Working Group: Data Products and Access

1. Working Group: Data Products and Access Robert Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Terrestrial Ecology Meeting October 6, 2011

2. Major challenges Data stewardship: • archiving research data and data products; • creating custom products for priority end uses; • selecting new products to produce; • ATBD reviews, and • setting priorities Providing appropriate and useful documentation of errors and uncertainties associated with our data, data products, analyses, and model results. Data WG October 6, 2011

3. Questions • What data products would advance TE research goals? • long-term data records that need to be created or better supported • enhancing existing data products (EOS and PI-led efforts) • new mission and cross-mission data products (current and future) • non-NASA data sources? • How could NASA invest resources to make data sets easier to prepare, access, manipulate, and combine with other sources of information or models? • Investing in the data life cycle Data WG October 6, 2011

4. Data/Analysis Products Distribution PI-driven Data Products “Question Based” Project Computing / Distribution Facilities MEASURES Earth System Data Records (ESDRs) “Parameter Based” ESIP Federation (GLCF, EOS-Webster) EOS Standard Products “Instrument Based” Science Data Centers (DAACs, SIPS, MODAPS) … ASTER AIRS MODIS MISR ACCESS Projects (Technology Infusion) Courtesy of Jeff Masek

5. Data Products and Data Access Working Group: • Provided an issue is relevant to TE field campaigns and of importance to the TE community, the WG will have the ability to identify a new issue for its consideration and develop the agenda to address it, for example: • Recommend inclusion in a new NASA solicitation (e.g., MEASURES, ACCESS, etc.) • Establish an informal consortium • Other approaches Data WG October 6, 2011

6. Working Group Members Ex Officio: George Hurtt, Fred Hummerich, Jeff Masek Data WG October 6, 2011

7. Process: Joint Data WG and Model WG • Identified and ranked 28 new data products • Identified and ranked 15 items “investing in the data life cycle” • Did not develop agenda to address these rankings Data WG October 6, 2011

8. What data products would advance TE research goals? Data WG October 6, 2011

9. How could the NASA invest resources to make data sets easier to prepare, access, manipulate, and combine with other sources of information or models? Data WG October 6, 2011

10. How could the NASA invest resources to make data sets easier to prepare, access, manipulate, and combine with other sources of information or models? Data WG October 6, 2011

11. Data WG Recommendations (Provisional) • TE should develop data products: • High resolution climate data (1-km and 3-hourly) • In situ observations for validation • Global land cover & history of land-use • Observations to evaluate models (I-LAMB) • Expand temporal coverage of Global Fire Emissions • TE should invest in • Data liaison between investigator and DAAC • Characterization of accuracy and uncertainty • Community standards (variables and data files) • Timely access to airborne data • Data WG should continue to work closely with Field and Model WG • Eventually disband and merge with those two WGs Data WG October 6, 2011

12. Data Breakout Group

13. Additional Material Data Breakout Group

14. Questions Addressed • What additional long-term data records need to be created or better supported to advance TE research goals? • How could the NASA / TE Program invest resources to make data sets easier to access, manipulate, and combine with other sources of information and/or models? • What are the priorities for maintaining/enhancing existing data products, including standard EOS data sets as well as those derived from PI-led efforts? • What are the priorities for improving access to key "external" (non-NASA) data sources, including international inventory and remote sensing data? • What are the priorities for new mission and cross-mission data products emerging from the Decadal Survey era? Data WG September 4, 2010

15. What new data products would advance TE research goals? Data WG

16. How could the NASA's TE program invest resources to make data sets easier to prepare, access, manipulate, and combine with other sources of information and/or models? Data WG

17. What new data products would advance TE research goals? (1/2) Data WG

18. What new data products would advance TE research goals? (2/2) Data WG

19. How could the NASA's TE program make data sets easier to prepare, access, manipulate, and combine with other sources of information and/or models? Data WG

20. Agenda • Introduction • WG Goals / Charter • Discussion Data WG September 4, 2010