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NASA Agency Report. Ken McDonald NASA May 2002 ken.mcdonald@gsfc.nasa.gov. Current Operational System. EOSDIS EOSDIS Core System (ECS) is supporting Landsat 7 and TERRA missions and in final preparations for AQUA. Significant enhancements to capabilities soon to be delivered:
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NASA Agency Report Ken McDonald NASA May 2002 ken.mcdonald@gsfc.nasa.gov
Current Operational System • EOSDIS • EOSDIS Core System (ECS) is supporting Landsat 7 and TERRA missions and in final preparations for AQUA. • Significant enhancements to capabilities soon to be delivered: • ECHO - metadata clearinghouse enabling development of custom clients. • Data Pools - readily accessible, online repositories of popular subsets of EOS data. • ECS contract to end in October - EOSDIS Maintenance and Development (EMD) contract to pick up after transition period.
Other ESE Data System Initiatives • Initial phase of the Federation Experiment has been completed. • Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) awards have or will soon expire. • Type 2 ESIPS (Science Data Providers) have been completed. • Type 3 ESIPS (Applications Providers) in final year of award. • Plans for follow-on activities evolving • Smaller set of Type 2 awards is planned. • Original plan for Type 3 ESIPS was that they would be self-sustaining.
New Program Initiative • SEEDS - Strategic Evolution of ESE Data Systems (formerly called NewDISS) • Goal is to formulate an approach for NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise to develop or evolve data and information systems to meet future needs. • Concept envisions a more distributed, heterogeneous collection of data system and service providers with greater community involvement. • Formulation Team has initiated series of study tasks: • Levels of service and cost modeling • Near-term standards recommendations • Standards and interfaces process • Reference architecture and reuse • Data life-cycle (Long-term archive issues) • Accountability and metrics