land, atmosphere, cryosphere, oceans, and biota to advance the new discipline of Earth System Science, with a near-term emphasis on global climate change. ESE’s research contributes to the development of sound environmental policy and economic investment decisions. ESIP Federation
The Federation is made up of partners from Government Agencies, National Laboratories, Universities, Nonprofit Organizations, and commercial businesses. By working together the partners are ensuring that quality scientific data and information are made available to a wide community of scientists and nonscientists alike. Type1 ESIPs are primarily distributors of satellite and ground-based data sets, as well as standardized products derived from those data. Type2 ESIPs provide data and information products, technology, or services aimed primarily at the Earth science and research communities. Type3 ESIPs are primarily commercial companies engaged in developing tools for Earth Science. Type4 ESIPs are sponsoring agencies of the Federation. Global Change Master Directory
NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
holds more than 20,000 descriptions of Earth science
data sets and services covering all aspects of Earth
and environmental sciences. Users can search by
controlled keywords or free-text, create or modify
and validate their own descriptions using an intuitive
online metadata authoring tool, search using customized
portals for focused science communities, or use
query refinements for specific user interests of
data discovery.
HDF-EOS and Related Tools
HDF-EOS and Related Tools: The HDF EOS Tools and Information web site serves as a dynamic central repository listing software packages available for purchase or free of charge, including new tools and updated versions. The site enables users to filter the software list by tool type (format converter, visualization application, etc.), platform (Sun, SGI, etc.) and data application (swath, MISR, etc.). Top of Page NCSA HDF Home Page
The HDF project involves the development and support of software and file formats for scientific data management. The HDF software includes I/O libraries and tools for analyzing, visualizing, and converting scientific data. There are two HDF formats, HDF (4.x and previous releases) and HDF5. These formats are completely different and NOT compatible. ( NOTE: There are no plans to drop support for HDF 4.x ) The HDF software is developed and supported by NCSA and is freely available. It is used world-wide in many fields, including Environmental Science, Neutron Scattering, Non-Destructive Testing, and Aerospace, to name a few. Scientific projects that use HDF include NASA's HDF-EOS project, and the DOE's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. Remote Sensing Tutorial
The Applied Information Sciences Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center developed a remote sensing tutorial to serve as a primer for the new user as well as a teaching tool for the educational community. The Remote Sensing Tutorial is comprehensive, diverse, and up-to-date exposition and review of the history and accomplishments of both NASA’s space program and similar endeavors being made by other nations since the era of Sputnik and Explorer. The tutorial explains remote sensing through educational devices such as numerous questions and quizzes, exposure to fundamental principles, and several applications that contribute to learning. Scientific Visualization Studio
The mission of the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) is to facilitate scientific inquiry and outreach within NASA programs through visualization. The SVS works closely with scientists to create visualization products, systems, and processes to promte a greater understanding of the Earth and space science research activitities at Goddard Space Flight Center and within the NASA Research Community. The SVS site offers a searchable database of high-resolution scientific animations and data imagery. Visible Earth
Visible Earth is a searchable directory of NASA's Earth science-related images, animations, and data visualizations. Top of Page |
