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Value-added Data Services at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services CenterThe NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), in addition to serving the Earth Science community as one of the major Distributed Active Archives Centers (DAACs), provides much more than just data. Among the value-added services available to general users are subsetting data spatially and/or by parameter, online analysis (to avoid downloading unnecessarily all the data), and assistance in obtaining data from other centers. Services available to data producers and high-volume users include consulting on building new products with standard formats and metadata and construction of data management systems. A particularly useful service is data processing at the DISC (i.e., close to the input data) with the users algorithm. This can take a number of different forms: as a configuration-managed algorithm within the main processing stream; as a stand-alone program next to the on-line data storage; as build-it-yourself code within the Near-Archive Data Mining (NADM) system; or as an on-the-fly analysis with simple algorithms embedded into the web-based tools. Partnerships between the GES DISC and scientists, both producers and users, allow the scientists to concentrate on science, while the GES DISC handles the data management, e.g., formats, integration, and data processing. The existing data management infrastructure at the GES DISC supports a wide spectrum of options: from simple data support to sophisticated on-line analysis tools, producing economies of scale and rapid time-to-deploy. At the same time, such partnerships allow the GES DISC to serve the user community more efficiently and to better prioritize on-line holdings. Several examples of successful partnerships are described in the presentation.
Document ID
20040105663
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Leptoukh, Gregory G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Alcott, Gary T.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kempler, Steven J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Lynnes, Christopher S.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Vollmer, Bruce E.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Meeting Information
Meeting: AGU/CGU/SEG/EEGS 2004 Joint Assembly
Location: Montreal
Country: Canada
Start Date: May 17, 2004
End Date: May 21, 2004
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union, Canadian Geophysical Union, Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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