HR: 0800h
AN: SF21A-0022    [Abstracts]
TI: Tools for EOS Data and Metadata
AU: * Yang, J
EM: jyang@ertcorp.com
AF: Earth Resources Technology, Inc., 8106 Stayton Drive, Jessup, MD 20794 United States
AU: Bane, B
EM: bob.bane@gst.com
AF: Global Science and Technology, Inc., 7855 Walker Drive, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AU: Yin, Z
EM: zhangshi.yin@gst.com
AF: Global Science and Technology, Inc., 7855 Walker Drive, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AU: Rabi, M
EM: muhammd@comcast.net
AF: Global Science and Technology, Inc., 7855 Walker Drive, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AU: Ullman, R
EM: ricahrd.e.ullman@nasa.gov
AF: Richard Ullman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20770
AB: We have developed a series of data and metadata tools over the past several years to enhance the usability of NASA EOS data for Earth science research and applications. Those tools include 1) data format and metadata format conversion or translation tools, 2) XML representations of NASA HDF-EOS data and ECS data model, and related utility tools, 3) data and metadata viewing, validation, and update tools, and 4) a web-service-based HDF-EOS server for data discovery and access. We have also recently conducted a pathfinder project of HDF-EOS4 to HDF-EOS5 transition for a MODIS and an AIRS product to find a path (or obstacles) to transition EOS data products from HDF-EOS4 to HDF-EOS5, as new and future Earth observation satellite data products (such as Aura and NPOESS) are in HDF-EOS5 or HDF5 format. This poster presents various usability tools we have developed for NASA EOS data and metadata. Use cases of these tools for support of the research and application community and EOS missions are illustrated.
DE: 0910 Data processing
DE: 0933 Remote sensing
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting